Zubon has a new chapter of his light-hearted but pretty insightful Dating for Gamers thread up at Kill Ten Rats.

He describes intragender communication in terms of filters for chat systems, and it sounds about right. One thing though: it occurs to me that I'm always filtering to make outgoing statements less confrontational and often reading incoming streams as though others are doing the same. I never got on all that well with the whole 'add offensiveness because the listener will take it out and consider it proof of good humour' thing.

In short, according to Zubon's colourful view of the situation, I'm a male nerd with chat filters wired like a woman...