Re. Gender differences in cyberspace

[Geoff Hart <geoff-h -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA>]

 Gretchen Toth posted long excerpts from an article that
 proposed the existence of a gender bias in cyberspace. I'd
 have to agree with Gretchen that the authors obviously
 hadn't spent much time on our list. Gretchen may attract a
 little flame for the "off topic" post (enjoy it,
 Gretchen... it's cold out there today!), but I'd love to
 follow up on one of her questions: do men and women process
 information differently? This _does_ have clear
 implications for techwhirling, given that roughly 50% of
 our audiences fall into one or the other category. (For the
 rest of you... they're resurrecting the old "Invaders" SF
 series on FOX, I believe... we know you're out there!)

 I'm a firm advocate of the "we are fascinated by each other
 because we never understand each other" school of thought
 on relations between the sexes, but to be honest, I have
 nothing beyond anecdotal evidence to support this belief.
 I've seen men fail to understand men (and women fail to
 understand women) just as often as this occurs in
 between-sex communication. So, to reiterate Gretchen's
 question: anyone out there got good, hard evidence for
 differences? And what does this mean for our writing?

 --Geoff Hart    @8^{)}
 geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca

 Disclaimer: If I didn't commit it in print in one of our
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