Padi/diving & sexism

[Damselfish]

nauifins73 once bubbled...


The Instructor that did my OW checkout told me ,"that women have ruined the sport "demanding" all the colors - everything should be black".
Becky

This is interesting. I'm a woman, and I've always prefered mostly black in dive gear. If something is colored I prefer the colors that tend to be sold as "men's colors" rather than the "women's colors." In shops and catalogs I used to see many wetsuits and BCs clearly intended for woman (due to style or size) in colors like pink. (I hate pink!) I always wondered if this was what the manufacturers or shops just thought women wanted, or really was what sold.

I just went and looked at a couple online catalogs and was pleased to see no pink. Lots of black, if there's accents of some sort blue is common. Did see some wetsuits where men's came with blue panels and women's with purple - maybe purple is the new pink. Wonder if the trend to black is the manufacturers trying to follow a different fashion trend, make everything look like tech gear?

 

[nauifins73]

All of my gear except my mask is black - 2 out of 3 custom wetsuits are black. I use ScubaPro Jets and you can't get any blacker than they are!

That remark was made when I was looking but it had no influence on my purchase.

Becky

 

[O-ring]

There are millions of people around the world that don't have enough food to eat, AIDS is running rampant in Africa, the US is killing people in the Middle East and elsewhere, and I pass homeless people on my way to work...and you people are worried about what pronouns PADI uses in a Rescue Diver Manual?

 

[nauifins73]

Yes we are discussing pronouns! She is writing a paper for an English class.

You didn't think about AIDS, the Homeless & the middle east when you were posting to Victoria.

 

[O-ring]

nauifins73 once bubbled...
Yes we are discussing pronouns! She is writing a paper for an English class.

You didn't think about AIDS, the Homeless & the middle east when you were posting to Victoria.

Nice to know we have a mind reader on the board now... Maybe if you can concentrate really hard you can tell what I am thinking right now.

Hint...it starts with F ..

 

[Warren_L]

SubMariner once bubbled...
PADI and other agencies take great pains to make their books, videos, etc. as gender-neutral as possible. For example, in the Rescue Diver course most of the time the person is referred to as "the diver" "the victim", etc. Are there instances when someone is referred to as "he"? Yes. There are also times when someone is referred to as "she".

What evidence do you have that there is a correlation between your perception of gender bias in training materials and sexism in diving?

I've also noticed this as well, especially in the videos when they have to act out scenarios. They tend to alternate between male/female roles in the scenarios so that there's fairly equal representation.

 

[O-ring]

warren_l once bubbled...


I've also noticed this as well, especially in the videos when they have to act out scenarios. They tend to alternate between male/female roles in the scenarios so that there's fairly equal representation.

Almost the entire Dive Master video is a woman DM..

 

[DennisS]

I'm looking at the 1999 PADI rescue diver manual. Page 13 shows a female calming a chilled diver. Page 21 has divemaster Wendy helping Barbara, page 22 shows a female administering O2 to a male. The term "the diver" is used a lot.

 

[O-ring]

Since I interjected, I will help out your little project.. If you want to see some of what you are referring to as sexism in diving check out Divers magazine..

 

[cobaltbabe]

O-ring once bubbled...
Since I interjected, I will help out your little project.. If you want to see some of what you are referring to as sexism in diving check out Divers magazine..

But that is from a sales point of view. I am assuming you mean the scantly clad beauties who have never put on a wet suit except for the photo shoot. This is marketing directed solely at men.