I take it the effect would have been different if they had been hairy knuckle draggers of a female sort?
Just pointing out that women can like to get dirty and involved in that sort of thing and still be "eye candy" in fact, some of the presenters were more attractive to me because I could have talked to them forever
Big fan of bear myself but not for your reasons
I love his positive attitude and outlook on life that never seems to falter.
I'm probably just as guilty of generalising as anyone here, using my circle of people has a ref point. If I was say studying biology at Uni then I guess I would have a different outlook where most women I knew would rather be down and dirty and my male mates weren't. Just because a women likes keeping fish doesn't always mean they don't like shopping for clothes and getting their nails done. Am I digging a deeper hole here
On balance I just don't think a lot of women have hobbies and if they do they tend to be something more practical like fitness training or sports. Men are more selfish and tend to have their thing that they do just to make that mundane life a little bit more interesting.
I am of the old skool unfortunately and firmly believe that men and women ARE different, always have been and always will be and that's a good thing IMO. I don't however think that either are less capable of anything, everything comes down to individuality. At my place I have office staff that if a pallet of plasterboards turned up which are 35kg each I wouldn't expect them to start hand balling them into the unit. I also have a friends son working with me with learning difficulties who does a couple of days a week for me and a couple for his dads building firm, he gets paid the same as everyone else but I wouldn't expect to leave him on site and finish a job of for me. Having said that he is the most hard working man (16y.o) I have and never complains. If there was true equality they would be running them boards in and my man would be getting dropped of at jobs and would expect them finished when I got back. On the other hand there is also my missus who burns away my credit card on clothes I can't afford for her and my daughter and pink things who would hand ball them plaster boards into my lock up just to prove a point. I once came home from working away to find she had stripped the wall paper off the stairwell using only a pair of steps and a plank
We're all different and that's what makes us the same. One Love!
I think that it distracts from the OP which was.....
I wonder why this is and if there's anything we can do to address this imbalance!
I can't think of any female well-known aquascapers. Are there any?
The answer to that I don't know, I can't think of any reasons there would be in imbalance. Perhaps the more women get into it the more will. I can't think of many well known well known scapers either probably for the reason above. Hopefully that will change. Maybe we should start up a dating section in the board for like minded people
You would have to have two tanks though, my missus has no interest in mine but if she did she best stay away from it.
The great philosopher Al Murray has a great outlook on it, "women are special in so many ways and much better at everything they do than men, they are Angels, which is why they should stay in the house; and while they're there it wouldn't do any harm to do a bit of hoovering"
"Beer for the men and wine, a fruit based alcoholic beverage for the ladies"
And in the interests of balance here's some modern day men for ya.
I recently posted on someone who was selling all their gear because of work commitments. If anything that's when you need a tank 