I can understand the issue, but it would be difficult to enforce it, if this became a rule. They would have to go and remove the female thanks on posts. Ideally it would be nice if the female and male forums could be hidden from either side, but this would create another can of worms - meaning when we join, we would have to say our gender in order for this separateness to happen. The women are in the same position. If someone has a name which is ambiguous they could post in one of these forums and no one would know. This goes back to the other thread...whether it would be nice to know if someone's gender is. Usually if you accidentally see a obvious female posting there, I think its by accident...they forget they're in the men's forum. One time I saw a thread there, for several days and the poor guy was in distress with a male problem, with 0 replies.....I knew the answer and wanted to help him badly. I PM'd him - told him I had some info and asked if he wanted me to send it to him.