Is Literotica a 'Male Centric' site?

[Kelliezgirl]

Yeah, I had to learn programming from books. Spent a lot of time in B&N agonizing over which one to spend my last twenty bucks on.

"Tech" is no longer a single category. I can write code, but I don't know much about using a tablet/phone beyond basic stuff. I can't physically repair a computer, aside from the most basic stuff. I use Linux, but mostly because it makes programming easier. And because it's free, it has better security, it doesn't do wierd shit when it updates, and for other uses it isn't much different than other desktop OSs now. I can't do much fancy stuff with it. But put me in front of a Windows computer now, and I'm lost. And I never really did get Mac's way of doing things.

'Savvy' comes in a lot of nearly unrelated flavors.

Fair point about different flavors, but I quickly discovered that many of my "tech savvy" classmates couldn't do much more than use an iPhone inspite of growing up with it.
I bet you would have an easier time figuring out how to get deeper into a tablet than I would figuring out Linux.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I've worked with immigrants and refugees. The kids learn English in weeks and the parents struggle for years. Kids are learning machines.

I used to live next to a guy who'd come out from Lebanon as a child, spoke native-level English, and his widowed mother who had very little English. I guess when they arrived, there wasn't so much need for her to learn - she would've come over at the same time as a lot of other Lebanese refugees from the civil war, and had an Arabic/French-speaking social circle, and her husband would've been doing most of the transactions with English speakers.

But then those communities integrate, the young people are speaking English most of the time, some of the old people die off, and you're left with somebody who's quite isolated and dependent on her son. Worst part was, she had just enough English to get by most of the time, but when she was sick she'd forget it and that was when she needed it most.

...and then we moved and found ourselvesliving next to an Italian migrant family with exactly the same situation. We'd wave and smile at one another but mostly she communicated with us by leaving bags of garden produce on our doorstep.

 

[Britva415]

mostly she communicated with us by leaving bags of garden produce on our doorstep

"Arugula again!? What did I ever do to these people!"

 

[intim8]

I bet you would have an easier time figuring out how to get deeper into a tablet than I would figuring out Linux.

If you mean just doing to do normal stuff, web, email, look at pictures, write a Lit story and organize your files, that's hardly any different than any other OS. Just a matter of which icons to click and slightly different menus. If you mean getting really deep, well, Linux is a lot bigger than a tablet OS.

OTOH, on my Android phone, I just learned the other day that if you highlight a word, you can drag those big blue teardrops to select a block of text. Who knew?

I got my first smartphone only about 2 or 3 years ago. Before that, it was a flip phone. I just didn't have much use for a smart phone, but when I finally did, for work, I got one. I still don't use it much, but more and more I'm doing things on it just because it's handy.

But figuring out how to write characters relatable to women? I doubt I'll ever be that 'savvy'.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

But figuring out how to write characters relatable to women? I doubt I'll ever be that 'savvy'.

Don't sell yourself short!

 

[intim8]

you're left with somebody who's quite isolated and dependent on her son

I never considered that before. It's really sad.

 

[intim8]

Don't sell yourself short!

Can't help it, I was born this way... Oh, wait, you mean... umm, OK, never mind.

You tell me, am I any good at it? At the Big Bay Window. I'd actually like to know what women think.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

Can't help it, I was born this way... Oh, wait, you mean... umm, OK, never mind.

You tell me, am I any good at it? At the Big Bay Window. I'd actually like to know what women think.

I'll take a look when I get a chance.

 

[Bamagan]

I'd disagree with that, if anything computers of any sort have gotten consistently easier to use.
3 year old kids can navigate a tablet, and it's only going to get easier.

I guess I agree with you up to a point. Many of the most basic features of common types of applications have been streamlined so that, as you point out, even a toddler can quickly learn to take a picture and send it to grandma or whatnot. But at the same time, perhaps to prevent those kinds of users from messing things up, more robust functionalities get hidden progressively deeper in submenus or sometimes simply removed until or unless 'legacy functions' are enabled. Or at least, that seems to be the way things are going with the applications I most frequently use.

 

[madelinemasoch]

Had a Computer Science Prof in college who wrote WYSIWYG on the board and asked if any of us knew what it meant. 60 some odd Freshman and Sophmores, one guy raises his hand, the old guy in the class, in his 40s.

What did it mean?

 

[Britva415]

on my Android phone, I just learned the other day that if you highlight a word, you can drag those big blue teardrops to select a block of text

How long have you been using it without ever selecting more than one word of text?

This was almost the first thing I did when I started using handheld computers - figure out how to select, copy and paste. Phones, tablets, palm pilots way back when. I'm not calling you dumb or anything, just marveling at how differently we seem to use our devices.

 

[alohadave]

What did it mean?

What You See Is What You Get.

It describes graphical presentation of documents/workspace. Before Graphical User Interfaces, programs like Word Perfect would display raw text and formatting codes to mark up the text (bold, italic, various fonts (which were limited), etc). You didn't see what it would look like until you rendered the file for printing.

Now, the formatting is applied on the fly, and you see the effects as they are applied. It makes layout and design much more intuitive and faster since you can see what it looks like as you work.

 

[intim8]

How long have you been using it without ever selecting more than one word of text?

Up until probably less than a year ago. I have very little need to use it for things like posting here or social media.

I have two desktops for work, and I work at home. When I go out, I'm not generally doing anything on the phone.

The only reason I finally got one was that my job required 2FA to a phone number with an authenticator app.

I've started doing more on it lately, just because it is there.

 

[SimonDoom]

What You See Is What You Get.

It describes graphical presentation of documents/workspace. Before Graphical User Interfaces, programs like Word Perfect would display raw text and formatting codes to mark up the text (bold, italic, various fonts (which were limited), etc). You didn't see what it would look like until you rendered the file for printing.

Now, the formatting is applied on the fly, and you see the effects as they are applied. It makes layout and design much more intuitive and faster since you can see what it looks like as you work.

This is a good point, because I started using computers on an every day basis before GUIs were universal. We had to deal with text and prompts. Vastly inferior as a user experience, but I think it clued the user in better to what was going on inside the magic box.

 

[TheLobster]

Because children have cognitive advantages at learning languages.

https://news.mit.edu/2018/cognitive-scientists-define-critical-period-learning-language-0501

You put a 3 year old in front of an 1980s computer with a DOS prompt and she's helpless, learning machine or not.

The existence of a critical period for learning a second language is still hotly debated. Beyond the age of 5, there is convincing evidence either way.

The DOS machine is a bad example because it has practically no contextual clues in its on-screen interface, so it's an unfair comparison. Think about something like a Windows 98 computer at the turn of the century. A kid can definitely figure out how to operate just by trial and error. I know it because I was that kid

 

[Lady2020]

Lit is pretty much male-centric. I would guess that exact stats would be hard to pin down given the anonymous platform and women generally tend to have different porn needs. Women on Lit are deluged with pms. Men generally aren't.

 

[THBGato]

shit shit shit HULL BREACH PURGE IMMEDIATELY shit fuck bugger cunt fuck...



that was too close.

in all seriousness, Jackie H and JCMcNeilly get two thumbs up from this Iguanadon. Jackie's Star Crossed made me blub, and JC's A Girl Named Mitch is just chefs-kiss-gorgeousness HEA stuff.

Then, from the male-but-definitely-in-touch-with-his-inner-lesbian is Bramblethorn, who wrote the sublime Anjali's red scarf that is so very, very much my guilty pleasure. It's like chocolate body paint for my soul.

I'd suggest reading anything by these three. AND THEN READ THEIR FAVOURITES MUAAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

But I did that already Wanda! ;-)

 

[nice90sguy]

Women on Lit are deluged with pms. Men generally aren't.

I can vouch for that. It's unbe-fucking-lievable. But most of those men are neither readers or writers, but the "dark matter" of stalkers and lonely people who spend more time in lit chat than anywhere else

 

[AchtungNight]

After some thought, I will agree that this site and the adult entertainment industry in general are mostly enjoyed by men. But there are a lot of women here also, so clearly they find something appealing even with the losers. That’s my final word on the subject.

 

[Bramblethorn]

What You See Is What You Get.

It describes graphical presentation of documents/workspace. Before Graphical User Interfaces, programs like Word Perfect would display raw text and formatting codes to mark up the text (bold, italic, various fonts (which were limited), etc). You didn't see what it would look like until you rendered the file for printing.

I guess the modern-day equivalent would be reading raw HTML. WYSIWYG was a big thing and now we all take it for granted.

 

[Bramblethorn]

How long have you been using it without ever selecting more than one word of text?

This was almost the first thing I did when I started using handheld computers - figure out how to select, copy and paste. Phones, tablets, palm pilots way back when. I'm not calling you dumb or anything, just marveling at how differently we seem to use our devices.

Every so often my cat walks across the keyboard and I discover some new keyboard shortcut I never knew existed.

 

[TheLobster]

I guess the modern-day equivalent would be reading raw HTML. WYSIWYG was a big thing and now we all take it for granted.

Coincidentally, WYSIWYG is not really a thing when writing HTML. There have been some attempts at visual HTML editors in the 2000s (e.g. MS FrontPage) but they all produced so much bloat in the source that no one seriously used them. The closest we have to WYSIWYG now are services like Wix that simply present you with predefined website templates that you fill in with widgets.

 

[nice90sguy]

Every so often my cat walks across the keyboard and I discover some new keyboard shortcut I never knew existed.

I've discovered quite a few websites that way too

 

[lovecraft68]

I've been here a long time and seen a lot of people come and go, and who was popular and who wasn't

Fact is this, if you're a woman here who did not come here to flirt, has opinions, and sticks to them, you are not popular and will always be the target of mansplaining an rude behavior.

If a woman comes here and talks about how much they love giving head, and flirting and everything is a dirty remark then they will be very popular with the men here.

Not every guy, but many here are a sad lot of high school level grabby little boy with a Beavis and butthead mentality "Uh huh huh she said cock.

Male centric is a kind way of saying sexist and toxic male.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

The existence of a critical period for learning a second language is still hotly debated. Beyond the age of 5, there is convincing evidence either way.

The DOS machine is a bad example because it has practically no contextual clues in its on-screen interface, so it's an unfair comparison. Think about something like a Windows 98 computer at the turn of the century. A kid can definitely figure out how to operate just by trial and error. I know it because I was that kid

It's not an unfair comparison because it perfectly illustrates my point, technology has gotten simpler.
DOS would have been effectively impossible.
Windows 98 was much easier. Each succeeding generation of technology has become more intuitive and easier to use than the last.
Once upon a time you had to learn how to use computers. Now people just figure it out on the fly.