A common experience for Kendo women?

[JByrd]

After listening to a conversation between some of the women at my club, I started to wonder: How many of you Kendo women were given a short, boyish, haircut, and treated like a tomboy as a kid?

[Lone Kitten]

After listening to a conversation between some of the women at my club, I started to wonder: How many of you Kendo women were given a short, boyish, haircut, and treated like a tomboy as a kid?

come on... this really isn't a nice thread. There are lots of girly girls who do kendo. plz don't be so narrow minded. You don't have to fit a certain mold to do kendo. u have been warned

[Ignatz]

u have been warned

Hope that is a joke and you just forgot the smily face thingy.

[Lone Kitten]

Hope that is a joke and you just forgot the smily face thingy.

i joke not

[Omnis]

Relax, kitten. He's not saying every female kendoka is a leather-strapping, metal-clad buzzcut interstate biker queen...

[Neil Gendzwill]

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

[Ignatz]

i joke not

That is really a shame. To seriously respond in that way to JByrd's post makes me concerned. If you have plonk power it should be removed.

I don't think your response was very nice and is very, very narrow minded. My wife could climb trees with the best of them and looked great to me dressed to the nines or in jeans. Lighten up.

[Lone Kitten]

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

damn... so my latex biker gear isn't appropriate then?

[Lone Kitten]

hey come on... i was teasing.. could u not tell by m response to your fisrt post?

[Solinde]

After listening to a conversation between some of the women at my club, I started to wonder: How many of you Kendo women were given a short, boyish, haircut, and treated like a tomboy as a kid?

Why? Only very few of us have started kendo as children, so why should the kendo affect our childhoods?

[Naginatagirl]

Hm. I wasn't treated as a tomboy, I was a tomboy. I wasn't given a hair cut, I asked for it. Long hair gets in the way when you're a kid. Granted...I ended up growing my hair to my hips and now own more skirts than pants. Got sick of short hair and shorts. Then naginata came and the hair was way too inconvient. Chop. Then kendo came and I grew it out a bit again.

I think there's a difference between being a tomboy (i.e. sporty and active) and being an "interstate biker queen" (though that's cool too). I just never had the patience for hopscotch when there was a soccer game going on. sorry ;P

[Ignatz]

Sorry, that's why I asked.
And latex is sooooooo last millenium.

[Lone Kitten]

my mood is v hard to read

[stephanie dee]

I am a complete mismatch at the best of times, so I have to be ackward and be both. As a child I always had long blonde hair, played with Barbies, loved children and all that. But I also used to climb trees, play football, fight with the lads...

As i've grown up I am still cnsidered very girly, but not a "girly girl". I think I kinda summed myself up when I went on an Army trip a few years ago, in which I volenteered to run the assualt course first and on my own. I feel off the 6ft wall, and cursed very loudly, not because I had bust my nose, but becasue my mascara was running. Yes, I insisted in wearing makeup for the whole time. Man I was gutted.

Hm, I'm not a girly girl, but not a tomboy either. I'm in the middle and always have been. I won't leave the house without makeup, I cleanse tone and mosturise every day, yet I want to drive a Motorbike and fight with the lads. And i;ve never had short hair.

[Ignatz]

my mood is v hard to read

I think I posted this on another thread but it bears repeating.
A guy is walking on the beach and finds a lamp. He, of course, rubs it and don't you know, out comes a genie.
The genie says, "I'll give you one wish and if it is possible will grant it"
The guy says, "I like Hawaii but i don't like flying or boats. I would like you to build a bridge from california to Hawaii so I can drive there."
The genie says, "Impossible. Think of something else"
"OK " says the guy, "How about making it so I can understand women"
"How many lanes do you want on the bridge?" says the genie.