Seems like a sensitive topic, but here goes. Taiwanease and Forumosa seem strikingly similar, to the point that a lot of users go on both boards. Is there any substantial difference between the two? I’ve for whatever reason chosen to saddle up to Forumosa and don’t plan to change my horse midstream, but was just wondering.
Taiwanease banded together a lot of the really tiresome posters from flob and concentrated them all in one space. It’s fairly painful to read, but there are some interesting people such as tomthorne’s and superking’s incarnation. It benefits both communities to have a bit of separation, I would say: I didn’t post here for years because I got tired of interacting with that crowd.
Loads of parenting posts when you click ‘Active topics’, which again reflects the demographic.
Flob has tommy 525! It also has ‘Learning Chinese’ which I look at and enjoy reading a lot but don’t really contribute much to because of a lack of expertise.
The ‘Teaching English’ stuff is ridiculous on both.
I’m relatively new here since I only started actively participating in Feb or March, but it seems there are only a few users who are regularly active and a couple dozen come-and-goers, which makes me kind of sad. But then again, it looks like Taiwanease doesn’t even have that many.
Not only is she (he?) young and Eurasian, he (she?) is also a “full-time Tgirl/ladyboy.” I’m sick of those were-women who only transform under a full moon; finally, a full-timer!
This isn’t exactly my area of expertise, but isn’t a T-girl not the same thing as a ladyboy? I thought a T-girl was a tomboyish (hence the T) lesbian, whereas a ladyboy is a chick with a dick. Not sure how you can be both.
Another offensive thing about the 'wease: the use of the word ‘kudos’. Makes me want to punch a puppy with all it’s grim cringing pop culture connotations. Can’t really verbalise the sense of dread that the use of that word brings over me. They might as well daub ‘HERE BE DRAGONBONES’ in (organic) fishguts over the lintel.