@cathya Try teaching an outdoor sport to a man as young female.. as any aged female indeed..
Try teaching it to teenage boys
Ugh is all I can say. Your word as a female is always worth less and questioned more even though you are the expert and often the male has no clue
Drives me mad. It is just not changing in attitude.. if anything the internet is sending many boys backwards
It does not surprise me at all that aversives are linked with this kind of world view. I have often thought watching certain male youtube trainers that this isn't actually about the dog.. the way you are explaining your approach it is more about you the MAN
Dog is just there as a prop for you!
Something about how they are doing things is supposed to be a reflection on them
I got irritated once by a very famous one ranting on about r plus trainers being all childless woman
Peed me off at so many levels in so many ways!
Will listen to this with interest!