Emergency Pls upload a picture of your aquarium with your stupid face beside it so I can see who is making all these rubbish comments.

[Fishstery]

So many men....so I had to pop in to help represent the ladies

 

[JayP]

We do seem to be getting more representation from the ladies and I'm seeing more "Aquagirls Rock" badges. Good to see. I also understand why some folks (all genders) are reluctant to post their faces or other personal info, and that's OK too.

 

[Fishstery]

We do seem to be getting more representation from the ladies and I'm seeing more "Aquagirls Rock" badges. Good to see. I also understand why some folks (all genders) are reluctant to post their faces or other personal info, and that's OK too.

I work as an autobody technician, so I'm pretty used to being in arenas that are predominantly male. I really enjoy encouraging women to break the barriers!

There are some younger female influencers I've seen on tiktok/Instagram that are in the hobby, though it seems more common among women over 35. It still seems to be a small minority of women younger than 30 in the hobby, though I'm 29 now so closer to the other side of the demographic

 

[JayP]

I work as an autobody technician, so I'm pretty used to being in arenas that are predominantly male. I really enjoy encouraging women to break the barriers!

There are some younger female influencers I've seen on tiktok/Instagram that are in the hobby, though it seems more common among women over 35. It still seems to be a small minority of women younger than 30 in the hobby, though I'm 29 now so closer to the other side of the demographic

Now that you mention it, it does seem odd to me that this hobby, aquarium keeping in general, would be male dominated, but even as far back as I remember, in the 70s and 80s, that's been the case. I guess I can think of some socioeconomic reasons for that many many decades ago. but not ss much now.

 

[Dennis Wong]

So many men....so I had to pop in to help represent the ladies

My next complaint is on folks using these made-up names with common words lol.
I thought I was talking to this guy who I sometimes chat with on facebook.I was wondering why "he" was posting different tanks here and on facebook. Oh well...



I met "Noahspapa" at this year's AGA and I didn't recognize him because he introduced himself using his real name! argh...

 

[Fishstery]

Now that you mention it, it does seem odd to me that this hobby, aquarium keeping in general, would be male dominated, but even as far back as I remember, in the 70s and 80s, that's been the case. I guess I can think of some socioeconomic reasons for that many many decades ago. but not ss much now.

I've spent quite a lot of time networking online to track down rare plants, many contacts overseas, and I can say in the last 7 years I've been heavily in the plant side of the hobby, only a small handful have been female. Even in Asian countries, I've only conversed with two female farmers, though even then their operations partners are male.

While the US is still very fish concentrated as opposed to plant and aquascaping focused, I've only met one female in the US that farms rare plants. Every other contact I've had has been male. It could just be my own personal experience, but an observation that I've made nonetheless.

 

[Fishstery]

My next complaint is on folks using these made-up names with common words lol.
I thought I was talking to this guy who I sometimes chat with on facebook.I was wondering why "he" was posting different tanks here and on facebook. Oh well...

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I met "Noahspapa" at this year's AGA and I didn't recognize him because he introduced himself using his real name! argh...

I feel called out! By Dennis Wong nonetheless! I guess I should have formally introduced myself in my photo. My name is Amanda, a 29 year old Korean-American from the East Coast

 

[Fishstery]

I feel called out! By Dennis Wong nonetheless! I guess I should have formally introduced myself in my photo. My name is Amanda, a 29 year old Korean-American from the East Coast

I guess I should also add to explain: I started on Reddit, which is typically used as a more anonymous way to engage in social media. I've been in the subs on there for quite awhile, so I tend to just recycle my username from there since some people from reddit also frequent the aquarium forums. Perhaps it may be time to change my moniker...

 

[Mr.Shenanagins]

Yeah, the username shenanigans is very frustrating. Come on people

 

[SmartAlec13]

I work as an autobody technician, so I'm pretty used to being in arenas that are predominantly male. I really enjoy encouraging women to break the barriers!

There are some younger female influencers I've seen on tiktok/Instagram that are in the hobby, though it seems more common among women over 35. It still seems to be a small minority of women younger than 30 in the hobby, though I'm 29 now so closer to the other side of the demographic

If it helps, at my LFS most of the employees are women and in their 20's.

 

[Burr740]

Lol "frustrated" at a mssg board name

I'll have more thoughts when my dial up modem finally connects...

 

[BenB]

So many men....so I had to pop in to help represent the ladies

Now that you mention it, it does seem odd to me that this hobby, aquarium keeping in general, would be male dominated, but even as far back as I remember, in the 70s and 80s, that's been the case. I guess I can think of some socioeconomic reasons for that many many decades ago. but not ss much now.

Back in 2001 or 2004 at the AGA Convention, Amano was surprised at how many women there were in attendance. Yeah, was still mostly male, but more women than he expected. He said there were almost none in Japan. He asked for a photo with he and all the women in attendance to publish in the Aqua Journal to promote women in the hobby back home. I wish I could find a copy of the pic. I'm sure I saw it. I know he did that at least one more time at another AGA.

 

[Fishstery]

Back in 2001 or 2004 at the AGA Convention, Amano was surprised at how many women there were in attendance. Yeah, was still mostly male, but more women than he expected. He said there were almost none in Japan. He asked for a photo with he and all the women in attendance to publish in the Aqua Journal to promote women in the hobby back home. I wish I could find a copy of the pic. I'm sure I saw it. I know he did that at least one more time at another AGA.

That's awesome!!! I'm off to find the photo myself