"You rarely see these women featured in skateboard magazines, and when you do, the highest praise is typically "She skates like a man!"
I challenge the author to find one time this has ever been said in a magazine or publication or in real life anywhere.
I think for about 95% of the times I've seen a female skater in my life, someone in my immediate vicinity has brought up the idea of whether she's hot, who of their friends is going to bang her first, and in the case of sponsored girls, insistence they could beat her in skate/do that trick/blah blah.
why aren't women as prevalent in skating as men? simply boils down to a numbers game. far more males try skateboarding than females....to quite an astounding degree. it's not some grand conspiracy designed by some evil male geniuses in a shady back room. it's that more men are interested in sports or s.t.e.m. or politics much in the same way that more women are interested in gymnastics or medicine or teaching.
and there's nothing wrong with that.
It's not that simple. You're correct that it's not a conspiracy. It's rather a LONGtime cultural setup that, in general, doesn't encourage girls to do much of anything besides be pretty. It's a lot more complicated than that, but you get the idea.
It's far more sexist to put a photo of a girl 50-50'ing an 8 stair rail in Thrasher because she's a girl. It's sexist and condescending. Hold women to the same standards as men if you gender equality in skating, when a woman does tricks good enough to get in the magazines, like Nora Vasconcellos, then let her in. Until then don't condescend and put a mediocre trick in simply because "well shes a girl."
Come on dude. When the mantra of SLAP is essentially "I'd rather watch ____ push down the sidewalk than ____ nollie hardflip a 69 stair," I think it's pretty silly when people complain that a girl isn't good enough rather than just get hyped on dope shit happening.
If you ask me, the problem is not enough girls being encouraged to skate, and all those little (and plenty large) bits of discouragement add up against that. If a pro female isn't doing stuff up to snuff of Alec Majerus or whatever, but gets new girls stoked to skate, then who cares?
And I agree with the general sentiment that the points she has are pretty muddled in a disjointed argument made by somebody who is out of touch.
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