Women love poetry more than men

Friday 20th September 2013 1:00 am (first posted Friday 24th July 2009 11:38 pm)

                 Women Love Poetry More Than Men.
                 Hard Hat Area: Poem under construction!
                          (a poem for two voices and a mind.)

It's a fact, they do...
they are more inclined to
they are they just do...

They like the emotional entanglement that's true, however,
I'm not sure are you?...

Of course: their eyes light up with delight ,
whenever a match is ever in sight,
they may not always sit and write...
or use computers the way men do

I think you'll find the opposite true
statistics recon one woman to two
men compose in verse
then publish their efforts for better or worse...

But liking is not the same as writing...!

As watching is not doing?

Good point, and true....

...like swimming is not drowning...

I get the point..

..you do?...........tbc

Comments

Tommy Carroll

Tue 29th Sep 2009 10:49

Winston/Isobel Yes I reposted (under construction) and I have added. I have forgotten most of my stuff owing to the condition Expressive Dysphasia August/September also some 'errors' in posting as of circumstance. Yes Winston I meant it as 'Women what love' LOL...but AE 'loving' aint the same as 'writing' ... : ) Thank you all for your patience! Tommy : )

winston plowes

Mon 28th Sep 2009 23:42

Tommy - I missed this too. Hav you changed it and because of that reposted? To be honest I got half way through thinking that the title was Women love poetry more than [they love] men. Is this true?!
Isobel - It is sad to know that there are folk who could contribute here but are afraid of critisism. Are we that bad?
Win

Isobel

Mon 28th Sep 2009 23:24

Is there a reason for re-posting this - have you made a significant change to it?

Isobel

Thu 30th Jul 2009 19:11

Wooops - didn't mean to press return - I'm not done yet and now I've lost my chain of thought. Yes I believe that often women doubt themselves far more than men - something or someone having undermined their confidence.. I imagine, in fact I know that there are women out there too anxious to post their work cos they couldn't handle the criticism or being unappreciated. Fewer men seem to suffer from that fear - I wonder why?

Isobel

Thu 30th Jul 2009 19:05

Can't believe I haven't commented on this before - it seems to have been given a wide birth by other women on the site which tells me something.... I would imagine that many women, tied to child rearing, housework and often careers also, have so many balls in the air, finding time for the poetic one is just so very hard.

Anthony Emmerson

Sun 26th Jul 2009 14:58

Hi Tommy,
An interesting thought - but I'm not sure that the statistics bear out your assertion! Being the somewhat curious and pedantic git that I am I did a quick count up and calculation on the ratio of males/females registered on this site. According to Paul's latest post:

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/newsgroupview.php?NewsThreadsID=178&NewsGroupsID=29

it seems that there are 567 poets registered. By my reckoning (and it's quite difficult - allowing for non-gender-specific profiles and possible aliases) it would appear that the ratio is approximately 360/200 men/women, or alternatively 1:0.55. Of course this could mean lots of things - even that there are more women poets out there, but that men have bigger egos! Surely not? :-)
Regards,
A.E.

Dave D Poet Rhumour

Sat 25th Jul 2009 10:32

Very true Tommy - do you post poems to any of the social networks - most of the responses I get there are from women :)

Best wishes

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