PT Three friends have me on their dirty-joke distribution lists. All three are women. Yet when I find myself in a group where dirty jokes are embraced, it's usually the men who tell them. Few women join in the rotation.
Conventional wisdom is outdated.
The stats are clear. When I joined CompuServe in the early '80s, most log-on names were male. Now there is no sense at all that women are underrepresented online. I'd noticed this in a vague way without making anything of it, until I encountered Dr. Leonard Shlain in April at the Conference on World Affairs, held at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The invention of the alphabet, in short, interrupted a happy pastoral era and set the hounds of testosterone loose upon us.