Originally posted by Nick Brockdorff
Just noticed this thread...... and what a bunch of BS a lot of it is 
Skeet:
What is your point mate?
- Are you arguing that women should not play paintball?
- Are you arguing they can never be as good as men?
- Are you arguing without having a point - and just for the hell of it?
To me, reading your posts, it seems like there is no clear picture of what exactly you are getting at - except maybe that you miss the good old stoneage days, when you ran around naked clubbing animals, while the little old lady (apparently) lived an entirely risk free and cosy life....
And then all this talk about adrenalin? - what has that got to do with being good at paintball?
You and I could enter the field, and I could spank you all day, lefthanded, without feeling even the slightest tinge of adrenalin, while you were filled to the brim with the stuff.
Adrenalin has its uses - but it also has its drawbacks.... and it is not really relevant to how good (or not) you are at playing paintball.
Some players suck because they don't have enough adrenalin, others because they have too much, and others again suck either way.
MY point is this:
Women can get just as good at paintball as men - they just have different circumstances, and thus have to play the game in a slightly different way.... but that way is not necessarily better or worse - it is just..... different.... and in tune with their particular set of circumstances.
The only reason some peope think women cannot be good at paintball, is because we have seen very few women that are.... but that is not because they are women... that is because - so far - they represent under 1/5000 of the people playing the sport seriously, and as such it is much harder to find those few girls that statisticly have the abilities to become great.
I could form a 7-girl team right now, that would be able to contest in the Pro ranks.... not at Dynasty level.... because that takes an experience no female player has yet....... but certainly at a level on par with the best European Pro teams....
Only problem is, that the few girls that are - as of yet - good enough, are spread out across the northers hemisphere... so that Pro team is an impossibility until someone gives me a million bucks (or whatever) to move them all to the same place for daily practices.
Nick
Are you arguing that women should not play paintball?
Not in the slightest..I dont care who plays, as long as they are decent folk, if they arent decent folk..well...c'est la vie!
- Are you arguing they can never be as good as men?
Again, not in the slightest. When I was younger, I used to play a great deal of Pool, and I was pretty good...at teh club where I played, a great many female players were to be found, one of whom is a very good friend of mine, one of the girls played for England several played at County level.
I have no problem with girls in sport of any kind and no problem with being beaten by them either...as happened on more than one occasion in the pool hall!
I take part in Competetive short and long range rifle shooting...again, a sport not overly populated by women, and again, while I am pretty good (national Level), I am still beaten by females, some of them younger than me... I dont care, other than the fact that I was beaten!
- Are you arguing without having a point - and just for the hell of
No...I am not of that Ilk...I usually have a point...it may not be correct, buut I usually have one and generally, it will be of some relevence.
So...to clarify my point, as it seems it hasn been overlooked or ignored due to people wanting to jump on the anti sexist bandwagon...
Paintballers, utilise the "Killer Instinct", it's what gives them the drive and general state of alertness etc.
The "Killer Instinct", I believe...is more generally prevalent in Males.
My reason for thinking this, is because...for many thousands of years, humans were hunter gatherers. The men, went out hunting and killing and defending their territory and the females looked after the young, gathered food, etc.
So...the females, were not generally in need of "Killer Instinct", whereas the Males were.
Natural evolution, leads me to believe, that...in Modern Humans, although neither male nor female, really has to go hunting for food, or defending their territory from foe's (in quite the same way), the "Killer Instinct" is still there in males, much more so, than in females.
After all, males have been fighting battles etc, even to the current day.
We do see more and more women doing this also, but not day to day on either count, these people are in teh Forces, not Joe Public.
So...it is my belief, that...females have a much less prevalent "killer instinct" than men "generally", due to the fact that they have not needed it, for so long.
Bearing this in mind, the effect of the "fight or flight" reaction, in humans, as induced by Adrenalin release, must surely, be different "generally", in males and females.
So...disregarding paintballers for the moment.
In a given situation...I think a female "generally", would be more inclined to be thinking of escape and males, more inclined to fight.
Obviously, there is more to it than that and one cannot generalise for all individuals, but one can make supositions.
On a paintball field...naturally, both sexes know, that they arent going to come to any life threatening harm (ignoring velocity ramping!)...so both sexes are likely to go into "aggresive", "kill or be killed" mode, when the adrenalin starts pumping, assuming that they are experienced enough to have overcome those nerves, that some new players have.
Hence...having proposed that the "killer instinct" is less developed in females, a male paintballer, "generally", should be a more fearsome, more aggresive player, with more "will to kill".
Of course, I am in no way saying, that female players cannot be as good as male players.
I am simply (or not quite so, judging by the length of this post!), that "generally" they are possibly at a natural disadvantage, initially, to men...maybe.
It grieves me to see, how people can instantly look on the bad side of things, if they feel sexism is present, without actually looking, to see if that is the case.
FYI...the team I am playing for at the moment, has a female in it and it's quite nice to have a bit of female company...
