Women Needed Here!

[Historian]

Moderators and Forum Members:

Is there any possibility that we can do something to successfully attract female posters to this forum? It would, I am sure, widen the scope of the subject matter as well as enrich the quality of the discussions here.

I have long believed that we men have been the single biggest hindrance to Jamaica’s growth and development, starting with our male dominated governments since 1962, but not limited to them (or to politicians in general). A brief comparison of both genders and their achievements has added to this long-held “male-responsibility-for-our-decline” viewpoint of mine.

Take, to cite just one example of the relevance of women, the male-dominated arena of sports. Since the liberation of our women into active participation in sports, the results have been satisfying, in fact, often extremely gratifying (no pun intended, of course).

So, we find that Jamaica’s most successful team sports is the women’s netball team (ranked number four in the world at this time), while our women’s soccer teams do more damage within the Caribbean region (the islands) more consistently and with more remarkable results than do their male counterparts. In athletics and swimming, the same thing stands, as in the pre-Asafa Powell, pre-Usain Bolt years, and I’m referring to after Jamaican women became actively involved in athletics in the 1980s, the women consistently turned in more impressive results. (Track and field is my favorite sport, so there is no need to remind me of pre-1980s Jamaican women achievers like Marilyn Neufville, Lilieth Hodges, Vilma Charlton and Una Morris.)

In education, we find a similar situation. In fact, the immense disparity in the numbers of males compared to females enrolling in universities and colleges in Jamaica is so great it’s almost frightening! (A similar remarkable gender disparity situation exists throughout the entire region, without exception.) Of course, as leadership goes, this makes it all the more unfortunate that so few women are to be found in our parliament.

Women, I have found, are impacting Jamaica and other regional states in immense ways, despite the thinly-disguised sexism that exists in our part of the world (although the situation for women here is supremely greater than that for women in Africa, in the Far East, and in the East).

We need women on this forum, as this will only strengthen the content/quality and widen the scope of our discussions!

[Assasin]

Big up to all the women who pass through especially to my beloved Sista Portia, MdmeX, Princess, Shelly Thunder, Rosa and all the wonderful ladies that bless the forum yah.

[Mosiah]

There was a significant few in the aftermath of 1998, who were really loved and admired by the Forum in general. I can only opine that perhaps they were indeed wagonists and only another successful World Cup run can bring them back.

Now, I use that "wagonist" term not in an insulting way.

Then again, maybe they are the smart ones, who find better things to do with their time than argue back and forth in this rum bar, while Rome burns.

[Historian]

Agreed!

Then again, maybe they are the smart ones, who find better things to do with their time than argue back and forth in this rum bar, while Rome burns.

Statement of the week, and oh so true!!! LMAO

Big up to all the women who pass through especially to my beloved Sista Portia, MdmeX, Princess, Shelly Thunder, Rosa and all the wonderful ladies that bless the forum yah.

“Poor” MdmeX apparently ceased posting because there are no other female voices to add that invaluable gender perspective. I remember both Princess and Portia with fondness, as I always thought that both ladies were very smart, and always made interesting or enjoyable posts. I still recall a poem Princess had written about other posters on this forum.

Portia’s sister Karen used to post here occasionally, and on Willi’s site as well. One of Shelly Thunder’s music video was given frequent rotation on “Tempo” music channel during the good old days when it was “MTV Tempo” (before the Trinidadians “captured” that channel).

It actually took me some time (a few years) to realize that Rosa was a woman.

[Sickko]

A few still post on the other ReggaeBoyz site and some come and go on the track and field site even though they are trying their best to run them away...

[MdmeX]

Historian - MdmeX is still here. Just on a little sabbatical

[Sensi]

I don't know if you are male or female but if you have been on this site as long as many of us, then you would have known that they are all welcomed here whenever and whatever they post, as we here have always shown love to our female posters...after all it is free and open. However, I believe that we here have some darn good discussion with or without any imput from our beloved females and both sexes should not need either to have rich and substantial discussions.

[Sensi]

Bredrin, easy man...don't you think that we are also smart to not use our time to gossip about meaningless stuff? BTW Who's that behind you pulling those strings bredrin? Watch yuhself King!

[Muadib]

We probably need to add more womancentric forums.. like sewing and cooking and ice-skating.. is muss a man create dis site..

[Don1]

We probably need to add more womancentric forums.. like sewing and cooking and ice-skating.. is muss a man create dis site..

Spoken like a true Rear Admiral. LOL!!!