# Non-stereotypically manly professions? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 9, 2009, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-stereotypically-manly-professions/502458 "2009-07-09T15:21:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-stereotypically-manly-professions/502458/41 "2009-07-11T03:40:08Z")
> [@slitterst](#): > > Dancers. Sure, you can laugh about their tights and loose shirts, but not only lifting those girls all performance long, but throwing them? And doing it eight hours a day in rehearsal, over and over and over again? If guys would just sit down and think about what modern dance and ballet entails, there would be far more straight men getting into dance. > > In that vein – Choreographers. Not only do you have to have all the skills I mentioned above, you’ve got to have a strong enough personality to control all those artistes while teaching them something that only exists in your head. > > Phebotomists. When my daughter needed blood drawn in her second day of life, these two linebackers came into the room to hold her down while they used a tiny needle to find her teeny-tiny vein. It’s not just about knowing how to use the needle, it’s about having the power to restrain someone who may be fidgety about that needle piercing their skin. That’s a great one. ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-stereotypically-manly-professions/502458/42 "2009-07-11T07:11:11Z")
Fretworkers, wood carvers and woodworkers in general. Also, mimes and clowns. Not so much ‘manly’ as ‘male-dominated’, that one. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2009, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-stereotypically-manly-professions/502458/43 "2009-07-12T22:09:34Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > Real estate salesmen, if you believe _Glengarry Glen Ross_ anyway. Interestingly, IRL I associate real estate sales with women. Traders / investment bankers, stockbrokers and other finance types tend to be stereotypically manly. Think Wall Street, Boiler Room, American Psycho and so on. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-stereotypically-manly-professions/502458/44 "2009-07-13T01:21:46Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Interestingly, IRL I associate real estate sales with women. > Traders / investment bankers, stockbrokers and other finance types tend to be stereotypically manly. Think Wall Street, Boiler Room, American Psycho and so on. I work for a bank and I don’t know a single female investment banker. ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-stereotypically-manly-professions/502458/45 "2009-07-13T15:31:46Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > I got a B.A. in history, from Indiana University. (Where did I ever say I had an Associate’s degree?) Maybe nowhere. I could have a crappy memory. Carry on and congratulations (I think it was failry recent - if not, nevermind, no snark intended, merely curious). ---
**Author:** ![rivulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rivulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rivulus)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-stereotypically-manly-professions/502458/46 "2009-07-13T21:02:11Z")
> [@slitterst](#): > > Dancers. Sure, you can laugh about their tights and loose shirts, but not only lifting those girls all performance long, but throwing them? And doing it eight hours a day in rehearsal, over and over and over again? If guys would just sit down and think about what modern dance and ballet entails, there would be far more straight men getting into dance. Along those lines, how about pairs figure skaters? Like dancing, but on ice. Lifts, plus triple axels. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-stereotypically-manly-professions/502458/47 "2009-07-13T22:10:38Z")
Dancing also works in reverse: a profession whose members do not portray the supposedly feminine characteristics they supposedly do. I refer specifically to the implication that female dancers are thin, slight, and fragile. They surely are thinner than average, but that’s all muscle. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-stereotypically-manly-professions/502458.md?page=2)