And under the same logic we should start making forums for married people, single peoples, old people, young people, republicans (there’s a lot of them around), students, beautiful people and morons.
Brian[/quote]
Forgive me, but your response is obtuse. Perhaps you’re striving at humour, but I can’t equate discussing gay issues with “beautiful people”. The purpose of a gay forum is to discuss particularly gay-related issues, of which there are very many. It is not, as you suggest, a forum for a minority. No one has advocated that or a private gay-only forum. I would object to such a forum.
Some months back, you wrote the following
[quote=“Bu Lai En”]As only one moderator, here are my personal reasons why I argued that a ‘Gay in Taiwan’ forum should not be established.
When we do start new forums, I believe that they should be started for new topic areas, not for certain groups of users. [/quote]
We are in agreement. You also wrote
[quote=“Bu Lai En”]Everyone has different needs or experiences of living in Taiwan and there are a lot of groups which share needs or experiences. Examples are gays, singles, foreign spouses, the elderly, students, professionals, Christians, vegetarians, parents, etc etc.
Rather than start new forums for each of these groups, members of these groups can start their own topics (eg ‘How to be a good Christian in Taiwan’) in general or post their experiences/needs (eg ‘Difficulties for elderly people finding teaching jobs’) in the appropriate forums. [/quote]
We are in agreement again - almost. But, again, it is a gay-topic forum that is required, not a gay-minority forum. And I