It'll be their loss, too. Practice is a lot more fun when there's a woman around (or, better still, more than one) with enough skill to handle full-speed, full-power attacks from me and the other guys. But then, I've never been in a dojo or group with a particularly MMA-ish or competition-oriented attitude anyway, and now I guess I have more reasons to be grateful for that.
And our dojo is not even particularly competition-oriented-not like Pedro's over to the east. I think that if you can't look beyond the sphere of your own experience, you tend to try to make everything one-size-fits-all-and that's your own size.
This confirms my impression that your judo dojo has some very unhealthy things going on. And I think I'm understanding the problems of institutionalised sexism/racism a bit better thanks to this example. If the instruction is always aimed at something men can do much more easily (I've seen this in riding as well), then men will always do dispropotionally better, and if the things men typically do are valued more than things women will typically do, then that creates a culture in which men thrive and women don't.
I hope you'll find a solution, but I have a feeling it won't be with these guys.
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:-(
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Blech. Too much confluence of crap right now.
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I hope you'll find a solution, but I have a feeling it won't be with these guys.
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