Speaking about dance, there are stereotypes that "Real men don't dance". Young people are quite susceptible to such things and it should play a role why there are fewer boys in dancing. I wonder if TT's reputation of a "geeky" sport (due to its extreme technicality) plays a similar role.
Maybe I will try again.
When my daughter was little, she liked pink hearts, she liked fairy wings and princess gowns. She had dreams of being a dancer. She was not interested in cars, trucks, trains, anything with wheels, and she was not interested in any activities that included a ball or something to hit a ball with.
ALL THIS despite the fact that I was her father and I REALLY tried. She would pretend for me and then I would realize she was pretending because she wanted to make me happy. But she really didn’t like those kinds of things.
She had ONE friend who was a girl who liked sports that included a ball and eye hand coordination. The rest of her friends who were girls, were right in that same category with her on things they liked.
Most of her friends who were boys liked cars, trucks, trains, fire engines, plains, any sport with a ball involved, diving, hitting each other, and pretty much all of them seemed to dread the idea of a dance class. And my wife definitely tried to get some of the boys to the dance classes.
Every once in a while there was a boy who liked the girly stuff just like, once in a while, there was a girl who liked the sporty boy stuff.
It seemed coded into the DNA. And I am talking about before they were old enough to have had someone really implant those kinds of ideas into their head. Like when my daughter was 18 months old, her and her friends were like that.
I know, for sure, when I was a kid, I spent all day daydreaming about baseball, football, any activity that had to do with me hitting a ball or trying to catch or throw the ball.
Since my business gets me to see how men and women exercise: I see 90+% of the group fitness class attendance—whether yoga or any other kind of GROUP fitness class—is WOMEN, and the men workout in the weight and lifting areas.
The aerobic machines, like treadmill, stair master, elliptical machine, stationary bike etc, are used 65%-35% women to men. But the women stay on them longer and the men do them, get the aerobics out of the way and go pump iron ALONE or with 1 or 2 workout partners. But mostly alone.
The goals of women and men in their workouts are very different. But what they are interested in and how they workout are very-very-very different.
Again, why are 95-98% of my yoga clients women? I doubt it is because they think I’m hot! [emoji2]
Why were there so few boys in my daughter’s dance classes?
Why are there so few girls who really want to play American FOOTBALL?
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I think there are reasons. I am happy that TT has its fair share of women players who love playing the sport, or game....or whatever it is.
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