Just tagging into the thread here with a couple of comments. First camera was a 620 Kodak Brownie. Birthday present from the parents. When I showed some interest my father let me use his Argus C3. My next camera was a screw mount Spotmatic that I used until just a few years ago.
When the kids were younger I kept them supplied with single-use/disposables. As they've grown and the world transitioned to digital I've supplied them all with a decent digital point and shoot. None of them, boys or girls, want to carry an SLR. They are more interested in getting photos than the equipment. On the other subject, I've mentioned before that, by a large margin, more women than men sign up for my photo classes. Overall, there are more point and shooters, but the trend is to a much larger percentage of SLRs. See you later, gs <http://georgesphotos.net> On 10/22/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a message dated 10/22/2006 8:43:53 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > it is a truism* that historically most artists, sculptors etc. are > also men, and men are supposedly more visually-oriented than women. So > a non-gearhead explanation could be that men are more likely to want > to go out and take pictures. > ====== > Phsaw, phooey, and crap. Double crap. > > Culturally over the centuries women were held back from becoming artists, > etc. Had to have babies and feed the male hordes, including male artists and > sculptors, etc. Their place was in the home, they had smaller brains, they > were > illogical, all emotional, couldn't manage complicated tasks, understand > technical things, etc. For instance, I grew up when there were no women news > anchors > on TV, and the most available jobs for women were: teacher, teller, > stewardress, nurse, and social worker -- the helper fields. It hasn't been > all that long > since gender prejudices were socially acceptable and active. And in some > instances still are, although women have made a lot of progress since the > 1960's. > And I am still only talking about Western cultures, since those prejudices are > still quite active, barring women from jobs, in other cultures. > > So now that Western women are supposedly "liberated" and supposedly can hold > any job, get back to me in another 200-1,000 years and see if those > artist/photographer percentages haven't changed. > > If you want you daughters to grow up enjoying photography, hand them a camera > young. > > As a female programmer, a very small minority in that field in my age group, > I am pretty familiar with gender stereotypes and unconscious assumptions and > prejudices. > > Arts and Crafts, quilting, needlepoint, lace making, sewing, etc. were > socially acceptable visual fields for women for centuries. They couldn't lift > a > brush, not appropriate for most past eras and places, but, boy, they were > allowed > to lift a needle. > > Have a Nice Day!, Marnie aka Doe > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
