Hey i can be popular if I bash the idea tooo YAY
Passive aggression isn't usually what I think of when I see that you've posted, but lately you've been wearing that hat with pride.
So allow me to explain - the idea of having a separate section to talk about MAN things is just about as demoralizing as having a separate section to talk about all things Pride. There are sections that are par for the course for forums - introductions(though despite what members may have you believe, the introduction section is NOT Show Yourself Off), entertainment(music/reading/movies), art(which we don't actually have here), fun and games, politics, sports, and tech support. Then we've got religion, self-made porn(show yourself off and sometimes the daddy/bear section), studio porn, fetishes, gossip, and more. Then we've got something for those that passed on, something for those that paid 30$ to not have ads, ask the mods, a HEALTH section... and so on.
And then we have Hot Topics, which, to the best of my knowledge, was supposed to be inclusive of not just the headlines and not just the flora, fauna and manure that grows it as it were, but also of what YOU want to talk about as well. What's to stop people about talking about cars and fishing and trips and exercise, fixing up your home, building something from scratch and things of that nature? Why do we need a separate section for EVERYTHING and why do these things need some sort of coded criteria to "fit in"?
I'm as much against this as I am about a separate fashion forum, only I feel the latter to be less insulting in design
and presentation. Maybe if JQ didn't go around making a fool of himself, swimming in the motherload of stereotypes and spitting them out and then abstractly playing the disliked martyr when called on it, this idea might be a good idea despite the fact that I feel it to be clutter. But I just know that if I ever feel the need to talk about something that has to be coated in my "masculinity", I could and very well would do so here first.
