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Message:: [QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4748924, member: 110350"]I don't mean conscious conditioning. There are certain hobbies that society considers to be perfectly "normal" for girls and women to engage in -- from collecting china figurines to buying antiques -- and certain things that are considered a little bit weird, although the older one gets the less one tends to care about being thought of as "unusual"! I admit, though, that it's still the case that there are very few people I know whom I tell about my coin collecting.  Both because, as you say, most people have no interest in it -- and I think some of that is because of the fact that coins are generally so small and require a certain degree of effort to appreciate; if they were all actually the size of the photos we post, people would find them a lot more interesting! -- and because it is considered a bit of a strange hobby for a middle-aged woman to have.  Unlike my other primary pastime of genealogical research, for which I think more than half of the practitioners and experts are women.  On the other hand, more people know that I collect coins than know that I've been a devoted fan of baseball in general, and the New York Yankees in particular, for more than 50 years!  Nobody expects women to know a lot about baseball, although I refuse to pretend that I know less than I do.[/QUOTE]