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Isabella E · Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 2:30 pm Post subject: Why do some women do this?

Spawned from a completely unrelated post on the Armour Archive, but I personally know at least one woman with this attitude and I don't get it.

Cunian · Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 2:46 pm Post subject:

I've run into that mindset before though not recently and not in Atlantia. In the case I can remember well, it seemed to be mostly a last ditch degree of frustration with not being able to get a good kill otherwise. Also I think there is a degree of acceptance of abusing men there in the popular culture which is bad. (It doesn't *just* make them curl up into a cute moaning ball. It really, really hurts, and occasionally does require medical attention. We had a guy locally who needed emergency surgery last fall.)

I think for the most part these women are really trading on the notion that the guys are too nice to give it back to them.

broinnfinn · Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 5:04 pm Post subject: Re: Why do some women do this?

[quote="Isabella E"]Spawned from a completely unrelated post on the Armour Archive, but I personally know at least one woman with this attitude and I don't get it.

Isabella E · Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 5:35 pm Post subject:

It's in this thread of all places:

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=117278

Like I said, completely unrelated to the topic but I've encountered the attitude myself several times and I just don't get it.
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Jesmond · Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 5:37 pm Post subject:

I suspect it develops from calibration issues. When I had difficulty in the past with powering a shot, my targeting was limited to those places I could hit that hurt like hell. I didn't go for the balls, but I did go for a face thrust, neck, unarmoured parts of the upper arm, underarm, unarmoured back of the torso, back of the leg, butt, point of the hip, and inside the thigh. It was a way to play while my power developed.

It's not my practice to target the groin, but it is a legal target here. Usually, if I know my shot is accidently headed there, I will pull the blow as much as possible. For a while when I was fighting my knight irregularly, who was shorter than my other opponents, when I would go for the inside of the leg shot, I would accidently groin shot him. It was horrible.

I have intentionally cup shot an individual once or twice. But that was only in the case of absolutely horrible laugh in his face shrugging. It was my desire to discourage him from seeking me out again.
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Cunian · Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 7:11 pm Post subject:

As I read that thread, it appears to be in rapier stuff, where there shouldn't be a big difficulty with someone calling things light. Dunno.

I go for 'white meat' shots a lot just as a matter of course, and accidents do happen. In the instances where I have been nervous that a gut thrust or an inside thigh shot was off target and have pulled them, people have typically told me not to have pulled the shot, though some are happy.

Jesmond · Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 7:42 pm Post subject:

If it is rapier then, does it hurt?
If it's not painful, then maybe that's some kind of funny?
I don't pretend to understand rapier.
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Isabella E · Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 8:32 pm Post subject:

Well, both the women I was referring to were heavy fighters.
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audax · Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 9:26 am Post subject:

I think it's dirty pool. Just plain ol' not cool. Sometimes I miss and tag one of my friends, but it is an accident that I apologize for. The only time I had acknowledgement issues with someone, I saluted them and yielded the field. Someone talked to them about it, they apologized and all was right with the world.

Honor and reputation mean way way more to me than an ugly victory ever could.

Generally, I only go for the lads if my life is really in the balance. All bets are off in that case.
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Ailea ingean Fhiodhbhuide · Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:05 pm Post subject:

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Last year at Pennsic 38 I encountered a female knight who was teaching other women to aim for the cup shot. I do not know who she was, but was so disgusted, I walked away fuming.

In my opinion, this is not only wrong, but stupid. Sure a cup shot will hurt like hell. What a lot of women don't realize is that a cup shot will drop some men to the ground and other men it'll put into a heated rage. If they're having problems getting a man to take a shot, it's not a good idea to make that man angry!

I agree with what someone else said: if you can't get them to take a shot, aim for the squishy bits like the armpit, or in between the armor. You can also aim for the bits where people are supposed to take pretty lightly like neck shots or face thrusts.

I am currently trying to amp up my power and do not currently have the aim to hit small areas like the neck or armpit anyway!

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Isabella E · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 6:57 pm Post subject:

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