Date: 2010-11-06 02:51 pm (UTC)
I work in education, so professionally, probably 80% of the people I interact with are women. (The group of 7 teachers I'm working with this year are all women. Of the 28 teachers in the project, there are 6 men; my group is the only one without any men. *and* of the 7 of us staffing the project, there's only one other man.)

I have six sisters, and three brothers. I was fairly close with the brother just above me when I was young -- the next older sibling is about 5 years older than me -- but ultimately I think I'm closer with some of my sisters and one sister-in-law. The sister-in-law always treated me my age, and she was the only one to do that -- when I was 5, she treated me like I was 5. When I was a teenager, she treated me like a teenager. A couple of my other sisters have actually opened up to me a bit more and made more of an effort to connect with me as a person more after I came out. In a strange way I think it helped them see me more as my own person and not just as their baby brother.

My gaming group includes two women, a couple. (One is transgendered, MTF, and I'd known them both for years before she transitioned. They were already married when I met them.) The rest are men -- but only one other is a gay man. Oh, and another guy sometimes brings his wife, maybe three or four times a year. We meet about twice a month. P & M have been great friends -- we will occasionally socialize outside the gaming group. (Mark isn't in the group, though he sometimes joins us long enough to have dinner.) They have two sons, and they have named us as guardians if something happens to both of them (the parents). When P had her surgery and both were gone for 12 days, we took care of the boys (they were in 2nd and 5th grades at the time).

My LJ here has a few women, but not a large number compared to the number on my flist. It's not by design or anything that there is a paucity of women. I think I've only met two(?) in person, and I met both at leather events before we became LJ friends. (I think. One for sure, I can't remember for the other.) I keep remembering more women on my list as I type this... Anyway, I don't feel as close to them as I do the men; the one I have the most connection with doesn't seem to read other journals much, at least, she doesn't comment much. Her posts tend to generate a LOT of discussion (and a lot of flirting among her myriad of gay men) and are always interesting to read. The next closest often posts about gay issues in her country (European) and she does make an effort to connect. The others -- not so much. Occasionally, and I appreciate it when they do. I wish they would comment and post more.

My other main circle of friends are my leather groups, which are exclusively men.

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