I suggest anyone with Netflix to look up "Women in Boxes". It is a documentary on magic assistants.
Well, I know what I'll be watching tonight.
I suggest anyone with Netflix to look up "Women in Boxes". It is a documentary on magic assistants.
Of course if you look in the right place you will find women in almost any profession or hobby type but generally speaking there are hundreds of millions of females that have no interest in things for every thousand that do.I knew plenty of woman in wood shop, welding, and technical theater in highschool.
The work assistants do is all under the direction of the performer (whether male or female), they can have zero knowledge of magic and be part of an illusion just by being flexible so no, I don't think assistants are magicians at all.Also I consider many girl magic assistance magicians. They do all the work, especially in illusions.
As I'm getting to love this website more and more...i feel like im the only girl here, haha.
So why do you think this is mainly male dominated?
My theory is that this is a pretty ancient art, and relatively underground as well. Previous societies might not have LET women do this, and it's still underground, so maybe that's why?
Or do you think it's just because men are considered better showmen, especially with girls in sparkly dresses around them?
Maybe because magic or a lot of it is sort of dark and gritty? I think a creative girl could create amazing magic that is light and colorful full of flowers glitter and silks or whatever it sounds awesome! But most males won't go that far for the obvious reason.
well..that`s one theory...it also could be because (and I bear witness of this) when there is a women magician around, the other men magicians like her to much and they want to call her attention, and sometimes be boyfriends with them ( they think having a female magician as a girlfriend could be awesome...and maybe they get to do a magic act sometime together...like making a baby appear) and in response the female magician feels a little bit overwhelmed and they end up quiting...again...this can be the case in some situations...
do they? Hmm...i didn't really notice that. Honestly most females i know waste half their lives on facebook XD
But i really don't understand why they find it 'geeky'. like, HELLO. You just did the [seemingly] IMPOSSIBLE right in front of their eyes.
Of course if you look in the right place you will find women in almost any profession or hobby type but generally speaking there are hundreds of millions of females that have no interest in things for every thousand that do.
The work assistants do is all under the direction of the performer (whether male or female), they can have zero knowledge of magic and be part of an illusion just by being flexible so no, I don't think assistants are magicians at all.
The work assistants do is all under the direction of the performer (whether male or female), they can have zero knowledge of magic and be part of an illusion just by being flexible so no, I don't think assistants are magicians at all.
That's kind of the point I was making.