Originally Posted by merlinextraligh

Ok at the risk of being labled an insensitive msyognistic, neandrathal, I'll disagree with that.

Clearly, there are threads from time to time that treat women as sex objects. If those are offensive to you, they are pretty obvious and easy to avoid.

The forum, however, is very deferential to female posters. I do not recall in 4 years, a female poster being abused because she was female. Conversely, I've routinely observed novice women being given much more slack when they make naive posts, than novice men are given with similar posts.

There is definitely an element of irreverence, and sarcasm in the Road Forum that some find offensive. That does not mean however that there is hostility aimed at women posters. Everyone in the Road Forum has to take things with a grain of salt or they are going to be continuously pissed off by somebody about something, regardless of their gender.