Because men have to release the inner child inside. Have you ever seen a man that didn’t act even just a little childish once in a while? So, we buy toys!
The question arises when the child does so on their own accord.
All my kids are interested in yoyo. 1 boy, 3 girls. 2 of the girls are too small, but have a yoyo they can “fling around”, which I must admit isn’t the best of ideas. The boy is progressing, the eldest girl has lost interest yet she wants her small number of yoyos. She doesn’t play them though, which annoys me. I mean, this stuff ain’t cheap! Well, her top dollar model is her Chaser she got at BAC, but it hasn’t been thrown since BAC…
I’ve been interested in yoyos since I was very young and I’ve been a male all my life so I will say I fit the profile you mentioned…
I also have three daughters and they all like yoyos but do not share my more dedicated interest.
I suspect it’s an individual thing as far as interest goes but males tend to stick with it more than the females I know.
I yoyo, I play video games, I am a girl
I don’t think it’s that strange…
Maybe it is just because males just seem to take more interest in the hobbie ??
I do think that what parents initially support is still very important. The issue with looking at a boy or girl’s later decision to begin yoyo’ing is something I made mention of, in that it’s almost impossible to look at from an objective point of view. By the time a person is 12,13, or 14 and starts to develop their own interests, their personality and preferences are so colored by what was reinforced in their early life that it’s difficult to come to any conclusion. They might have been equally likely to try out a yoyo if not for that.
I think it’s because girls don’t feel the need to practice so hard just to swing a yoyo on a string. I say that because when I got my first real yoyo my sister got the same one and we learned the basic tricks together but she stopped yoyoing because she thought it was too hard to learn some of the intermediate tricks.
I never really witnessed the contrast in gender, because I only have an older brother, so we pretty much got to do the same stuff early on. It’s not all parental influence though, because nowadays my brother and I have /vastly/ different interests and pursuits even though we had the same treatment early on. It’s a sweet balance between nature and nurture. So while early influence does have some effect, it’s not as clear cut.
One issue that has arisen is that many girls dont enjoy the yoyo community even if they start out yoyoing. And without being involved within the community, the spark to continue often dies.
I recall a couple years ago when forum member Q did an experiment to see how people would treat him as a girl on the forum. He managed to go on the forums as a girl and just post around. His reactions as a girl were quite different than that of a guy. All of a sudden, he found himself with many PM’s from guys wanting to talk to “her” and saying nice things to “her”. While as a guy, making the same sort of post, things would go without much reply or anything else.
Some things got downright creepy at times.
I have seen it happen on another forum and especially on youtube videos for some girl players. Its sad, but many of the girls who are a bit interested in the sport/hobby find themselves being creeped out by some reactions of the people of the community, and end up leaving.
Its something that in some ways cannot be avoided, it just takes some respect on some people. Hopefully this can be achieved.
J.
Yes!
We need more respect for women!
I bet that has something to do with the general population being, like, 12. Ugh.
Well, that’s true,
my Family has a great respect for women. 
Granted, it has nothing to do with being /disrespectful/, it’s just I don’t think they know how to handle themselves when faced with the situation.
Except for the creepy stuff, of course.
Yeah,
and they shouldn’t be creeping anyway,
soooo creepy.
Unfortunately, being creepy isn’t necessarily bound by age.
That’s unfortunately true. :-\
WOW! i’ve been a male all my life TOO!!
most girls i know think yo-yoing is “nerdy” probably because i used to be a real nerd. eventually, i grew out of my nerdyness, but i guess that the “nerd” image was burnt into their brains forever.
You sure?
The pic is kind of nerdy.