i guess any mtf or anyone who knows could answer. i'm mtf, and one of my hobbies is video games. there is a stereotype that video games are a male thing, and not for girls, and that they aren't smart enough to know how to use electronics. there's alot of standards like that against girls, but what hobbies are a girl supposed to have? it seems like society thinks their job is just to look pretty and sit on the sidelines. so, what hobbies do you have?
Girls can:
-Experiment with makeup
-Dye hair
-Cut hair
-Draw
-Dance
-Sew
-Design Clothes
And. . . I can't think of anything else for now.
Quote from: SilverFang on January 24, 2010, 03:11:36 PM
Girls can:
-Experiment with makeup
-Dye hair
-Cut hair
-Draw
-Dance
-Sew
-Design Clothes
And. . . I can't think of anything else for now.
and then there's baking :D
Girls can do whatever they please. No need to restrict yourself because of gender.
Women can:
-Experiment with the fundamental forces of nature
-Dye slides for investigation under an electron microscope
-Cut ski tracks down steep couloirs on high Alpine peaks
-Draw up legal contracts
-Dance with death reporting from war zones
-Reap profits
-Design microchips
And. . . do damn near anything else they feel like.
Girl gamers are a social norm now. You don't have to worry about that.
Quote from: Lachlann on January 24, 2010, 03:30:45 PM
Girl gamers are a social norm now. You don't have to worry about that.
it is more of a social norm today, but there's still some people who think differently.
Quote from: NicoleFoxFan on January 24, 2010, 03:37:58 PM
it is more of a social norm today, but there's still some people who think differently.
There's always going to be people who think differently no matter what the social norm is. Do whatevs.
How about auto mechanics? I know that there are at least three on this forum.
I like to garden/landscape, watch tv/movies, listen to and play music, paint, play video games (with friends, rarely on my own) ... read, be active, cook, ect, ect... goes on. Gender is not a reason to limit yourself to certain hobbies... do whatever you enjoy. :P
How about auto mechanics? I know that there are at least three on this forum.
There are two all-female auto shops in SF that I know of.
You do whatever you enjoy.
As far as I know, the only thing girls can't do is eat a Yorkie.
http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2002/05/not_for_girls_t (http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2002/05/not_for_girls_t)
Added because this is really funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH2pLzdeCP0&feature=related# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH2pLzdeCP0&feature=related#)
I used to think "well, I like football, baseball, videogames, sci-fi movies, etc... that means I'm not trans."
Thankfully, I don't think like that anymore :)
When I was younger I loved tinkering about with cars. I had a thing for hopping up the engines on "plain Jane" looking cars >:-)
I'll never give up football or baseball although I'm just a spectator now
I mostly like to play guitar, bicycling and gardening these days :icon_chick:
Sail around the world? Become Olympic champions? Start businesses? Run for public office?
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Women are allowed to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, be powerful politicians, be doctors and phychologists. If your'e looking for a more common stereotypical female hobby to feel more feminine rather than to fit in better I can understand that, maybe try reading, jogging, crafts, or creative writing?
Now I probably look like pretty sexist. I thought you wanted the stereotypes.
Of course, do whatever you feel like.
in-line skate and mountain bke riding are my 2 favs
use to semi-pro race motorcross ;D
"Girls" can do whatever they damned well please.
As for me, I spend my free time reading (especially alt comics), working on my art, listening to and collecting music, and going to art openings and punk shows now and then. I do the occasional movie or video game, as well.
I wish I could say that I spend all my time on construction sites, but I don't. ;D
Guy watching maybe?
For me I'd say I defiantly play video games (MMORPG) while on the road and at home.
During home time I sew and get my Peterbilt washed and then I spend hours waxing and shining it up for going back out on the road.
I am pretty sure, all perfectly feminine. :D
Have a great day.
I think the idea of video games as a male hobby is basically outdated -- I mean it was definitely true when I was growing up, but these days, 50% of the game consoles in the US are owned by women, and there are millions of girls and women playing video games all the time. Nintendo DS/Wii and facebook games have played a big part, and iPhone games as well now I guess.
What's funny is that you could say I started cross-dressing in video games, before I was ready to accept that that was what I was doing. Any game where you could play a female character, that was my choice. And god help me once I got ahold of Sims 2...
Yes! I always played female characters in video games, as well. In fact, I'm willing to bet that playing cross-gender characters in video games, especially MMORPGs and related games (WoW, Second Life), is the most common form of "cross-dressing" in first-world countries. It would be pretty impossible to get stats on that, though. :D
In one online game, you have to be female to do a quest. You have to pay for and get a sex change if you want to get the quest points. The quest does return those funds for a reversal if you want it afterwards.
Ok I will bite.
I have dinner parties for my friends, which means I also cook, I wash the dishes, (I don't dry), I make quilts, I crochet and I have always done so. I clean the house top to bottom. (I don't put out the rubbish), I read trashy romantic stories, when I can get my hands on them (yeah mills and boon). I think that should do it!! ;D
Kind regards
Sarah B
Does riding a hobby horse count?
Does wondering how this post ended up in "gender studies" count?
It would be pretty impossible to get stats on that, though.
Yeah, could you please tell me honestly about all your on-line lying? Yeah, that's kinda problematic. If you opening assumption is that people are not telling you the truth, why do you think they will be honest in talking about it?
That's why each and every sex study has to be taken with - not a grain of salt, but more like a couple of salt mines, as everybody lies about sex (particularly to themselves).
Tried gaming... never really got on with it, but i can't see that it's any less valid for a girl than a boy.
Personally my hobbies are reading, writing, photography, cooking and amateur dramatics/singing - I am lucky enough to be able to sing contralto and I tackle everything from opera to folk music. I'm not very good but I enjoy...
I don't think it really matters what your hobbies are gender-wise. Some of my hobbies are totally girlie but I have to do them in drab. For example, scrap-booking. When I go to Scrapmania, I have to be dressed as a boy because I don't really think I'm passable enough to show up as a girl. All the girls just assume I'm very effeminate. On the flip-side, my favorite hobby is back-country hiking. I think this may be seen as a stereo-typically male hobby, but it's actually where I started going out dressed up. Girl hikers have the *cutest* outfits and, really, there's so few people out there it doesn't really matter what you're wearing.
I suppose I have a mix of both gender's hobbies. For exercise, I like running and yoga. For crafts, I like scrapping, sewing and baking. For fun, I like hiking, music, shopping, kayaking and video games. The most boyish hobby I have is woodworking. The most girlish hobby I have is probably homemaking.
~Jasmine :icon_chick:
I know quite a few girls who are gamers. I'm not really into it, but if my friends are playing Halo or whatever I can kick it with them. ;) My girlfriend used to be into gaming, but she doesn't so much anymore. Sometimes, however, we'll geek out and play old school Mario for a few hours.
Oh my gosh...I was trying to think about my current hobbies...I think college killed it.
Just want to have fun.
Ahh lost the video link
Quote from: CindyJames on March 16, 2010, 02:24:08 AM
Just want to have fun.
Ahh lost the video link
Your a Cindy Lauper girl? I happen to like her. True colors mostly. Mainly cause I'm finally getting to show my true colors but anyway......
Lately I've been clothes shopping. I am also looking at bangles, necklaces, and accessories b/c a nice summer night would be a good time to wear them.
For the most part, however, I like dabbling with computers. I'd like to pick up some new hobbies such as piano but lessons would need to come first... which probably is expensive. Sometime in the future for sure!
Something I'm dreaming about once I'm back from Montreal is to take ballet.
Do they let old people in classes?
They do here at least, I found several schools that offer ballet to adults, including beginners.
I still want to know why this is in "gender studies." ;D
It's rather obvious... It took years of planning and versing everyone involved just to place this tread here in gender studies to drive people Nuts, Coo Coo, A Wacky Wacky Wacky LOONY TUNES... LOL
for the record, Gaming isn't a hobby, it's a way of life, and any so-called gamers who would disagree isn't a gamer. But as far as my hobbies go, it's just this, Magic: The Gathering Gotta say I love my Red/Black Artifact deck. Another hobby of mine is Debating people. But Again I must say, GAMING ISN'T A HOBBY ANY GAMER WHO CLAIMS IT AS ONE ISN'T A TRUE GAMER
Right, just like crossdressers aren't "true transgender people." Lawlz.
Git off yer high horse. ::)
I always thought that a 'lifestyle' was something you made your life in and could make your life from. So a 'game designer' or even a 'game tester' sure. A 'player' no.
I've always fancied shooting clay pigeons or I think it's called skeet in the USA. Anyone do it?
Cindy
non-gamers just don't understand anything about gaming, actally gamers know what I'm talking about. If you Live, Breath, Eat, Drink gaming then you understand that it IS a lifestyle, unless you do that, then you will never understand what it means to be a gamer. Oh and this so-called high horse I'm on is well deservsed, I've been a gamer since age 2, started with Super Mario Bros on the NES. Gaming isn't a hobby it is a LIFESTYLE PERIOD. Only non-gamers say otherwise. Gaming is my all, aside from transation it takes my all.
cross country mountain biking and a bit of downhilling, which seems to be able to keep the increase in tummy size down, which I gained when I was prescribed estrogen
We used to shoot a lot of skeet when I lived in the country, had a full archery range too. Sadly, such activities are somehow frowned upon by the neighbors in an urban setting however, so I don't get to do much anymore.
I love my bikes, long rides through the vineyards, along the creeks, from town to town and at a place near here called Annadale. It has some pretty dense forests, redwood groves, lakes, rock gardens, high ridge trails overlooking both the Santa Rosa Valley and the Valley of the Moon, about 35 miles of five star rated trails in all. If you've ever up this way, its some of the best cross country you can ride.
QuoteIt has some pretty dense forests, redwood groves, lakes, rock gardens, high ridge trails overlooking both the Santa Rosa Valley and the Valley of the Moon, about 35 miles of five star rated trails in all. If you've ever up this way, its some of the best cross country you can ride.
Its been far too long since I rode some of the trails in CA, the scenery is indeed spectacular... and all the spills and nose dives add to the experience :) Now that I have returned to the UK to live, the rides can be just as scenic and tough even though the mountains aren't as high but the weather is the downside :(
Yeah, the weather deal can be a bit of a drag, I don't mind cold, but I can live without wet for the most part. But we do Annadale in the huge rains because that's when all the waterfalls are going, even if the trails are slicker than snot. But today is crystal clear and going to be in the high 70s, so I'm meeting my brother a bunch of friends (male and female) and we're going to trailer our bikes up to the top of Mount Tamalpais (2,574 feet) just jet down the trails to Stinson Beach, it's about 99% downhill, easy.
But no matter what, the important thing is to get out and ride.
QuoteBut no matter what, the important thing is to get out and ride.
Absolutely, there is nothing better ;D
Wait -- mountain biking in Marin County? What kind of a crazy idea is that? ;)
Crazy right? But everybody said Gary Fisher was crazy, so there you have it.
(For those that don't know, Mt. Tam in Marin was where the first mountain bikes were invented, sold and used.)
I haven't had a hobby before, really, until just recently. I've begun writing. And it's... becoming consuming. It's frustrating beyond the concept of words how fleeting inspiration is if you don't write things down immediately. It haunts me. I need a waterproof tape recorder.
Quote from: Carolyn on March 22, 2010, 03:51:38 AM
for the record, Gaming isn't a hobby, it's a way of life, and any so-called gamers who would disagree isn't a gamer. But as far as my hobbies go, it's just this, Magic: The Gathering Gotta say I love my Red/Black Artifact deck. Another hobby of mine is Debating people. But Again I must say, GAMING ISN'T A HOBBY ANY GAMER WHO CLAIMS IT AS ONE ISN'T A TRUE GAMER
non-gamers just don't understand anything about gaming, actally gamers know what I'm talking about. If you Live, Breath, Eat, Drink gaming then you understand that it IS a lifestyle, unless you do that, then you will never understand what it means to be a gamer. Oh and this so-called high horse I'm on is well deservsed, I've been a gamer since age 2, started with Super Mario Bros on the NES. Gaming isn't a hobby it is a LIFESTYLE PERIOD. Only non-gamers say otherwise. Gaming is my all, aside from transation it takes my all.
I'll go ahead and bite. You're ranting, not debating. It would be an excellent opportunity for you to work on your other hobby and explain your viewpoint, especially since it was challenged briefly.
Gaming is actually a lifestyle, Tekla. You know, the staying up all night long, bottles and cans of beverages everywhere, forgetting to brush your teeth, thinking that you can wear underwear more than one day, dirty socks, eyes that can't focus in daylight, I ... really don't want to continue the list. The gamer lifestyle.
Boom, headshot.
You know, the staying up all night long, bottles and cans of [adult] beverages [and coffee] everywhere, forgetting to brush your teeth, thinking that you can wear underwear more than one day, dirty socks, eyes that can't focus in daylight
Hey I've done that twice as a life - not a lifestyle now. First was writing the dissertation, second, that pretty much what life is like as a show dog when you have a big run like I will this week (3 nights of Faith No More, then Passion Pit, then Orbital) or the week I'm going to spend doing production for the Big Hippie Roundup in Angel's Camp at the end of May - but I guess the difference between that and a 'lifestyle' is at the end of it I don't get to the next level, I just get a huge farking check or a Doctorate. Seems a better use of time.
Yeah, unless you're a professional korean starcraft player (6 figure salaries), it generally doesn't pay...
Though think of the money you save on toothpaste, deodorant, real food, and not having a social life from 18-35 when your parents finally die from disappointment and shame.
I love knitting, Iv done a few sweaters, Iv also done a sweater dress for myself, done some crochet which I find very rewarding and relaxing, I love working with wool, then if the weather is nice outside I love gardening and working with plants.
Some of my hobbies when Im in the mood are just totally girly like fashion, style, clothes and makeup.
p
Well, we've had a black president, so how about a female smurf next?
Rhalkos,
That's cute! :D
~Jasmine
Quote from: Autumn on April 08, 2010, 11:26:07 AM
Yeah, unless you're a professional korean starcraft player (6 figure salaries), it generally doesn't pay...
Though think of the money you save on toothpaste, deodorant, real food, and not having a social life from 18-35 when your parents finally die from disappointment and shame.
It also depends if you're casual or not.
Bet you anything, though, with the way e-sports are turning out that it's going to hit mainstream and people will be able to get a job out of it. Some people do right now. They got sponsors for this stuff now in the western part of the world already.
Quote from: Laura91 on April 28, 2010, 08:12:34 AM
I like to play around with experimental noise stuff (and annoy the neighbors >:-))
I like to sit back, relax, and listen to Merzbow. ;D
Yeah, but most of your neighbors listen to Merzbow also, at the least the ones who don't think he has 'sold out' or 'gone commercial' they listen to Decomposed Subsonic or some other group that has not been tainted by success.
Being "successful" in the noise scene is like being a "famous" finger puppeteer.
And no, I don't live next door to people who listen to Merzbow, although that would be pretty schweet. The folks across the street are pretty fond of terrible Chinese pop music with cringe-inducing synthesizers, though.
Yeah, except that Shonen Knife are Japanese, and what they do like most of Japanese pop culture is a weird, backdoor kind of tribute to Western pop/rock, and not the Chinese pop, which, like just about everything Chinese, is way different stuff.
That and the two cultures really, really don't like each other on a level few Westerners can begin to understand.
Never spent much time around Japanese culture and Chinese culture have you? They might seem similar from a distance, but they are very different, and, as I said, they really, really don't like each other at all.
And the music is very different. Very little Japanese music (except the pure traditional stuff) is written in the traditional Japanese pentatonic scale but rather in the Western heptatonic scale. But most Chinese pop music (like all traditional Chinese music) tends to be written in the pentatonic (and not the traditional Western scale), which to Western ears makes it sound rather sharp - screechy even - in most places. Chinese pop music though it uses more synths then an Asia/Yes concert, also incorporates guqin, banhu, yueqin and other instruments that were built and designed for a pentatonic scale, and still favors pentatonic scale singing - or what my friends calls, 'a bag of cats tossed into a river.'
Japanpop like Shonen Knife, or Dreams Come True, or the 5,6,7,8s, or Puffy Ami Yumi are using flat out Western scales and instrumentation to the point where it's almost impossible to tell its Japanese, you'll never mistake Chinese pop for Western stuff. About the most interesting difference is how much like the 5,6,7,8s, Puffy Ami Yumi, and Shonen Knife its all girls because of how much 'music' in Japan is still pretty much a female occupation.
Highly doubtful that anyone outside of the Chinese culture is listening to that. It's a very insular culture. It's by Chinese for Chinese people. Westerners are not encouraged, or even particularity welcome in that atmosphere. Where Japanpop wants a larger audience, and sings a lot of songs in English (which is why you've heard of Shonen Knife, they got at least a touch of radio airplay in the States), you'll never hear a China pop song done in English because it's a 'dog language' - fit for business, but never for culture.
They're listening to Chinese pop music because they're Chinese. About the only cultural goods that Chinese cultural producers seem to have any interest in exporting to the West are martial arts movies and food.
And yeah, J-pop is nothing like C-pop.
Now I want to listen to strange music and play ping pong :laugh:
And I'm craving Asian food
Yeah, I'm going to have to go out for some Szechuan, I can taste the Kung Pao now.
If you live in Iowa the ocean is something on postcards and vacations pictures. If you are a sailor on the coast, it's a living, breathing entity.
Likewise, if your not in the middle of this clash of cultures it might seem silly, or not important. But the view from the middle, when all of this is swirling in the day to day mix around you, it becomes part of the fabric of your life. If you are involved in any way with it - and SF, being one of the trade and financial centers for the entire Pacific Rim is a major player in it - then knowing can be the difference between staying in business and going bust.
It's also the polite thing (not to mention the culturally enriching thing) to know a little something about the people who live and work with you. For the people in those cultures and societies there is a lot of very serious bad blood, few Chinese people don't hold the Japanese occupation of China in WWII as a horrific milestone, with the Rape of Nanjing as it's centerpiece.
For those of us who are not intimately involved, the study of differing cultures, with their various music, foods, art etc. is a very rewarding hobby, if slightly fattening by the time you get to Dim Sum, or are exploring the differences between traditional Italian, Chinese and Mexican bakeries.
I'm actually with Tekla on this one. Chinese =/= Japanese, in the same way that Texan =/= Californian.
There are little things one notices over time: for example, I see old Chinese men on street corners busking for money with their erhu ("Chinese violin"), but I've never seen a Japanese lady busking with a koto or shamisen. Cultural difference, I guess, although I do wonder if the Chinese haven't simply managed to keep their traditional music more alive amongst ordinary people than the Japanese.
On the other hand, some of the Japanese handicrafts have been kept alive so well that one of them - origami - is routinely practiced by creatively-inclined American children as an antidote for boredom.
It will be fascinating seeing how cultures bend, shift and merge as part of globalization. Surely Japan can't keep its lock on status as the premier producer of nerdy "cool" forever, so who'll emerge next? Will we have floods of pasty white kids going to Indonesian cultural events in 10-20 years time? God only knows. It'll probably have to do with the flow of technological modernization and capital, causing some godforsaken country to grow up over night and sprout an innovative new industry in gaming, or comics, or something new that nobody's heard of yet.
gossiping perhaps ?
My hobbies are mainly RPG gaming, including table-top game design, reading, music, sculpting, painting, modern philosophy.. That sort of stuff. I wouldn't say gaming is a life-style; if it becomes that, I see it as escapism, nothing more. Yes; I spend a lot of time with games. I'm not trying to dive into it all-out, though it does seem to become more or less a job. I've been guild mistress for a WoW guild for a few years, and thát's a lot of work, if you're on most guild member's speed dial for when they get in real-life trouble. (Phone ringing at ungodly hours and stuff.)
My first 'cross dresser' experiments were secretly trying on my mom's heels, but my first active 'cross dressing' was in D&D. So not online.
When I discovered WoW, it was like a whole new world opened for me. It was the first ever computer game that kept my interest for more than fifteen minutes, and I went fully female. As far as other people were concerned: My character is female, and that's all you need to know about my gender. I never told people I was female; I just let them believe that. Well; there were a few bumps in the road, there, as one of my guildies fell in love with me. Picture that. Other people tried to get on with me, as well, and that's where I discovered how many men in video games are desperate. :o
Most people I play with know about my situation, now. But to be honest: That doesn't stop the flirting, though it became more playful, and less serious. And I'm more than fine with that; it feels like I'm appreciated for who I am, rather than what's between my legs.
I love building life size replicas from my favorite films. I even have my own stormtrooper armor! lol Can you say nerd?
I have to say that asking what :laugh: girls do for hobbies is a bit like asking what Germans eat for breakfast?
I'll bet if you ran this thread for long enough you would get thousands of different aswers. I have to say though that the pressure to care and spend time on your appearance is much higher for women therefore, I think that women generally spend more time on this (hair, make up, skin care, exercise, fashion etc.) I know that this may seem stereotypical (because it is!) but many women feel that they have to do this in order to acheive their goals in life. Others (like me) just think that it's a whole load of fun! :laugh: But it leaves less time for hobbies.
Oh and Germans like Cornflakes!
It's always seemed to me that many transgendered persons possess an odd sort of sexism within themselves regarding gender roles and gender appearance. This thread started what is probably the most sexist question I've ever seen here. I think any real woman would be very offended to even be asked this. It's quite absurd.
Perhaps if you lived in the 19th century it might seem appropriate to consider hobbies or work activities as appropriate to a gender, but not in the 21st century. While product marketers know there are areas of interest that have more participation by one gender than the other, I think there are no "girl's hobbies" or "boy's hobbies" anymore. Anything you like is something you can do. Period.
Lyric
Quote from: MillieB on May 28, 2010, 09:53:22 AM
I have to say that asking what :laugh: girls do for hobbies is a bit like asking what Germans eat for breakfast?
I'll bet if you ran this thread for long enough you would get thousands of different aswers. I have to say though that the pressure to care and spend time on your appearance is much higher for women therefore, I think that women generally spend more time on this (hair, make up, skin care, exercise, fashion etc.) I know that this may seem stereotypical (because it is!) but many women feel that they have to do this in order to acheive their goals in life. Others (like me) just think that it's a whole load of fun! :laugh: But it leaves less time for hobbies.
Oh and Germans like Cornflakes!
But do you pour milk or Fosters over them for an Aussie breakfast :laugh: :laugh:
Cindy Hic
I'm a big Star Wars nerd and I make life size replicas of props from those films and others. LOL ;D
Quote from: MillieB on May 28, 2010, 09:53:22 AM
I have to say that asking what :laugh: girls do for hobbies is a bit like asking what Germans eat for breakfast?
...
Oh and Germans like Cornflakes!
Funny, because in my circles 'a german breakfast' is a term that means 'any list of seemingly unlinked, random and incongruous objects' because there is so little theme to one. Rolls, toast, ham, car tires, cheese, doughnuts, nuts, squirrels, an elephant - that's a german breakfast.
Quote from: Pica Pica on May 31, 2010, 02:27:42 PM
Funny, because in my circles 'a german breakfast' is a term that means 'any list of seemingly unlinked, random and incongruous objects' because there is so little theme to one. Rolls, toast, ham, car tires, cheese, doughnuts, nuts, squirrels, an elephant - that's a german breakfast.
Okay, didn't know that, but it makes my original answer almost sensible now as I think that describes what girls do for hobbies nicely.
Quote from: MMarieN on January 24, 2010, 03:25:48 PM
Girls can do whatever they please. No need to restrict yourself because of gender.
Well said :D
Quote from: Lyric on May 28, 2010, 11:17:58 AM
It's always seemed to me that many transgendered persons possess an odd sort of sexism within themselves regarding gender roles and gender appearance. This thread started what is probably the most sexist question I've ever seen here. I think any real woman would be very offended to even be asked this. It's quite absurd.
Perhaps if you lived in the 19th century it might seem appropriate to consider hobbies or work activities as appropriate to a gender, but not in the 21st century. While product marketers know there are areas of interest that have more participation by one gender than the other, I think there are no "girl's hobbies" or "boy's hobbies" anymore. Anything you like is something you can do. Period.
Lyric
is there a need for the hostility? it's not like i was saying women shouldn't be allowed to vote, or that they should sit in the back of a bus. it was just an honest question. i wasn't trying to insult anyone, but what do i care. i started this thread months ago, i haven't been on since, and apparently i have nothing better to do with my time.
I don't have a problem with the thread and obviously others have enjoyed it also
The only thing I may have done different is word it "So what do all of you do for hobbies?"
my girl plays dress up. LOLLLL i guess thats one hobby for the girls :P
How about new hobbies. I have a hankering to try underwater hockey. It just sounds so silly :laugh:
Cindy
I do a lot of studying and playing video games. =\
But if you want to do something more typical... make me a sandwich?
Quote from: Heartwood on June 25, 2010, 03:47:13 AM
I do a lot of studying and playing video games. =\
But if you want to do something more typical... make me a sandwich?
Making Sandwiches is a brilliant hobby!!! :D I'm a a student of the 'Scooby Doo' method myself. ;)
Not making you one though, all for me! ;D
Quote from: MillieB on June 25, 2010, 05:33:15 AM
Making Sandwiches is a brilliant hobby!!! :D I'm a a student of the 'Scooby Doo' method myself. ;)
Not making you one though, all for me! ;D
On but I'm so hungry :( How about a cheese on pastrami with tomatoes and cheese and baked beans and more cheese with a poached egg) Please pretty please. :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
Hungry Cindy Ahhhh
I played aeroball this week - trampoline basketball.
I also played laserquest, shot some arrows, fenced, climbed a climbing wall and joked around - been a good week.
Quote from: Pica Pica on June 28, 2010, 03:57:15 PM
I played aeroball this week - trampoline basketball.
I also played laserquest, shot some arrows, fenced, climbed a climbing wall and joked around - been a good week.
Gee sounds like Robin Hood :laugh: :laugh:. What's laserquest?
Cindy
Laserquest is the same as lasergame. (Just recently discovered that. *proud face*)
It's like paintball, only without bruises, or actual aiming. :P Lazorgunz!
I used to go to LazorQuest all the time when I was around 10! I much prefer paintball even if it does hurt when you get shot. I like anything that gets adrenaline pumping.
Currently though due to lack of money Ive been playing guitar, video games and cycling. As soon as I have some money again I plan on going to the snow slope (Xscape for those familiar with it) to learn to snowboard and go on a huge shopping spree!
Quit a while ago I found a book, Girls Will Be Girls,
http://www.amazon.com/Girls-Will-Confident-Courageous-Daughters/dp/078686768X (http://www.amazon.com/Girls-Will-Confident-Courageous-Daughters/dp/078686768X)
I don't know if I agree with all of it but I found it interesting. This thread reminded me of it and I thought I would post a paragraph from it.
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Provided in an enjoyable was these early against-the-grain gender experiences help create a well balanced brain that is better equipped to handle the range of tasks and challenges the brain will have to contend with all through life. This concept can be expanded to many areas. Young girls need to be spending time in all of the areas that they are not as hardwired to choose early on of their own accord:
Gross motor tasks: skipping, riding a bike, climbing
Spatial tasks: puzzles, tangrams, carpentry, orienteering
Strategy and problem solving: team games and sports, checkers
Risk taking: doing anything that takes a bit of courage on a particular girl's part.
This can range tremendously by individual.
If you have a 20 percent girl, then she needs to spend more time on:
Fine motor tasks: painting, drawing, tying, zipping
Auditory tasks: books on tape, rhyming, reading poems and stories aloud
Sequential and detailed thinking: hidden word puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, putting things in order, alphabetizing
Connecting with others: cooperative play, volunteer work
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My current hobbies are:
Reading fantasy/sci-fi novels;
Playing guitar;
Watching TV; and
Playing disc golf (but only because my spouse likes it).
I played WoW for a year and then I quit. Every once in a while I buy a video game, but I don't finish it. They don't hold my interest anymmore.
I used to table top RPG, but it's been a while.
I want to write novels and record songs, but I can't summon the motivation.
It's pretty boring all around, but I'm going to have to find something to do when I run out of novels to read, and I'm getting there. I stopped reading for about ten years, and now I've been reading all the books I missed, but I'm almost caught up now.
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But the guys in that pic are still wayyy creepier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmfJ5Kq3OgY# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmfJ5Kq3OgY#)
Horseback riding. I don't think it's been mentioned but when you start competing it's so much fun (just don't go overboard) and it's not just for girls, I compete in Team Penning, sorting and working cow horse and I just love it, there nothing like it.
Kite Surfing and Parakarting also still like a bit of cross country cycling and now and then Radio Ham
we can do anything we like.
I love my cat, cooking, shopping for clothes and shoes, but I also love riding my motorbikes and have 4 of them in my garage. Don't like video games but each to their own.
In my opinion girls just as well as guys can have any hobbies they would like regardless of gender. I know pleanty of girls who likes to play video games and some other choice things. It depends on the individual basically in my opinion.
Whatever it is girls do, I am not really sure XD
I guess hang at the mall and shop. Thats all I can think of but do whatever you wanna do don't let your gender ID hold you back.
For me its outdoorsie stuff, so horses, boats and boots for walking hiking....
Cycling too..... i also luv playing tennis....
In the winter gym figures highly... as does movie collecting, concerts and music...too...
No different to many folks in fact....
Anything they want to do. ;D
I love the same hobbies I have always loved.
But now I have to add shopping.
Maybe it's not a hobby but an addiction. ;D
Also I love to go birdwatching and nature walks especially with others.
Jillieann
Well, if you are into guys, doing hobbies and activites that mainly attract guys is a good way and place to meet them! Guys love girls that like to hike, ride a motorcycle, play video games. Do what you like!
Not sure if this will count, but there's this girl that was doing a crossword puzzle at a bar at BJ's while having lunch.
I love building around the home, putting in concrete, brick work, painting etc..
I play pen and paper role-playing games
I am a drummer in a rock band
I write stories and poetry
I chat online
I like to cook.
Reading
O ooh I like to cooking too.
But I keep burning things. :embarrassed:
I'm eating Cajun brownies that I made. :icon_blah:
My spouse won't touch them.
Jillieann
I love cooking now that things are turning out much better than they use to :laugh:
Actually, I've gotten to the point were I don't really want to go out to eat because the grubs I make are much tastier and I can make them for much less... It would be nice to have a date now and then though ::)
Virginia could I come over and join you.
I could use some tips on not burning things and love the company.
The Netherworld, :o Oh no, sorry that too far to go.
But would have been fun. ;D
Jillieann
I'm a foodie, so here's my list of hobbies:
Wining and dining (of course)
Cooking (organizing the wining and dining)
Shopping (to get dressed for the wining and dining)
Running (to make up for the wining and dining)
Pilates (to keep the muscles toned from all the wining and dining)
Sailing (to keep from wining and dining)
Reading (to stop thinking about wining and dining)
MMO gaming (to virtually wine and dine)
Emma
I make hand made writing pens as a hobby and it has turned into a very lucrative side business. I have orders for "hundreds" of these made from the jawbone of american alligators. Don't even ask me how I got into this. It's a long boring story... I could quit my full time job at this point if I wanted and make more money just doing this.
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Gender and sex should not limit one's hobbies. My hobbies in include- acting, directing, singing, dancing, gaming (computer and video), hiking, story telling, poetry, reading, shopping, karaoke, traveling.
I am a drummer in a rock band
It's a little known fact but in San Francisco or LA if you forget your handicap parking permit you can just toss your drumsticks up on the dashboard and it seems to work out. Hey, what's the difference between a large pizza and a drummer? The pizza can feed a family of four. I can keep this up for a long time. I think I know too many guitarists.
I play video games
I draw things
I love writing
I go to Disneyland every chance I get
I love going out to eat
I love watching movies at the theatre or at home
I like reading tech blogs
I listen to music
I like cooking
If this sounds like a lot of y'all, I wouldn't be surprised :)
Girls can do whatever they want.
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not to be confused with
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Not to forget (and I have a copy of this one)
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One of my hobbies ^_~
Parkour Generations: GoGirls! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-Mqq0Z7eg0#ws)
Girls can do what ever girls please ^_~
-Violet!
Someone needs to teach me how to embed videos :'(
That's an awesome vid. Violet :)
Thank you :icon_giggle:
Love the video, so many interesting angles of the city too.
I saw a bit of Elephant there, ever do jumping down the Heygate Estate? I walk through there most weeks and there is often groups of being hurling themselves off things.
The way my cat is shedding I will be able to knit a full length coat for winter!
First though i will have to finish my first project, a scarf for my boyfriend.
Knit like the wind!! Winter is coming to an end here!
Quote from: Maylene on January 24, 2010, 03:03:39 PMso, what hobbies do you have?
There's never been a time in my life when I thought anyone SHOULD do something because they are this or that. Follow your dreams, follow your heart, follow your instincts. Do what you love.
I design and build things. It's my passion. Lately my focus has been on woodworking projects. When I was working it was my job to design projects and manage them and when I was doing that, I loved my job. When I had time, I'd do woodworking, home improvement projects, websites, anything that required design.
I just downloaded a trial version of 20-20 Design, a program that does kitchens, closets, offices (residential and commercial) and generates very realistic 3D images. It's better than AutoCAD and a lot easier. I spent all day yesterday working on a kitchen design for a friend and the results were very cool. CAD is fun but I also need to get some hands on time or I get antsy. I'm working on a jewelry chest and a mobile food prep island for the kitchen. I'm waiting on some new saw blades so I can start ripping the hardwood.
While nothing I do falls into typical girl stuff (except cooking) I still present female, even with my workshop attire. Stereotypical, I'm not.