Hardly any are. When I lived in Vegas I noticed that the slot machine use was about equally divided between the genders. So were the blackjack tables. Ditto roulette. Craps tended to be more favored by males.
The race book also was mostly male, but women are often fairly well-represented. But the sports books - ahh!
This is as male as war was for generations. The only women you'd find there are the wives and girlfriends of the men, and most were clearly itching to get back to the slots. In some sports books a few whores seemed to be trolling for winners.
Some years ago, before the Internet exploded, I bought about 2000 names on address labels of sports bettors, to solicit by mail for a small tout service I ran. If I recall correctly, there were maybe three female names on that entire list.
These recollections were brought to the fore by an ABC Primetime tonight, whre they devoted a half hour to a woman (lez, actually) who dressed as a man to infiltrate male preserves, like a bowling league, monastery, etc.
She later concluded that men were very equalitarian and accepting (even tho some suspected she/he was gay, ie a gay male). But she also concluded that men need and want sensitivity and intimacy, but are "conditioned" not to know how to express it.
Excuse me, but this sounds like the usual p c bullshit. Yes, men are "conditoned" not to open up, but it has little to do with societal norms, but rather with evolution, and Nature Blood Red in Tooth and Claw, as a naturlist put it a hundred years ago.
Civilization is but 10 millenia old. Our brains and nervous systems are wired for flight or fight, for stuggle and a necessary brutality. For tens of thousands of years, and several million for our hominid ancestors, sensitivity and intimacy would hve gotten us killed. The whole world was a combat arena. Women, protected by the males, could afford these luxuries as they nurtured the children.
Sports betting, the combination of calculation and on field combat, is a throwback to what our ancestors did to survive. Outthink our enemies, and kill them. It's sublimated in sports betting, but it's there. Welcome to 30000 BC.
The psychic differences between male and female is not some societal plot, some rotten scheme by male chauvinists. The difference is part of our nature. And as the French say, vive la difference!
The race book also was mostly male, but women are often fairly well-represented. But the sports books - ahh!
This is as male as war was for generations. The only women you'd find there are the wives and girlfriends of the men, and most were clearly itching to get back to the slots. In some sports books a few whores seemed to be trolling for winners.
Some years ago, before the Internet exploded, I bought about 2000 names on address labels of sports bettors, to solicit by mail for a small tout service I ran. If I recall correctly, there were maybe three female names on that entire list.
These recollections were brought to the fore by an ABC Primetime tonight, whre they devoted a half hour to a woman (lez, actually) who dressed as a man to infiltrate male preserves, like a bowling league, monastery, etc.
She later concluded that men were very equalitarian and accepting (even tho some suspected she/he was gay, ie a gay male). But she also concluded that men need and want sensitivity and intimacy, but are "conditioned" not to know how to express it.
Excuse me, but this sounds like the usual p c bullshit. Yes, men are "conditoned" not to open up, but it has little to do with societal norms, but rather with evolution, and Nature Blood Red in Tooth and Claw, as a naturlist put it a hundred years ago.
Civilization is but 10 millenia old. Our brains and nervous systems are wired for flight or fight, for stuggle and a necessary brutality. For tens of thousands of years, and several million for our hominid ancestors, sensitivity and intimacy would hve gotten us killed. The whole world was a combat arena. Women, protected by the males, could afford these luxuries as they nurtured the children.
Sports betting, the combination of calculation and on field combat, is a throwback to what our ancestors did to survive. Outthink our enemies, and kill them. It's sublimated in sports betting, but it's there. Welcome to 30000 BC.
The psychic differences between male and female is not some societal plot, some rotten scheme by male chauvinists. The difference is part of our nature. And as the French say, vive la difference!
