Very true, but girls toys, for the most part, tend to be on the uninteresting side, at least to boys. Boys had telescopes first and girls were "me too!" so we let our monopoly go out of the goodness of our hearts and a sense of fairness. Not too many girls took us up on the telescope thing, judjing by the statistics. Get out there and recruit, Joan. Seriously, there were more women in my old car club, percentage-wise, than in SLAS. Not just wives of members, but members outright with their own sports car. Astronomy just doesn't seem to have the following with women that many other hobbies do. This is strange because there are many professional women astronomers. There seems to be a disconnect between the hobby and vocational side of the science. That said, last time I accompanied my wife to the fabric store (in the role of manservant, to carry her items), I was the only guy there out of perhaps a hundred customers total. It must not have been on the day Charlie Green usually goes, or he was there early for the door-buster specials. ;-) On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 1:12 PM, <jcarman6@q.com> wrote:
They talk about boys and their toys - well they ought to talk about girls and their toys too - at least in the 21st century. Besides us girls have our own telescopes too.