Diary rant thingy.
So I got this thing so I could use it and so I posted a few fics and gifs and such but then I stopped. And well I've been wanting to start a blog or a private diary on a doc or something and then I was cleaning up this livejournal and thought, hey why not just use this?? So yeah that's what I'm gonna do.. I'm probably not gonna be posting any fics or anything anymore here, I just don't really write a lot of fics anymore (although I do still write) and because I have ao3...
ANYWAY........ I was watching a hockey game earlier because I'm now into hockey and I started thinking about puck sluts. Not really puck sluts in a way, but that was the starting thought. Before I get into my rant can I just say that I kind of love the phrase 'puck slut' and 'puck bunny'. Puck slut makes me imagine a girl in tiny but awesome armour using a lot of pucks as weapons. Puck bunny just makes me think of a bunny mascot or a bunny that likes pucks as much as carrots.
Now into my rant. Puck sluts (or bunnies), groupies, whatever female football/soccer/golf/basketball/you name it fans are called all have one thing in common (ok beside the sport thing); these are all names for female sport fans. Why are we called these names? Why don't guys have these names? I guess you could say that we have these names related to sports because sports are "for men" (read in a deep loud voice).
But music isn't for men! Music isn't just for men, and especially boybands/young groups (or so a lot of men think at least), but do they have any names? No. Well I guess you could say some people call them fags or homos or whatever else homophobic assholes come up with, but that's more homophobic than music related. But then again when a man likes, say, a young girl musician he's not really chastised for it because other men will just go "oh yeah she's hot".
Women don't like sports. Women don't like musicians because they're hot, we like them because they're emotional and can make the tears or smiles or whatever else women feel poor out. Men don't have emotions, they're men!! they're hardcore robots who can't cry. I don't think I can specify this enough: WOMEN CAN DO AND FEEL AND BE WHATEVER MEN CAN AND VICE VERSA.
Women can be sport fans, and a lot of men know this, but as soon as we get into a skirt/dress, low-cut shirt, makeup and fan over the players we're called puck sluts. Women can like music but as soon as we're twelve years old screaming over a boyband/musician we're annoying fangirls and then as soon as women get older and drool over bands/musicians we're groupies.
Why? Are men just really that desperate to have something to themselves? You'll never have anything to yourselves, there's always someone who likes what you like. And if you want something separate from your wife/girlfriend(/boyfriend/husband probably too but not as much) you can use something, anything she/he doesn't like. It can be sports, I mean I know not all women like sports, but you could even just take a walk for an hour.
Honestly, though, why? It's statistically proven that women/girls are the reason boybands get so famous, and don't start whining about it because guess what, The Beatles were one of those bands that had a billion girls screaming after them, both fangirls and 'groupies'. Didn't really hear you complain about them.
That's not really the case for sports, but that's because sport ads and such are targeted at men because obviously men are the only ones who like sports... this isn't really applicable, though, because it's not like women are the ones who have been making sports popular. Men have been more into sports from the beginning, but that's because of the marketing like I said before, and nowadays it's getting more even by the day. In this case it's more just if women get to be fans of sports you get more fans of sports - of your team - and why wouldn't you want that?
Which makes me think of bandwagoners, as in fans who only like a team because they're popular at a particular moment in time. I get being frustrated at people who say they love a team and then they jump off the train as soon as the team starts doing badly, but they're fans and don't you want more fans for your team? It's not always related, but usually if a team has lots of fans they do well because they don't want to disappoint their fans. But then again if you're not a bandwagoner you'll never be disappointed, just (a bit) sad. At least in my experience. Still, more fans=success.
Now I would talk about how men mostly only watch sausage fest TV shows or how we can't go out alone at night or wear tank tops or low cut dresses or short skirts without men attacking us, but that would be another shit ton of paragraphs so I'll leave it like it is.
ANYWAY........ I was watching a hockey game earlier because I'm now into hockey and I started thinking about puck sluts. Not really puck sluts in a way, but that was the starting thought. Before I get into my rant can I just say that I kind of love the phrase 'puck slut' and 'puck bunny'. Puck slut makes me imagine a girl in tiny but awesome armour using a lot of pucks as weapons. Puck bunny just makes me think of a bunny mascot or a bunny that likes pucks as much as carrots.
Now into my rant. Puck sluts (or bunnies), groupies, whatever female football/soccer/golf/basketball/you name it fans are called all have one thing in common (ok beside the sport thing); these are all names for female sport fans. Why are we called these names? Why don't guys have these names? I guess you could say that we have these names related to sports because sports are "for men" (read in a deep loud voice).
But music isn't for men! Music isn't just for men, and especially boybands/young groups (or so a lot of men think at least), but do they have any names? No. Well I guess you could say some people call them fags or homos or whatever else homophobic assholes come up with, but that's more homophobic than music related. But then again when a man likes, say, a young girl musician he's not really chastised for it because other men will just go "oh yeah she's hot".
Women don't like sports. Women don't like musicians because they're hot, we like them because they're emotional and can make the tears or smiles or whatever else women feel poor out. Men don't have emotions, they're men!! they're hardcore robots who can't cry. I don't think I can specify this enough: WOMEN CAN DO AND FEEL AND BE WHATEVER MEN CAN AND VICE VERSA.
Women can be sport fans, and a lot of men know this, but as soon as we get into a skirt/dress, low-cut shirt, makeup and fan over the players we're called puck sluts. Women can like music but as soon as we're twelve years old screaming over a boyband/musician we're annoying fangirls and then as soon as women get older and drool over bands/musicians we're groupies.
Why? Are men just really that desperate to have something to themselves? You'll never have anything to yourselves, there's always someone who likes what you like. And if you want something separate from your wife/girlfriend(/boyfriend/husband probably too but not as much) you can use something, anything she/he doesn't like. It can be sports, I mean I know not all women like sports, but you could even just take a walk for an hour.
Honestly, though, why? It's statistically proven that women/girls are the reason boybands get so famous, and don't start whining about it because guess what, The Beatles were one of those bands that had a billion girls screaming after them, both fangirls and 'groupies'. Didn't really hear you complain about them.
That's not really the case for sports, but that's because sport ads and such are targeted at men because obviously men are the only ones who like sports... this isn't really applicable, though, because it's not like women are the ones who have been making sports popular. Men have been more into sports from the beginning, but that's because of the marketing like I said before, and nowadays it's getting more even by the day. In this case it's more just if women get to be fans of sports you get more fans of sports - of your team - and why wouldn't you want that?
Which makes me think of bandwagoners, as in fans who only like a team because they're popular at a particular moment in time. I get being frustrated at people who say they love a team and then they jump off the train as soon as the team starts doing badly, but they're fans and don't you want more fans for your team? It's not always related, but usually if a team has lots of fans they do well because they don't want to disappoint their fans. But then again if you're not a bandwagoner you'll never be disappointed, just (a bit) sad. At least in my experience. Still, more fans=success.
Now I would talk about how men mostly only watch sausage fest TV shows or how we can't go out alone at night or wear tank tops or low cut dresses or short skirts without men attacking us, but that would be another shit ton of paragraphs so I'll leave it like it is.