So i've been a member of UMD for a while and I use it more and more for meets. As a gay male I don't mind seeing coed scenes where girls hit cute guys etc and I think the filtering is working pretty well in directing me towards male content.

It would be good however to address some of the wording and imagery on the site, to make it more friendly to all gender preferences. For example -

"Messy" forum description says "Discussion, pictures, and videos about females in sticky, slimy and sloppy substances". Can we get rid of "about females" here and also in "Wetlook" description?

Also, the UMD.net logo of a woman with messy tits and knees, and the background image of the header banner. Could it be a little less gendered?

What other examples are there of places where the gender needs a bit of balancing?

Keep up the good work, Wammaster x

Seeing some of these older threads that I should have responded to long ago... The verbiage on the forums has been changed to be gender-neutral, since each forum is now shown based on your pref. The UMD logo (Carmella) will stay, though. I can't think of how to make it gender-ambiguous, other than adding another figure into it somehow. Anyway, the icon and the header image (representing the icon and "real life" versions of Carmella) were chosen deliberately. The icon is a play on the classic "mudflap girl" that has been around forever. But to make it ours, I added actual [you name the substance] sploshed on her. The splotches let us change color for the seasons and occasions. To drive our M.O. home, the girl is leaning way back and has her head back, indicating willingness and enjoyment of the sploshing. That, combined with the widened font is supposed to impart the laid-back attitude of the site as well. She is obviously clothed with hints of a shirt being worn, her hair is let down, and I worked to make the high heels visible, indicating a measure of class. All this needed to be visible at tiny and large sizes, and that's possible because it's still just a silhouette.

I was able to find more items on a (traditional) female silhouette than a male, to manipulate into a representation of this site. While Carmella's being sploshed, she is enjoying it and perhaps even being empowered by it given her body language and dress for the occasion. That's the exact sentiment I want to communicate to existing members, and to new people who might not yet understand our view of enjoyable, consensual wam. The header image itself is supposed to be a real-life counterpart to the logo, so that's why it's there, but I suppose that would be the easiest thing to change in the future if we needed to.

A side note: Google Analytics has consistently held UMD's visitorship at over 45% female. I don't really know how they derive that statistic or how accurate it is, but I think anything NEAR that is incredible for an adult site.

Another side note: Replies to old messages on the Wammasters forum is now possible, as each forum has its own thread expiration dates, as of today!
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Awesome - thanks for doing that!

Thanks for the expiration change, MM.

On a somewhat related, but not really, note: I have recently been seeing a lot of blowback against the practice of referring to women (female homo sapiens) generically as females.

I'm not complaining. I just thought I'd mention it.

I'm so out of the loop but what's wrong with refering to women as "females"?

I believe it's likely out of respect to gender no-conforming individuals. Not all women identify as biologically "female"

In regards to the original post, I think it would be great to see a design on this site that includes the fact that some of us prefer a more masculine figure getting messy. Perhaps a competition could held to create a gender-neutral and/or all inclusive design, I'm sure there are a few people on this site who have some graphic design skills that would be put to great use here

Personally I would just whack a guy on the other side, like a mirror image. Done.

I'm not the one complaining, so I'm just passing along my understanding of the offense. In a nutshell, it has to do with demeaning women by referring to them a generic females. Female can refer to anything from a lizard to a horse. It is not specific to our species, and I guess it just sounds like objectification to refer to a women as "a female".
There are much more detailed first-person explanations on-line. I've read lengthy discussions on this.
I only bring it up because I try to be respectful of women and don't want to intentionally use offensive terms. I get that "female" is a gender, not a person. Women are people.