It's not that the forum (or the road portion of it) is actively hostile to individual female posters, it's that the environment that has been created is latently hostile toward women in general. I lurk here a lot, but I don't post very often as a result of the general attitude displayed on not all, but many, of the threads. I get great info from lurking, but this is not a place that I am 'welcome' to actively participate in.