Imagine you're a woman. Not hard. I do this whenever my wife leaves the house and and there's a spare camisole lying around. Now imagine you're a woman who enjoys football. You're probably sick to your stomach of football being a bastion for unrepentant misogyny - the Coors Light twins, eye candy sideline reporters not named Michele Tafoya, Zeke Mowatt ready to whip his cock out in front of you at any moment. It's all pretty woman-unfriendly. You think women deserve to enjoy football as much as any man does, without being condescended to.
And then some wiseass writer gets this letter from a producer at ivillage.com:
Hi Big Daddy Drew,
Have you seen Betsy Berns's new football blog for women, the female fan at ivillage? It might be something you're interested in writing about. It's "girl talk" about football and has interesting commentary on it from a female fan's perspective, plus it has a lot of fun stuff, like a weekly poll trying to get down to the NFL's sexiest player. I'd love for you to check it out and consider writing about it or linking to it. I'm pasting the official press release below. Thanks!
Oh, fuck. Now you get to the press release, and you suddenly see feminism set back another 50 years:
"The Female Fan" will discuss the week's big game dramas, report on celebrity romances and offer tailgating tips and mouthwatering recipes for the perfect football party.
And then you get to the blog itself, and it pretty much confirms your worst fears. It's a football site for women. And, in this case, "women" means 12-year-old girls. It doesn't even bother to assume you know much of anything about football, or even basic home ec. It just assumes you would like your football in the form of US Weekly. "Omigod! Did you know like, Matt Leinart and Nick Lachey are, like, best friends? Oh, and I heard Neutrogena apricot scrub gets your meast really clean!" This approach, of course, makes no sense because casual female football non-fans aren't going to bother reading a blog about football. Worst of all, this site was written by a woman, which makes it doubly annoying.
What will the writer do with it? Will he make endless furburger jokes at your gender's expense? Will he suggest that the blog was written by a retarded cheerleader during off hours?
No, I think he'll just let you vent in the comments.
Question from Chris: What is a point spread? Chris has been having fun making bets with her boyfriend (a great way to get into the game), but wanted to know a little more about the "spread."
ReplyDeleteAnswer from Rob: Chris, the "spread" is what you do with your "legs" when the game is "over".
The bears have picked up the scent
ReplyDeleteSee this is what happens when you give a gal an edamucation.
ReplyDeleteWho taught them to write in the first place?
Here's my first comment there-
Make me a sandwich!!
I'd be pretty pissed if I were John Lynch. He's a sexy bitch.
ReplyDeleteThat site must make Holly Mangold want to punch Betsy Berns in the cunt.
ReplyDeleteAs an actual woman, I hate this condescending bullshit. It's as though the writer presumes the presence of breasts makes me a retard.
ReplyDeleteIf you presume I'm a retard because I'm a Titans fan, that's okay, though. And a pretty easy argument to make.
ReplyDeleteJesus fucking christ. Women read that ridiculous horseshit? wtf is this crap? Why don't they call it what it is..sports for retarded females..
ReplyDeleteI got as far as fun facts about uni's..for the love of god..what woman that watches football doesn't know this shit? I haven't been to iVillage, thanks for the peek, they can keep that weak-ass shit to themselves..
Give me a nice skyy and soda and the remote when more than one game is on at a time. I am happy as a clam.Oh, and make your own sandwich if you want it before halftime you fuckwit. If you had an ounce of sense in that head of yours you would of planned ahead. Its not rocket science.
I don't think women read it.
ReplyDeleteThere are FOUR women writing for our sports blog, but we write about - sports for the most part.
It does all all a great disservice. Women that want to read about football want to read the same stuff you guys so - just minus the Coors Light twins. I look at twins all day long (that is WHY I need the beer and football).
My wife -- who just so happens to go by the blogger name Malibu Stacy -- generally skips out for the afternoon so me and the boys can worship the DirecTV Sunday Ticket package in glorious HDTV. And I love her to death for it.
ReplyDeleteOne of the guys brought a girlfriend along one time who didn't know diddly about the game. We buried them out back underneath the grill.
Now let us never speak of this again.
otto... didn't realize that your grill was such a sensitive topic.
ReplyDeleteIf you haven't, read the comment section. Truly horrible shit, until you get to last one where an actual female fan rips them to shreds.
ReplyDeletewhy does Bill Simmons insist on hiding his true identity on here? why does he continue to do this?
ReplyDeletefuck Boston.
It's the same old stereotypical Jillian Barberie, dumb ditzy blond ... but she's got a new hat!
ReplyDeletegreat stuff. I agree with you; that football is rather sexist. But it got that way because there are very few female fans.
ReplyDeleteAh well, true football fans would agree that all the crap (beer ads, etc.) is needless, and we could easily get along without it. I know I could.
This crossed over into work when some media company tried to sell me on this as a satellite interview for the morning news show.
ReplyDeleteNot only does it piss off actual female sports fans, it gives the dilettantes bad reasons to try and tolerate sports. You can't make fans out of people that just don't get it.
I think Bill Simmon's wife is behind this. She has to be.
ReplyDeletePlease, only insecure big-cock-wannabe guys hate wives and women who know about football. Example, the guys at my work whose ASSES I whooped in fantasy football literally felt their cocks shrinking and to counter they insisted that my husband was helping me with my fantasy team even though I was kicking his ass in my personal league too.
ReplyDeleteMy husband's thrilled that I love football because there was no fight whatsoever when it came to getting Sunday Ticket.
Listen, these lame ass girls with their "I love cute guys in tight spandex pants" website are Not the norm. Give me a fucking break. And for those of you who are intimidated by women who are obsessed with football, grow a fucking dick while you're at it.
The site is worth seeing, if only for the Gilmore Girls ad on the sidebar. Man, I could eat olives out of Laura Graham's ass.
ReplyDelete...and I don't even like olives.
If history has taught us anything, it's that girls should stick to girl sports. Like hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and so on.
ReplyDeleteI'm sort of in love with Mai Wen.
ReplyDeleteYou know "she" is a balding 48-year-old 8th grade gym teacher from Totowa who is cruising internet sports sites looking for gullible teenage boys, right?
I was all ready to chime in w/ my 2, but mai wen said everything I was going to...albeit in a more married and man-hating way.
ReplyDeleteanyway, I don't watch sports to hang around dudes. important games I will often prefer to watch alone, not to mention send my roommate out of the room for asking too many stupid questions or trying to talk about stupid girl stuff. there's a time and a place. and that time is NEVER on sunday.
mai wen in japanese for "Holly Mangold".
ReplyDeleteI'm mostly curious as to why BDD is getting emails from an ivillage producer at all. Isn't ivillage for bitches?
ReplyDeleteNote: the word verification thing I got was "tipmow". Tipmow = Bobbitted, right? I'm gonna kill myself.
I'm convinced guys only want to date female sports fans in theory. The reality is much scarier (i.e. we're smarter and better looking than they are, and we'll embarass them in front of their friends).
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