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Originally Posted by DampRobot
I wonder how the community would respond if a team proposed an all boys offseason, with no girls allowed in the pits.
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Certainly there would be an uproar over that.
However the fact is that in many teams pit and drive crews are often dominated by males, not necessarily males only but often mainly males.
These girls only events encourage them to take on those roles w/o the worry of "not being as good at it as the boys" and not feeling that they have to "fight" to get the right to participate in those area.
Many of the guys on our teams really enjoy the girls events. For one thing it is nice to just watch an event w/o worrying about the robot. Plus we usually buy some of the cheapest Halloween wigs we can find for all the male mentors and students, put them on and get out there and cheer for our team.