Has the Yahoo Gender & Women's Studies forum become an extension of the Singles & Dating forum?

Question

And why?

Answer 1

More like a dating section, people bullying as a way of attracting attention from the women. Most of the questions seem to pertain to another category. Where are the Gender Studies questions? I find so few of them.  

Answer 2

An extension?  No.  Is there considerable overlap between GWS and S&D topics?  Yes, most definitely.

A huge problem with Singles & Dating is that the dominant demographic consists of middle school and high school kids who ask lame questions, give lamer answers, and do so with half-literate text message-speak.  Single adults who seek help with relationships (or lack thereof) are ill-served by the poor signal-to-noise ratio.

Since many of the dating problems in the U.S. stem from the Battle of the Sexes, GWS is probably as good an alternative as any at Y!A to S&D.  The results aren't much better for the questioner, especially for a guy asking questions at a forum dominated by feminists, but at least the answers are more literate and "grown-up".

I believe that Singles & Dating should be split into two forums, one for the 13-20 age group and the other for 21+.  That may help.

Answer 3

yes you will find a few of the top contributers have crawled out from under their rocks to take up residence

Answer 4

I might ask the same: why? Who has tried to date whom?

Answer 5

There must be simmering sexual tension for some posters here.  The whole gender issue brings out the raw emotion to want to reproduce.

Answer 6

No. We just have a few anomalies here and there.