As you can see Kirsten, everyone here would love to welcome you, but they are too busy beating up on me for telling the forum's dirty little secrets to a newcomer whose unexpected presence among us, as Ebbie so politely suggested, "mildly annoyed" them. Hence, their responding in their usual, well mannered way.

You have my apologies Kirsten, if I overstepped my bounds. I did start all this when commenting upon what I perceived as you getting a majorly pissy reception, after posting on-topic copies of well written, interesting articles on subjects rarely mentioned, much less discussed in this forum.

Though visits to the music section do suggest we are currently enjoying a veritable rush of feminist and women musicians commenting right now. True, some are choosing to express some frustration with the good ole boy trad/folk scene. I can't think of a time when we've had so many feminists expressing themselves in the forum, ever.

I welcome you, and would only ask that you not tone done your rhetoric to suit the Wonder bread nature of this forum's dysfunctional socio-political dynamic.   It is true, there are a handful of folks who will actually engage with you on your level, rather than taking sniper shots at you. You clearly need no one to stick up for you, and it was not my intention to do that.

Rather, I sometimes do relish too much the (frequent) opportunities to point out the human foibles of certain posters here who deny any and all knowledge of their own dark natures operating without their knowledge as their evil twin selves.