it's a throwing thing.
Most of the women who join - 'wahoo' (actual name escapes me) - being the most recent, tend to lean more towards the making side of things.
willeke - who I met in a park on the outskirts of oxford - some years ago, was a serious knotter - probably our longest contributing female member.
But a terrible actual slinger
She won't mind me saying so lol
Whereas most of us males tend towards the actual throwing side of things.
It's either about accuracy or power or both, or the mathematics and aerodynamics of slinging.
I don't think we drive the women away - I just think they lose interest in something so simple as repetitively throwing stuff.
They need more to occupy their thoughts than us blokes
We're simple souls at heart. Give us a target that goes clang and a big pile of rocks and we'll be happy as a dog with two tails - for hours !
Women seem to need more out of life than just hitting things with other things