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Re: What do you think the percentage is of men that letterbo
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Reply to: #96105 by Amyrica
Jun 1, 2007 5:15am
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Quote Actually, someone did do a survey at one time for a college project! I kid you not!


She's not kidding. It was a Master's Thesis for a university in Ohio. I thought about this some time ago, searched for it, and found the abstract, but never got past that.

I think the consensus was that there are more female 'boxers than male 'boxers, but she admitted that the results may have been affected by the lack of response from the men she contacted about the poll.

SS
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Reply to: #96170 by resQlou
Jun 1, 2007 5:25am
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I understand! My name is Desiree, but I often go by Desi. I guess it's because of Desi Arnez... but I often get junkmail and spam emails and telemarketers that call me Mr. Desi Glaze. I don't like it!
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Reply to: #96134 by Mr Yuk
Jun 1, 2007 5:53am
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Quote Take that with the fact that there aren't many of us that ARE single, and multiply that by the percentage of desirability, I would say it's few and far between that letterboxers hook up THROUGH letterboxing.


Hey now, I am single and ridiculously desirable, thank-you-very-much!!!
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Reply to: #96208 by The Wolf Family
Jun 1, 2007 6:26am
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Well we represent one man and one woman. We're just balanced like that. hehe
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Reply to: #96211 by IC Music Lovers
Jun 1, 2007 6:47am
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My man likes to letterbox, but he likes different aspects of it than i do. He hates city boxes, much prefers the hiking to get there boxes. He will probably never post here on AQ. I enjoy vsisting the boards and seeing what is going on with fewllow letterboxers. He doesn't really like gatherings, but doesn't hate them either. But we both like carving stamps and planting them!

't'
of the dtandfambly team: )
Re: What do you think the percentage is of men that letterbo
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Reply to: #96158 by Green Tortuga
Jun 1, 2007 6:52am
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Quote Actually, there are 10 kinds of people in the word. Those who know binary, and those that don't. *knowing nod*


Oh my ......

*rolling eyes and groaning but thinking of opportunities to reuse it!*
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Reply to: #96217 by the peas
Jun 1, 2007 6:54am
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I will be using this on my family!
Re: What do you think the percentage is of men that letterbo
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Reply to: #96153 by wassamatta u
Jun 1, 2007 7:12am
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Quote Her greatest fear is that someday, because of letterboxing, I will get a fanny pack.


Though I, too, fear the fanny pack, did you explain to her that fanny packs are ENTIRELY too small to hold a decent-sized log book, all your sig stamps and personal travelers, and ink pads and markers? :D You really need a backpack for this hobby. Tell her she should really be fearing the mini-backpack as opposed to the fanny pack! :D

-gollygee
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Reply to: #96219 by speedsquare
Jun 1, 2007 7:14am
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One female (me Judith) and one male (dog Sparky). The one guy I tried to get interested liked the hiking and planning hides aspect but didn't want to find, log, carve or do anything else.
Re: What do you think the percentage is of men that letterbo
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Reply to: #96145 by Green Tortuga
Jun 1, 2007 7:14am
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Quote Oh, there are a number of couples out there who met through letterboxing. *knowing nod* =)


Oh thank god, I'm really hoping to find someone for my friend Mike (who is perpetually single, sarcastic, and loves meat. Ladies? Any takers? :D), and since I don't meet new friends any other way I figured maybe taking him to an event might give him a chance at the dating world. :D He's my boyfriend's best friend and he's so nice, has a good job, would treat a gal like gold, he's just not putting any effort into finding someone though. It's sad.

-gollygee
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Reply to: #96154 by lisascenic
Jun 1, 2007 7:15am
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Quote Why the need to define things in terms of "manly" and non-manly polarities? I aspire to be a human being, not a gender stereotype.


Hear hear!

-gollygee
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Reply to: #96158 by Green Tortuga
Jun 1, 2007 7:16am
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Quote Actually, there are 10 kinds of people in the word. Those who know binary, and those that don't. *knowing nod*

In any case, not to worry, while I haven't done any scientific studies to prove or disprove the matter, it at least appears you have actually achieved the goal of being a human being. No longer are you just an aspirer. =)


HA! Love it! :D

-gollygee
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Reply to: #96178 by oread
Jun 1, 2007 7:18am
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Quote I also jump off cliffs, camp where there are no restrooms and will backpack until I drop. I have no fear of getting dirty!


Like a true LBH!!! :)
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Reply to: #96208 by The Wolf Family
Jun 1, 2007 7:22am
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Quote letterboxing is definitely NOT a "girly" hobby


But being a girly hobby is not a bad thing and should not be equated with wussy (for lack of a better word). Being a girly hobby can and should mean that it requires just as much energy, stamina, creativity, artistic ability, etc as any "manly" hobby! :) There should NOT be any gender association with any hobby at all, there should just be physically challenging hobbies and non-physically challenging hobbies! :)

-gollygee
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Reply to: #96231 by gollygee
Jun 1, 2007 7:24am
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Oh thank god, I'm really hoping to find someone for my friend Mike (who is perpetually single, sarcastic, and loves meat. Ladies? Any takers?


I have a few friends in PA if he wants to travel. One is blond, very smart (has 3 degrees) great job, When daddy kicks will be stinking rich and has a great body package to top it all off. She's my best friend so you know she can't be that bad.
Any single Guys in the NE PA area that might want to get introduced to her let me know I’ll be up there at the end of the summer.

he's just not putting any effort into finding someone though. It's sad.

I think we all know some guy that fits that profile (LOL)
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Reply to: #96234 by gollygee
Jun 1, 2007 7:27am
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Like a true LBH!!! :)


All the way baby!!!! And PROUD of it.
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Reply to: #96241 by oread
Jun 1, 2007 7:37am
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The letterboxing survey for a thesis that someone referred to was taken by Anthrogradjess, who often posts on AQ. Maybe she will remind us of the results. (I didn't remember this, I had to go back through the Yahoo list).
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Reply to: #96064 by nwbulldog
Jun 1, 2007 7:44am
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Not had time to read all the posts on this subject. I would estimate that over here the split is fairly equal between the sexes.

Many of the boxes in our area are the result of mixed teams, though single planters are more likely to be male. Finders are mixed bunch, families, pairs and singles of either sex. I think, and I am open to correction here, that men are more likely to visit the wilder and more remote sites.

Personally I hunt variously as single male, paired with my wife, daughter or son, or as whole family.

DM
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Reply to: #96237 by gollygee
Jun 1, 2007 8:29am
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Quote letterboxing is definitely NOT a "girly" hobby


But being a girly hobby is not a bad thing and should not be equated with wussy (for lack of a better word). Being a girly hobby can and should mean that it requires just as much energy, stamina, creativity, artistic ability, etc as any "manly" hobby! :) There should NOT be any gender association with any hobby at all, there should just be physically challenging hobbies and non-physically challenging hobbies! :)

-gollygee


Girly?!?, Please!! LOL

This is one of the best hobbies for the whole family. Myself, My wife and daughter, love to carve. I like to come up for ways to get creative with hiding new boxes along with new cool places to see. My wife likes to make log books, her carving is getting really good too!!

My daughter loves coming up with ways to make boxes to poke fun at our local Mainekokopellian.. . .

This is a great hobby for everyone. It gets the creative juices flowing, makes you think, makes you laugh, gets you off your butt to get outside, etc.... I can't think of any other hobby that has peak all of our interests as a hobby.

As I stated before, Girly?!?, please...

-Buxton Boxers

(of course I could be the exception to the rule)

BTW I totally agree with gollygee..

Quote There should NOT be any gender association with any hobby at all, there should just be physically challenging hobbies and non-physically challenging hobbies! :)


I might add, or a mixture of both..... he he he
Re: What do you think the percentage is of men that letterbo
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Reply to: #96153 by wassamatta u
Jun 1, 2007 8:32am
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Quote My wife (I am male, in case you hadn't guessed) will have nothing to do with boxing, despite my and my 6-year old daughter's best efforts to convert her. Her greatest fear is that someday, because of letterboxing, I will get a fanny pack.


i have tried to convert my wife too, but no luck. just not her cup of tea.. oh well. that means more boxes for me to find then.
i was brought into this hobby by "my sibling". sibling tried for a year to get me going, but it wouldnt work. then one day "BAM", it hit me and i have been hooked ever since.
and i did start out with a fanny pack. boy the ribbing i endured from my kids...
but now i have graduated to a backpack covered with patches. that way if i am seen on the trail someone might know what i am doing.
but if im in the craft section or checking out markers and inkpad in the stores? thats when i am looking to see if anyone is checking to see what i am doing there. but, really i dont care. let them check on me.
i love this game. i am not as involved as i would like to be sometimes, but thats ok. i am even going to host my first ever gather this fall. so there....

and to answer your question? i think the percentage is probly low. 15 to 20 % is my guess.

later, dragonrider83338
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Reply to: #96064 by nwbulldog
Jun 1, 2007 8:34am
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Maybe letterboxing events would be a good indicator of percentage. I've never been to one, but saw a few event group photos. Seems to be more women to men in the photos, maybe 2/3 women 1/3 men.
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Reply to: #96271 by Lone R
Jun 1, 2007 8:49am
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Quote Maybe letterboxing events would be a good indicator of percentage. I've never been to one, but saw a few event group photos. Seems to be more women to men in the photos, maybe 2/3 women 1/3 men.


I've only been to two but that seems about the right ratio. :)
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Reply to: #96153 by wassamatta u
Jun 1, 2007 8:51am
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Quote Her greatest fear is that someday, because of letterboxing, I will get a fanny pack.
-wassamatta_u


???? And just WHAT does she think is wrong with a fannypack???

My wife bought me a fannypack when I started hiking a lot, about a year and a half ago. When I went out, I wanted to make sure I had some basics like a couple of band aids and some water. But it was starting to fall apart when I found out about letterboxing, and adding the stamp, pad, and logbook just put it over the edge.

I took a trip to the local Army/Navy store and grabbed an ammo belt and some general purpose pouches, and already had an old matching canteen. The 'boxing stuff now has its own pouch that I just add to the belt when I expect to need it, and the other stuff just stays permanently in place. Keeps it all out of my hands, and the weight low where I hardly even notice it.

Of course, I can relate to "falling outside the norm". My school bookbag was a backpack - in the '60s, LONG before it was considered "cool".
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Reply to: #96181 by BrewHiker
Jun 1, 2007 9:01am
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I like letterboxing and am starting to become a loner at it because the kids are kinda wishy washy about it, my wife isn't into it, and my male friends think it's a stupid waste of time (and unmanly). Oh well, takes all kinds.
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Reply to: #96237 by gollygee
Jun 1, 2007 9:06am
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I'm guessing that this board is not the place for long, drawn out political/socio-economic discussions (unless there is a catagory specifically for that?) so I'll respond in brief.

Personally, I prefer to live and act in the real world and as much we'd like to overlook and ignore gender stereotypes (and other types of stereotypes) they exist. They have and always will. There is not a darn thing we can do about it. That's reality. If trying to change the system - or dare I say the way we are hardwired - floats your boat, then more power to you but the system will not be changed. Of course different stereotypes have different levels of impact and I think most of us would agree that a gender stereotype has much less of a impact then a racial stereotype.

As far as a man doing a "girly" activity and it suddenly becoming negative...people are missing the point. The activity itself is not what is in question. Nor the fact that it is normally associated with the female gender. It is when it is associated with the male gender. This happens all the time to different extremes. Why do we find it funny (well, most of us at least) when man wears a dress and makeup on Halloween? It is not the dress or the makeup or the woman that normally wears them that is in question, it is when it's paired up with the man. It does not mean it is negative and that the woman is "negative" and is somehow less "equal" then men. (which is what I suspect this type of argument stems from) That's just the way it is...

Personally...and this is merely my opinion...I think we are hard wired - you decide who it's from, God, god, Allah, a tree, whatever - into our gender roles. Yes, society does teach us and ingrain it into our noggin all the time and mommy encouraged little Sally to play with barbies and not little Johnny...BUT...for the most part...that's just how we are. And by "we" I mean men and women.

I revel in the fact that men and women are different! That's why I like women so much! LOL...because they are different then me! They are pretty, smell good and have curves in all the right places and I don't! Thank god for that!

There are aspects of this hobby that appeal to both genders. I would guess - for the most part - that more women are drawn to the designing and creating of stamps a bit more then the men. (although ALREADY there is an exception to this as I have always loved the arts and crafts stuff) And possibly...MAYBE that the men are more interested in the hike, the find and the end result of finding that stamp and putting that image in our book so we can fill the whole darn thing up and get a new book!!!! (we are very competitive - again...hardwired) Now I KNOW THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS TO THE RULE so don't bother flaming me and I already admitted that I'm one of them.

I could go on forever and maybe I'll blog about this but this argument gets my panties in a knot. (ha ha! see! great example...a man wearing panties! that is not the norm so it is funny!) I started this thread in a very lighthearted way and that's the way it was intended.

Women are gatherers.
Men are hunters.

The end...lol
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Reply to: #96283 by Jaxx
Jun 1, 2007 9:36am
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Quote and my male friends think it's a stupid waste of time (and unmanly).


Dare them to do some of these then...

http://www.letterboxing.org/BoxView.php?boxnum=22573&boxname=4,338'
http://www.letterboxing.org/BoxView.php?boxnum=28430&boxname=Bat_Boxes
http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/showboxinfo.html?gBoxId=15708
http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/clue/index.html?gBoxId=11771
http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/clue/index.html?gBoxId=34735

They may not be in your area, but you get the idea. Or plant some like it. ;) It's not all about the box, it's the adventure getting there...
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Reply to: #96184 by drgdlg
Jun 1, 2007 9:54am
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but I often get junkmail and spam emails and telemarketers that call me Mr. Desi Glaze. I don't like it!


That always surprises me--if I were sending out junk mail, I wouldn't assume any gender. I've met a number of woman over the years with the first name of Ryan--thank goodness I never dated any of them. That could get confusing!

If I were going to send out junk mail or cold call people, though, I wouldn't ask for Mr. or Mrs.--I'd just ask for whatever their name is. It just sounds stuffy to me when people call me Mr. Ryan Carpenter. I feel like replying, "He's not here right now... oh, wait, you mean ME?!" =)

-- Ryan
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Reply to: #96213 by dtandfambly
Jun 1, 2007 11:00am
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My hubby isn't as into it as I am, but he does enjoy the "seeing places we didn't know where there" aspect of it. He lets me carve and make my cute little logbooks, but he just helps with the hunts.....when I can talk him out of golf, and into boxing with us! LOL!!!

BUT....he loves going to gatherings!!! He is very much a people person, and loves to hang out with everyone! He is starting to come around about the hobby a bit more....I got him interested the other night when I mentioned a new box I want to do! LOL!!! But, I don't think that I could get him to carve with me, it just isn't his thing. *shrug*

moonshowr
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Reply to: #96286 by nwbulldog
Jun 1, 2007 8:46pm
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Quote The end...lol


Ha ha. Welcome to Atlas Quest, nwbulldog. I'm sure you didn't mean to offend, but you did. Probably more than you think. And I know this should be in a private AQmail, but making this discussion private does not a) show that there is dissent and b) show that people who might take offense have support/allies/company.

I'm not interested in starting anything, I'm just saying that some people on here probably don't agree with your perspective.

happy hunting,

dorks anonymous of dem xx men
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Reply to: #96479 by dorks anonymous
Jun 1, 2007 9:12pm
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This post and all the responses - not even CLOSE to the "competition" - gets MY vote for best post for the first half of 2007 on AQ..

And I'm not even going to chime in with my own views/comments (smarta**/provoking for the sake of being provocative, etc/etal or otherwise)....for now.

Not that we're voting or anything.

I'd just like to say: Thanks! Terrific reading.

preboxed
Denver, CO