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RE: Where be all the female snakey peoples?
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by Buzztail1 on January 30, 2004
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About 6 months ago I compiled the following demograhic information. This may answer some of your questions.
Based on membership mailings, we have:
11 male members from 6 other countries, 1 female.
15 female members from 8 different states and 1 other country, 9 with memberships in only their names, 6 with family or joint memberships.
209 male members from 32 different states, 6 other countries and 1 FPO/APO address.
5 states with membership in double digits as follows:
Georgia 35
Florida 33
North Carolina 24
South Carolina 20
Virginia 10
18 states with NO members as follow:
Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, and Vermont.
Other countries include:
Canada, Netherlands, Holland, Australia, England/UK and Turkey.
Hope this answers some of your questions.
Karl H. Betz
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by BanffshireBushman on January 30, 2004
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Karl, Not that I want to dwell on the subject for too long, but out of the numbers you displayed, my count only comes to around 30+ (give or take a few)- Not a lot really is it?
Methinks that the herpy word has gotta be spread like the rest of you guys, and yes, that means get more people converted. Or at least "less ignorant" to the whole perspective of reptiles n' other scaley things that bit n' sting. Beleive me, that job is one of my biggest hurdles that I encounter on a daily basis. I'm afraid to say (and no offence here to any of the already female reptile brigade - OK?) that most of the public I encounter that has a morbid fear of reptiles are generally female. But, once given the time and proper education etc, most do come round to touching or even handling snakes (non-venomous of course!), but many still would not entertain keeping one.
So, It's kinda disheartening to read that the USA being one of the biggest areas for such a wide variety of snakes, has only a minute percentage of female keepers or ones that show an interest. Sad innit? Do you have education programmes run by the SHHS at any roadshows/events to convert the "baffled as to why the heck you'd keep those things" majority?
My regards to all (male or female) David.
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by Buzztail1 on January 30, 2004
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Well, by my count, I show a membership, at that time, of 225 people with 15 being female. Now that doesn't account for couples where the female spouse also keeps snakes.
As to public education, many of the individual members do all sorts of education programs, some representing the SHHS, some representing only themselves.
And then there are always people who refuse to be educated or enlightened. We generally call those folks politicians (a joke). Personally, I have been involved in public school classroom education as well as boy, girl, and cub scouts, Earth Day presentations, military wives' group meetings and even a state power company's engineering department training program.
Because we are so spread out, involvement in educating the public winds up being a personal commitment instead of a group participation issue. On occasion, we have asked members to participate at various events but most people are too busy with their lives to travel too far or participate too much.
By the by, I recognize that I listed England/UK and thereby actually named England but I meant no slight or offense to our members from Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
Karl H. Betz
Buzztail1@hotmail.com
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by BanffshireBushman on January 31, 2004
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Captains Log...Banff...23:42GMT
Mr.Buzz'.
"My god, it's worse than I thought captain!, I cannae obviously count, and the brain - it'll nae take much more poundin'...am afraid sir, I cannae push it any further..."
Aye, educating the wary/ignorant/politicians and general public is not an easy thing to do. Thousands of years have passed with fear being handed down to the not so brave. But, I'll keep trying 'till it kills me, and it more than likely will!
And whilst we're on the subject of killing!...absolutely NO offence caused what so ever from us red haired, heather munchin', kilt wearing, pale-skinned looking, knobbly-knee'd bunch o' scruffs n' vagabonds over here in Scotland. We actually find it hard to take offence at anything...(OK, who's the sod that mentioned the 1745 Rebellion??). England is an entirely different planet to us. They have life-forms that we have yet to understand, strange customs that still offer many questions, and a place (so I've heard),will be the next site for "Mars Express" to visit, in order to try and detect any past forms of intelligent life!
So, if you'll excuse me, I have to be getting back to my padded room. I think the nurses have discovered I'm missing...
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by ianb on February 1, 2004
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Wow I could never excuse some of the males of the board houding the females with attractive photos, but when it comes down to it I can see why they may have been interested. I'd have to say as a young single guy, that at least 50% of the females that come over to my house are quite intimidated and half of those are petrified. I don't really give a shit. In fact I conisider it some what a prerequisite of dating. But the bottom line is that I guess male snake enthuisists would almost instictively be much more attracted to female enthusist than any normal girls. I know I would.
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by BanffshireBushman on February 2, 2004
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Yo!, Like Ian dude!,
Erm, not quite sure what you meant with that last posting.- You say that 50% of females that visit your humble abode are "quite intimidated" and the other half petrified...If I can be the voice on behalf of those females and ask the question: what is it that is intimidating and petrifying? We all "assume" that it could be the snakes, but, I got to thinking that it may be something else - maybe you were referring to the personal side of things? ha! ha! ha! :o)
I have it on good authority that most of the female species; sub-species "spendicus alottus plasticus", think that near all men are snakes anyway! So there is no need to actually keep any more than "one" in the house at any given time!!! As to the dating side o' things, and it being a plus-factor for you: all I can say is "best o' luck to ya" But, I must stress the point by saying that it wasn't the intention of my bringing the dating side of things into the "survey", I was just curious as to what kinda figures are out there. (and NO Ian, I don't mean those kind of figures - Jeez! you young 'uns all have one track minds!)
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And then you have the same problem on the other si
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by MSTT on February 2, 2004
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It's true that male venomous snake enthusiasts would probably be interested in dating female venomous snake collectors, but the fact is that both guys and gals in this hobby are pretty scarce in any given geographical area. So my collection has not done a darn thing for my social life except to scare guys away. Most fellows don't like it when a girl does things that they can't do, or things that they think of as difficult and scary. This includes some venomous keeping guys who instantly tried to out-macho me and "put me in my place" by bragging about what they could do with snakes. I wasn't impressed.
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Anonymous post on February 6, 2004
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I'm pre-op, I'll be a female at the end of the month.
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Anonymous post on March 8, 2004
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dude thats sick nobady should do that op
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