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<p>[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 4780180, member: 72790"]I am sorry to disagree with your assessment but we are dealing here essentially with a hobby. I do not think males have an obligation to deconstruct a "problem" with women not being especially interested in collecting coins any more than women have an obligation to question why more men are not into quilting or crochet. We are not talking about careers in engineering or physics where something like equal participation by the genders has enormous societal implications. If we are shamed into starting some kind of affirmative action program whereby the hobby is pressured into an equal representation of genders to make up for past "injustices" of few women in the hobby of coin collecting, it's no longer a hobby and I am going back to railroad photography for enjoyment. Why people cannot enjoy a hobby without having to do a "deconstructing" examination of conscience as to its raison d'etre totally escapes me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 4780180, member: 72790"]I am sorry to disagree with your assessment but we are dealing here essentially with a hobby. I do not think males have an obligation to deconstruct a "problem" with women not being especially interested in collecting coins any more than women have an obligation to question why more men are not into quilting or crochet. We are not talking about careers in engineering or physics where something like equal participation by the genders has enormous societal implications. If we are shamed into starting some kind of affirmative action program whereby the hobby is pressured into an equal representation of genders to make up for past "injustices" of few women in the hobby of coin collecting, it's no longer a hobby and I am going back to railroad photography for enjoyment. Why people cannot enjoy a hobby without having to do a "deconstructing" examination of conscience as to its raison d'etre totally escapes me.[/QUOTE]
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