Why not? My biggest lifelong disability has been shyness, and I
understand shyness, and any woman I meet here would have that
understanding in common with me. Where else would I meet a woman
that had anything major in common with me, so that we could
understand each other's emotions to some degree without
insurmountable effort required just to *begin* at the slightest bit
of understanding?

Why not? There's no *other* place to meet nice available women.
It's not like you can just walk up to a total stranger on the
street and expect she'll immediately know you well enough to accept
you as a possible friend, in fact chances are she's already married
to a spouse or to her work or to her many friends and has no time
whatsoever to talk with me. At least people online in various
forums *have* the time to talk with strangers over the net, else I
wouldn't see what they've posted in the first place, because they
wouldn't have posted anything, because they'd be too busy to spend
their valuable time posting anything.

There's no place in Real Life where I could possibly meet anybody
who is available and compatible, except by a freak chance which
doesn't happen even once in a lifetime. Maybe if I lived three
hundred years, I'd eventually chance to run into somebody
compatible and available and interested, but that isn't reality,
that's fantasy. In my whole life so-far I haven't yet met even one
nice single woman close to my age, nor any nice single woman of
*any* age who would choose to spend time getting acquainted with
me, and expecting this never-yet event to suddenly start happening
in the near future is sheer fantasy. I'm not stupid enough to
accept your fantasy as my plan for meeting somebody.

Back to the original topic: I got a letter from Peter Richter of
Kaiser Foudation Health Plan Inc. stating that unless and until I
come up with the money to purchase a brand-new computer capable of
running Windows Vista or Windows XP or Windows XP or Windows 2000
or Macintosh OS 10.4.8, and install the corresponding versions of
Internet Explorer (7.0 on V/XP or 6.0 on 2000) or Mozilla Firefox
(2.0 on V/XP/Mac10 or 1.5 on 2000) or Safari (2.0 on Mac10), and
get direct InterNet service on that brand-new computer to let that
Web browser work directly off the InterNet, they *refuse* to allow
me to use their Web site. I'm totally pissed at Kaiser at this
point and wish I could find a civil-rights lawyer to prosecute them
for discrimination against low-income disabled people who can't get
high-paying jobs because of disability and prejudice and
consequently can't afford the money to buy a brand-new computer and
lease a larger apartment to install it in. If anybody knows how to
get the attention of the ACLU or any other agency that provides
free lawyers for civil-rights cases, please get us connected. My
direct phone calls to ACLU's voice mail haven't gotten even a
call-back. The ACLU Web site tells me the only way to contact the
ACLU is to make a long distance phone call, which I can't afford,
to:
ACLU of Northern California
Executive Director: Maya Harris
39 Drumm Street
San Francisco, CA 94111-4805
Phone: 415-621-2488
Fax: 415-255-1478
So even the ACLU is discriminating against low-income disabled
people who don't live within the free dialing area from San
Francisco and can't afford to make toll calls to SF.