Well..... At least I tried staying out of this!
Personally I have made it some sort of "ritual" before games, always wishing the opponents good luck or good game or whatever you may call it - setting the standard straight, always keeping a good spirit by also talking to them afterwards (well at least most of the times, hehe).
This has absolutely NOTHING to do with being female or whatever - it´s just a simple matter of manors!
I´m not exactly in need of "attention" or respect from male ballers because I´m female - hell no - I want to be treated as an equal baller, and want to gain the respect simply by playing good ball - not good ball "for a female" but just in general, male or female!
However - SOME male ballers do find it odd that "girlies" play - but when I say "some" I really do mean that, since the majority of paintballers (at least them competing on tournament level, understanding the TRUE aspects of the game!) have come to the understanding that there is nothing like "male/female paintballers" but on the quite opposite "good/bad paintballers" (sort of speak).
Actually some times I do come to the conclusion as well, that a lot of this socalled lack of respect for "girlie" paintballers do come from the "girlies" themselves - as some others have said as well, you do NOT gain respect in ANY sport just by "getting by" or by being a "female in a male dominated sport" - why should you??! You should gain respect only by doing good, isn´t that quite obvious?
- and then I must come to the great finale: Maybe the number of "respected female ballers" as of now is actually only fair? So what are we to do about that - start respecting some females for simply playing, OR should us females just start making a difference ON FIELD!
CHEERS!!!!!!
