Best example I have to explain it is that there is a guy who works at fabric store by my house that is the greatest knitter you have ever seen.

I mean he does such complicated geometrical patterns, you would think it's a Persian rug.

I'm always in there buying canvas, and he never fails to amaze me.

According to him, he is the only male knitter on KnitSide.com (or whatever) forum.

He says he has entered many contests around the country, but when the judges (always female) see he is a man, his work never wins anything.

When he has his daughters enter his work, they take second or first place every time.

I call out Hava Berman, you go girl!!!!

She builds Pinball machines and does roller derby.

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The women should just enter the men's tournaments and clean them out!

She will be back.

Molly is as tough as a junkyard pitbull.

Was there anything preventing the ladies from simply playing in the men's competition?

That's the best thing women can do if they want to have a larger footprint in pinball - get out in front!

1. Pick a user name that proudly shows you are a woman!

Pinball_Polly, Girl Loves Waffles, Pin_Princess ..... Don't hide behind a man's name or go unnoticed with a gender neutral name.

2. Make helpful Posts!

Post of how you fixed something, or how to repair a backglass, or raised money for Children's Pinball or won a tournament.

3. Compete and beat the men!

Pinball (like darts or billiards) is not a game of strength, so don't let the men cheat you out of a prize - compete in the Men's League.

Nothing lets the "old boys" know who's the boss better than taking their money.

4. Be the "face" of local pinball.

Become the public interface for your local club.

When the local news show needs to fill a "public interest" slot, they would much rather use a woman's face than the usual 400 pound pinballler who looks like Jabba the Hut in four day old clothes.

And if you have the ability to do big hair - this is your chance to do big hair. If you watch the news, look how big hair dominates the air time. Oddly amazing.

Usually the men smell so bad, you can't believe their moms let them out of the basement for the weekend.

Never said I was a spokesperson.

I simply suggested ideas.

That's what a forum is supposed to be, an exchange of different ideas and opinions.

People can use them or ignore them; or even just keep them in the back of their mind.

Maybe that comes out in online gaming (I've never seen it. It seems like 1/2 of all user names are OhMyGoddes, Miyu, Yuna.....or some combination like that ), but I guarantee that nowhere on Pinside has any female member been asked to "show us your tits". The mods would kill that in 2 seconds.

Don't confuse getting out front with getting respect.

In my town there is a single female garbage truck driver.

She is not the leader of the union, or anything like that, she is just a driver.

Yet, every time there is a strike or too much snow to collect or some other news, she is the goto woman for the media.

She is not a "Large Marge" or any other "female truck driver cliche", just a well spoken woman in a male dominated field - makes for great TV.

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You are very confused.

We were talking about women speaking out.

I was not talking about them being treated badly here.

Exactly.

Show me any posts where a woman is being treated worse than the men are treating each other.

No one is talking about YOUR posts.

You responded to MY post, when you started on this crazy tangent.

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Start a fresh line of reasoning, not quoting my totally different subject.

If anyone wants to discuss it with you, I'm sure they will.

Sheesh..........

It's Child's ass.

If she wants to change it, let her decide.

Quit giving a hard time to women.

She will be back, next time as Pancake Flipper, Drain Drama, or Poly Plunger (or something like that).

That is an awful situation.

But, your husband did the hardest (but correct) thing in not just decking the guy. I tip my hat to him.

I doubt I would have had his restraint, you married a good man.

Yes, or it goes completely the other way.

At the Little Caesars near my hotel, the male manager was bragging to me that he only hires good looking girls.

He will take a man's application, but then once they are out the door, he puts it in the trash.

Give me some examples of what lessons men could learn from the past on Pinside; that would apply here.

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I'll post them.

I don't give a ship what anyone thinks.

I'm not sure there is any actual **lesson** there.

So 3 people were offended and did not attend? Good, those people are probably not mature enough to be out in the wild.

I'm a Jew. There are tons of jokes at the expense of Jews on HBO shows. Even if I'm somehow offended by a joke, am I going to cancel HBO??? Of course not.

A comedian on HBO says:

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So I'm stuck at a wedding seated between a Rabbi and a Priest.

A 5 year old boy bends over to tie his shoe in front of us.

The Priest leans over to us and says "Wow, I'd like to screw that kid."

The Rabbi shrugs and asks "Out of what?"

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Am I offended? Hell no.

There will always be somebody offended by something. That does not mean there is anything wrong.

If you are hanging out at The Exit, you are automatically a lightweight bad girl.

Even though she is now a GILF, at least she can marry whoever she loves - celebration day today!

Yes, she HAD to go.

It was the only way to create a 400 post thread of more drama.

She is already back under another new name and the train kept a rollin.....

Yep

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We need more women interest in pinball because the more people interested in our hobby, the higher the prices on all the games become.

If we could get 10% more women in the hobby, we could count on a 30% increase in the price of used games.

Pinball, is the anti-chick.

I just did a search on the dating site PlentyofFish within 500 miles of my zip code for pre-menopauseal women (18-40).

Not a single hit on the world "Pinball".

Not a single hit on the terms "home theater", "audiophile", "ham radio", "model rocketry".......

Do not look to pinball to solve your dating needs.

I just searched Plentyofish for some other hobbies that chicks are not into

Not a single hit on:

Numismatics, Amateur Astronomy, Blacksmithing, Whittling, or Auto Restoration.

One or two hits on:

Chess and Tropical Fish

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We just have to face that fact that there are many hobbies that do not necessarily appeal to young females.

That's all very obvious.

What Azmodus was saying was that he is looking for "available" pinball women.

I'm sure there are female astronomers who do important work in their fields, but it's just not likely you are going to find a pool of "available" female astronomers, as when you search on the largest dating site, you get zero matches.

Probably just because the men smell so bad that it would be very unwelcoming to allow women to partake of their essence.

Sure, but why do PINBALL men always smell so bad?

I go to tons of shows for geeky stuff, audiophile, modeling, photography, comicon, numismatic, and I might smell two bad smelling people out of hundreds. But at a pinball show 80% of the men smell like they are wearing 10 day old clothes and have not showered in a month.

How hard can it be to shower (with soap) THAT VERY MORNING, and then put on ALL fresh clothes ?

It's not the best metaphor because we have a little tilt button that marks things NSFW.

If you are not logged in, you don't see those at all.

If you are logged in, you have to click those posts to read them.

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So if somebody started posting spoilers, I imagine that I would just tag them NSFW.

BTW: Thor dies and the new Thor comes back as a girl.....tag me bitches.

I'm sure the feature could be added, if spoilers became a problem.

Perfect example!

So we flag it.

It does not display for general visitors that don't have an account.

It does not display for Pinsiders who have NSFW crap set to not automatically display.

Robin knows what he is doing.

It's all workable somehow.

The best photography website for Canon photographers is http://photography-on-the.net/forum/

We have almost 400,000 active users.

In the photography profession, there are plenty of women and men in suggestive or nude poses .

On the Canon forum the "Glamor and Nude" section does not display unless you have an account. This keeps kids and prudes from claiming they "just stumbled into it". Google does not index that section of the site.

You can't post any pictures in the "Glamor and Nude" section, until you have made 400 posts on other parts of the forum. This keeps people from just using it as a spam depot.

You are welcome to comment about the photograph itself, but not about the model's body. If you post something like "That guy has a tiny prick" or " I like my women with a little less meat on their bones" you get banned from posting in the "glamor and Nude" section for a week.

Any crude or tasteless language is forbidden. If you post "I'd f*** that model like a freight train" , you are banned for a week.

If your photos contain anything out of the mainstream, you have to flag them (Violent), (Bondage), (Menstruation)....

Although you are welcomed to post both men and women, you can't post actual sexual intercourse.

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Even with all those clear rules in place, there of course has still been plenty of people upset.

One photographer posted a pic of a nude woman in an Indian headdress.

A guy claiming to be an American Indian said he was offended by it.

People argued that is was good, it was bad.....bla bla bla.

Finally it was decided that it was art, so if you don't like it, don't look at it.

No mods had to delete any pics, lock any posts, or make some new set of rules to make the forum more attractive to American Indians.

You just have to be mature enough that if you click on a post you don't like, you hit the back button and move along.

It works well 99.999% of the time.

I won't post the pic because there is no pinball machine (there is an Indian Motorcycle = super cool), but you can see it here:

http://robertalvarado.smugmug.com/photos/i-VJmv54S/0/O/i-VJmv54S.jpg

Sure.

There are of course professional models, but also wives and boyfriends.

Think if someone's boyfriend gets all dolled up, has the guts to get their picture taken, and then some loser who has never even had a boyfriend says "He's got a tiny cock, if that is even a cock...". Nobody wanted all the negativity every day on the forum.

There is plenty of critique about the lighting, settings, and processing; but the models themselves are off limits.

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He's using a strobe to eliminate all the shadows, then processing it to look super saturated and flat.

Many of his shots have that odd look to them.

He is a great pinup photographer:

http://robertalvarado.smugmug.com/

That's totally true.

Wolf Doxxed me, from behind.

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Just hit that DRAIN button, and it will be gone forever.

C'mon, creepy would be posting her home address, place of employment, Social Security number; that's the definition of Doxxing.

Tracking down a public Facebook page is something everybody does every day.

I was just talking to a Head Hunter the other day. He said before an employer even reads your resume, they hunt down your Facebook page and see what kind of person you are.

Don't post things online that you don't want the whole world to see.

Even if you think you have it set "private", it's not.

Out of the 63, I'll guess 3 are actually female.

If a post title is "Hot Studs of Pinball (NSFW)" and you don't want to see any beefsack, or you do, but you are at work (where the IT guys already laugh at the things you buy on Amazon), it's not hypocritical to avoid that thread.

Just trying to be helpful.

You don't have to get all snippy with me.

He did not really Doxx you.

If you hung out on 4chan with us, you would **know** what Doxxing is.

I will, of course acknowledge that the word Doxxing is super scary sounding right now because of all the media attention that Felicia Day generated.

And I will acknowledge that Wolf used the term in a way that sounded like he actually Doxxed you.

It was obviously a joke, so let's all just call a truce and get back to good things that women have done in pinball.

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It's 10000% true as told to me.

I've seen his work, and it is mind blowing.

You are wildly flailing at the wrong person.

Take a breath.

Think about what you are saying and who you are saying it to.

Ahhh, when you have no intelligent point to make, switch to the insults.

More insults?

C'mon, I stick up for you and you are still stuck in defensive mode?