I Don't Pink So

It's time to admit that there is no longer anything about this supposed non-blog that distinguishes it from any other mediocre blog out there these days. (I don't think there ever was, but I was hoping there might be at some point.) But instead of fighting back, I'm going to embrace this, which means that like every other amateur blogger lacking a focus, I will now use this space for pointless rants.

Pink baseball caps. What is the deal? The whole point of being a fan is that you wear the team colors whether or not they go with your outfit. This is why historically men are more likely than women to be sports fans.

Ha, look, I just made a joke based on gender stereotypes.

Really, though, as someone who once wore a shiny brown spandex unisuit with regularity, I simply cannot understand, say, Red Sox fans, who get to choose from two very attractive colors-- red and blue-- but can't handle it and buy a pink hat instead. But the popularity of this whole pink "girly fan" clothes thing is not surprising when you think about it in the context of the whole sexism thing.

It's now ok in this post-Title IX era to like sports if you're a girl. Heck, they'll even let you play most of them. But being a real sports fan is still something that's a "guy thing." And as with most "guy things" there are women who have no problem taking part, either because they could care less about societal expectations or because they think it's fun to be that girl in the "one of the guys" kind of way. I think true fandom should be left to these women, the ones who can handle wearing the team colors. I don't think there should be an option to mark yourself as a "girly fan" and allow yourself to simulatenously enjoy the best of both worlds-- the wide world of sports and the wonderful world of enforced femininity.