Subject: Re: Girls in Magic!
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 23:53:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: SPO <rhymell@tiac.net>
To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com
CC: c_nicoloff@hotmail.com

I am male, and have noticed the trends Cathy spoke about concerning magic.
hell, ive even been the reason to why she wrote what she did. I play mostly
local tourneys  with a splashing of some major ones, I do farely well, i win
about half. I too digress.
At a weekly local tournament there are a few girls who play. One of them is
a bad player, the other I consider on the same playing level, however, at
first I felt bad when running her over. She was a nice girl and I made the
prejudgemental mistake of assuming that in being female she had no chance in
beating me. I made the prejudment based on the fact she, like the other
female players, was playing magic because her boyfriend got her in to it and
was using his left over cards. I was wrong, and when playing type II we
often trade blows on who wins or not, shes fun to play against, and she is a
whole hell of a lot better than her boyfriend.
Herself and the much less talented female bring a much more desirable
playing atmosphere. Once smelly kids use deoderant! The hairy beast men
shave! and I am rewarded with a good player to be challenged with. She
offers useful suggestions to my deck, Trades me her boyfriends cards, hehe,
and offers other interesting discussions such as web page design, trips to
regional tournament reports, etc.
I guess the point of this whole long winded going nowhere letter is to point
out that theres nothing in testosterone that makes a magic player, just
attitude.

Steve O'Connell
Team SYA