Why do you think girls don't skate?

I skatebored, sometimes… :)

same reason girls, or women: “dont box”
They do boxercise, hahaha.
generalizations are crap.

Their hips aren’t designed for that sort of repetitive pushing-off-the-ground motion.

@FutureMemory, nahhh- maybe it’d take a little more work, but totally do-able.

They’re too delicate… who wants to see a lovely flower sprawled in a radical faceplant?

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I bladed for years- best place was 2 AM along the baggage claim road section of Ronald Reagan airport. Best speed strip for blades in DC.

On a more serious note—the hardcore skaters didn’t take too kindly to having girls around. I think it might have to do with faceplanting in front of males is very different than faceplanting in front of a girl. The girls that did get accepted into the ‘circle’ were only marginally accepted (pun intended).

We’re not all fragile flowers. haha
But I do understand where your coming from. I skate sometimes, still learning how to not fall, But I’m not afraid of getting hurt.

Dude. I fucking love to skate. I’ve been at it since for about 8 years now.

(@pizzaroo… I was being sarcastic. There’s nothing fragile or flowery about me either :D)

@linguaphile
It’s hard to tell on a computer. :L

@pizzaroo you’ll get the hang of it if you hang around here long enough!! Welcome to Fluther!!

@boxer3 I was just kiddin’ ;)

@FutureMemory, that makes me happy hahaha. I was just like- uh…. really man… c’mon now this guys gotta be screwing around. haha. :]

@linguaphile
Thanks!

It’s a rough sport, as many of you have pointed out. Girls have to overcome instincts in order to do it well. This is doable, but it has to be done.

I had a female lacrosse coach in my office once. She was studying how girls played team sports. It seems that any time a girl got hurt, all the rest of the girls would crowd around and ask if the injured girl was ok. What they should be doing is continuing play.

Guys do that. I don’t know if it is instinctive, or learned early, but they are focused on what needs to be done and will attend to the fallen comrade when they are done. Or one person will attend to the injured person while the rest play on. In war, if you all crowded around a fallen comrade, they’d all be dead.

Girls have to learn how to do this. Their instincts are to attend to the injury. This is all about average behavior, not individual behavior which could vary quite dramatically.

Extrapolating, I’d say that girls, on average, are more afraid of getting hurt than boys are.

Of course, I’ve seen more and more girls “skating” in the last few years. Learning to ignore scrapes and burns is doable. Probably most boys had to do it, but it’s not considered a girl thing. But once they learn, I’m sure it’s not a big deal to join the fraternity, so to speak.

I used to skate when I was around 12. I used to love it! But then football ( British ) took over my life.

They’re too smart? Maybe it’s because they have a different center of gravity?

It’s too much fun watching boys make fools of themselves.

i’m not a fan of falling down and/or getting hurt, too much skill for so little means of transportation.

I’m a 44 year old woman, and I had a skateboard when I was a kid. I wasn’t too into the big skills or anything, but I rode that thing all over town.

Because woman have been taught to act like a gentle flower since the beginning of time! We have been oppressed! We are taught to think that we are not capable of not only skating but many other things. When in reality we are just as good, if not better.

Back in the day(not as much today), men wanted us in the kitchen and to never leave the house. It was common knowledge that women were to not leave the house, or even have there own opinion. Generation after generation taught this to their children, after so long women started to get tired of it. Now we are starting to see the changes. So maybe in about ten years or so, the skate parks will have the same amount of women as men!