Male erotica in the LGBT group: Why now? What's changed?

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60. Your answers weren't at all clear.

Your first paragraphs make no sense. I am not even sure what you are trying to convey.

Let me explain how I see this group. It is not just a political group, it is also a personal group. There are many threads in this group that are more suited for the Lounge, but they aren't locked because this is a community. As such, there are a variety of subgroups. This group cannot, nor will it be, the group everyone wants. I will include the "The Man, the Boy and the Donkey" fable at the end of this post to drive the next point home. I feel you and others are making this Molehill Country in regards to this topic because this isn't an everyday occurance, it isn't a frequent issue from what I can see. Some people seem to want this to a "poltics only" group; it isn't going to happen, anymore than it is going to turn into a gay.com chatroom.

As for wondering where the women are? No, I don't really wonder all that much because people will post as they want to post. I don't wonder where all the ally posters are, I don't wonder where all the bisexual posters are...do you? What about non-white posters? Your implication this group is unwelcoming to women is flat out offensive! Where are YOUR topic starter threads? Some people just don't post threads but rather reply. I don't post thread starters often, but I do reply in a number of threads. I will give you that there is gender inequality in our community, as well as the population-at-large. But quite honestly, I think you are looking for a problem where none exists!

A MAN and his son were once going with their Donkey to market. As they were walking along by its side a countryman passed them and said: “You fools, what is a Donkey for but to ride upon?”

So the Man put the Boy on the Donkey and they went on their way. But soon they passed a group of men, one of whom said: “See that lazy youngster, he lets his father walk while he rides.”

So the Man ordered his Boy to get off, and got on himself. But they hadn’t gone far when they passed two women, one of whom said to the other: “Shame on that lazy lout to let his poor little son trudge along.”

Well, the Man didn’t know what to do, but at last he took his Boy up before him on the Donkey. By this time they had come to the town, and the passers-by began to jeer and point at them. The Man stopped and asked what they were scoffing at. The men said: “Aren’t you ashamed of yourself for overloading that poor Donkey of yours—you and your hulking son?”

The Man and Boy got off and tried to think what to do. They thought and they thought, till at last they cut down a pole, tied the Donkey’s feet to it, and raised the pole and the Donkey to their shoulders. They went along amid the laughter of all who met them till they came to Market Bridge, when the Donkey, getting one of his feet loose, kicked out and caused the Boy to drop his end of the pole. In the struggle the Donkey fell over the bridge, and his fore-feet being tied together he was drowned.

“That will teach you,” said an old man who had followed them:

“PLEASE ALL, AND YOU WILL PLEASE NONE.”

Source: http://www.bartleby.com/17/1/62.html