PMT
(This is Lemon, not Lump, as I can't get my account to work for some reason!)
Finally, someone has pointed out the female aggression button!! Although the 'PMT switch' is a button that gets pushed accidentally just by being near it, breathing on it or looking at it! we can (and do... ask andy B, lol) tap into that endless supply of aggression when on a paintball field (well i do anyway!).
I didn't even know a woman could be this aggressive and it's exactly the reason I would rather play men than women...the thought of 7 of them with pmt AND markers in their hands coming at me would scare the cr*p out of me, and I'm a woman lol.
Okay - let me put it in another way: When looking at the number of male and female paintballers, how would you rank them skill-wise on field? I actually truly believes, that you will find a bigger percentage of the females being good/solid "ballers" than you will amongst the males!
Totally agree!
But seriously, the statistics will probably show this, as any girl who trys pb will soon realise the effort and commitment needed to be any good will mean no life outside paintball and it seems that in general, men are more conditioned to devoting most of their life to a sport, compared to women who often think it's a waste of time... I know I did until I found pb!
Maybe that is solely due to the fact that less females actually do enter this sport - it takes more for them to keep going, so once they do they are even more determined to be "good" than the males.......
Absolutely! I put far more effort into proving I can be as good as a man than I would into proving I'm as good as other women! Perhaps its a gender thing or maybe I'm alone in this reaction due to an extremely competative streak, who knows...
The reason in my mind for the lack of women playing pro has a lot more to do with a smaller player pool. Women face the same challenge, in essence, that Europeans face versus Americans~ there are more Americans than Euros, there are enormously more men than women.
Well of course! Anyone who can do simple maths should agree with this... Add that to the fact that (generally) men have been brought up with guns as toys and women with dolls and teddys (yeah alright, I wasn't one of them and I know it is a generalisation but you get my drift) means it takes a certain type of female to take up and be serious about this sport, compared to men to whom it should be natural, therefore there is never going to be an equal amount of each sex but it also means the quality of the females that stick at it should in theory be better. Thus, in time, when pb is more widespread, there should be some female pro ballers...its simple maths!
So...the females, were not generally in need of "Killer Instinct", whereas the Males were.
Hmm...What about the mother 'instinct' protecting her younglings? I'd like to see any man compete with that. In fact, if it were possible to compare which would be more potent, I wouldn't mind putting money on the survival instinct being a touch stronger than a killer one... Maybe us girlies and our need to 'survive' in a male dominated sport is what gives us our edge, and if there were enough of us to pick the best from we could actually prove it!
Stump Lump 0.5 (formally known as Lemon)
