Re: Gender issues and throwing

Michael Lorrey (retroman@tpk.net)
Sat, 25 Jan 1997 11:37:55 -0500


Dan Fabulich wrote:
>
> Girls, as you may have noticed, are definitely NOT pushed towards
> physical activity as children. Stereotypically, the boy plays little
> league baseball while the girl spends time at home with friends. The
> stereotypical boy learns competition, eye-hand coordination and 3D
> conceptualization, the girl learns cooperation, communication and
> intuition. Thus, the stereotypical boy throws better than the
> stereotypical girl.
>

However, I have also noticed that even the most athletic girls who play
baseball and softball with a similar mania as boys do, still are not as
proficient at overhand throwing as their male counterparts. Those that
come closest tend to have very masculine/malish builds.

-- 
TANSTAAFL!!!

Michael Lorrey ------------------------------------------------------------ President retroman@tpk.net Northstar Technologies Agent Lorrey@ThePentagon.com Inventor of the Lorrey Drive Silo_1013@ThePentagon.com

Website: http://www.tpk.net/~retroman/ Now Featuring: Mikey's Animatronic Factory http://www.tpk.net/~retroman/animations.htm My Own Nuclear Espionage Agency (MONEA) MIKEYMAS(tm): The New Internet Holiday Transhumans of New Hampshire (>HNH) ------------------------------------------------------------ Transhumanist, Inventor, Webmaster, Ski Guide, Entrepreneur, Artist, Outdoorsman, Libertarian, Arms Exporter-see below. ------------------------------------------------------------ #!/usr/local/bin/perl-0777---export-a-crypto-system-sig-RC4-3-lines-PERL @k=unpack('C*',pack('H*',shift));for(@t=@s=0..255){$y=($k[$_%@k]+$s[$x=$_ ]+$y)%256;&S}$x=$y=0;for(unpack('C*',<>)){$x++;$y=($s[$x%=256]+$y)%256; &S;print pack(C,$_^=$s[($s[$x]+$s[$y])%256])}sub S{@s[$x,$y]=@s[$y,$x]}