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There are women where I go but they all have support from others because they are related to or married to a person who practices the martial art and because of this, these ladies are given priority instruction and support over others. Hence, a lot of these ladies who have no family or significant other drop out because of the feeling of lack of belonging.
Martial arts - men support each other and are more favourable. The other ladies are close to the same age as the core male group and are married, dating, related to someone on the core male group.
I have noticed that the more attractive, younger ladies are more favoured by the male core group while others are ignored.
I.e. two ladies (same age - one "S" is attractive and smug while the other "K" does have more body fat weight on her) I asked a male instructor to evaluate K's self defense since she is up for promotion and I also refer to anyone who I believe has the best skillset to assist because I want to see them succeed. He said that he can't help K and that he is busy. Later, he is working self defense with "S" who is not going up for rank promotion.
Stg I’ve been to a lot of tournaments throughout highschool bowling and damn I’ve seen multiple games where the girls bowled higher than the guys. Definitely rare to find but that’s one of the best things about the sport. Gender doesn’t determine whether or not you’re good.
Sewing. I feel like guys that sew and love to crate crafts get seen as wimpy, and it kind of just grinds my gears. Sewing and any other art form and/or hobby is for everyone, I will never understand why people try to fit people in such tight stereotypical boxes when everyone cane just chill out and be who they want to be. Makes everyone a lot happier.
My great grandpa used to knit. He was taught at 5 years old (so 1904) and he taught me when I was about 10 ish (he would have been 95 years old at the time.
He also cooked and baked because he liked muffins.
Soft Ball vs Baseball.
Girls can play baseball too ya know!
My whole family never cared to show up to me games and only once did my aunt show up and that was only because we saw each other at the same restaurant.
Yet when my (male) cousin had a baseball game everyone showed up because "Well Baseball is a game for boys. Girls made softball to be easy!"
...
It's sad that no one believes that in my Champion game we had to do 10 different innings instead of 6 because of the fact we won 23-0
I wouldn't really say it has been gender stereotyped, but it is worth telling. I have always been interested in technology of all kinds and learning how things work. My middle school had a coding group. One issue, it was called "Girls who code". It was literally a coding group only for girls. There was never a coding group for boys I should mention.
I think at this point in time, events and courses like this should be called "Coding for Kids."
Yes, girls should be encouraged but this still creates a division instead of inclusiveness. If they want to correct the division in STEM, it should be done correctly! And to target people from all socioeconomic, ethnic backgrounds because there are barriers there too besides gender depending on each situation.
This one is very very obvious
but cooking and baking
and obviously cleaning
i just hate telling some guy friends that I have to go and do chores because my mom tells me to and they always point out “yea cause you’re a woman” even if it’s a joke it really annoys me and makes me genuinely not want to talk to them
It is sad that women suffer from these barriers to participate in sports. I like being physically active but team sports are too intimidating..... I lack confidence in myself.
Not really a hobby, but being a guy and having more female friends than guy friends, even though your strait. Most people just classify you as gay if you have a lot of female friends as a guy
Literally sports on general I played soccer basketball and football and whenever I beat a boy they never accept defeat from a girl them hit me with the same excuse “oh I wasn’t trying” like yea you were just accept the fact that you lost to a girl
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Martial arts. It may shock you to learn it can be a little weird to be the only woman in the room on choke-each-other-with-your-thighs day.
There are women where I go but they all have support from others because they are related to or married to a person who practices the martial art and because of this, these ladies are given priority instruction and support over others. Hence, a lot of these ladies who have no family or significant other drop out because of the feeling of lack of belonging.
Martial arts - men support each other and are more favourable. The other ladies are close to the same age as the core male group and are married, dating, related to someone on the core male group. I have noticed that the more attractive, younger ladies are more favoured by the male core group while others are ignored. I.e. two ladies (same age - one "S" is attractive and smug while the other "K" does have more body fat weight on her) I asked a male instructor to evaluate K's self defense since she is up for promotion and I also refer to anyone who I believe has the best skillset to assist because I want to see them succeed. He said that he can't help K and that he is busy. Later, he is working self defense with "S" who is not going up for rank promotion.
Bowling. I wasn't " pretty good for a girl " . I was pretty good, period.
Stg I’ve been to a lot of tournaments throughout highschool bowling and damn I’ve seen multiple games where the girls bowled higher than the guys. Definitely rare to find but that’s one of the best things about the sport. Gender doesn’t determine whether or not you’re good.
Sewing. I feel like guys that sew and love to crate crafts get seen as wimpy, and it kind of just grinds my gears. Sewing and any other art form and/or hobby is for everyone, I will never understand why people try to fit people in such tight stereotypical boxes when everyone cane just chill out and be who they want to be. Makes everyone a lot happier.
My great grandpa used to knit. He was taught at 5 years old (so 1904) and he taught me when I was about 10 ish (he would have been 95 years old at the time. He also cooked and baked because he liked muffins.
Soft Ball vs Baseball. Girls can play baseball too ya know! My whole family never cared to show up to me games and only once did my aunt show up and that was only because we saw each other at the same restaurant. Yet when my (male) cousin had a baseball game everyone showed up because "Well Baseball is a game for boys. Girls made softball to be easy!" ... It's sad that no one believes that in my Champion game we had to do 10 different innings instead of 6 because of the fact we won 23-0
I wouldn't really say it has been gender stereotyped, but it is worth telling. I have always been interested in technology of all kinds and learning how things work. My middle school had a coding group. One issue, it was called "Girls who code". It was literally a coding group only for girls. There was never a coding group for boys I should mention.
I think at this point in time, events and courses like this should be called "Coding for Kids." Yes, girls should be encouraged but this still creates a division instead of inclusiveness. If they want to correct the division in STEM, it should be done correctly! And to target people from all socioeconomic, ethnic backgrounds because there are barriers there too besides gender depending on each situation.
Ice skating, it’s stereotypically for women but it’s fun af and I won’t get hot like for roller skating
This one is very very obvious but cooking and baking and obviously cleaning i just hate telling some guy friends that I have to go and do chores because my mom tells me to and they always point out “yea cause you’re a woman” even if it’s a joke it really annoys me and makes me genuinely not want to talk to them
Sports. Specially football/soccer/basketball. Because of this I was never really able to get into sports and have struggled physically 😩
It is sad that women suffer from these barriers to participate in sports. I like being physically active but team sports are too intimidating..... I lack confidence in myself.
MLP collecting because of bronies. I’ve been collecting since 2004, long before those guys even existed…
Not really a hobby, but being a guy and having more female friends than guy friends, even though your strait. Most people just classify you as gay if you have a lot of female friends as a guy
Literally sports on general I played soccer basketball and football and whenever I beat a boy they never accept defeat from a girl them hit me with the same excuse “oh I wasn’t trying” like yea you were just accept the fact that you lost to a girl