(Deleted comment) From: musichica05

2010-01-05 03:52 am (UTC)

The Jets do suck...haha

I know girls like that, drives me crazy..especially since they're so obvious about not knowing anything about sports. From: lazaefair

2010-01-05 01:54 am (UTC)

I'm extremely disinterested in sports and I feel bad about reinforcing that stereotype every time I ask a question. (But I really don't care about sports. :/) But I'm so sorry you have to deal with that and I'm glad you kick their asses. From: drivebyluna

2010-01-05 03:46 am (UTC)

I feel the same way you do. From: ctrl_zzzz

2010-01-05 06:56 am (UTC)

Thirded. I care less about sports than anyone else I know. From: ultrapeach

2010-01-05 08:25 am (UTC)

"I feel bad about reinforcing that stereotype every time I ask a question."

Fourthed. Although my male partner doesn't know a great deal about it either, and most of the male friends I have, so at least there's that. From: brokentapedeck

2010-01-05 10:45 am (UTC)

Fifthed. From: kitanabychoice

2010-01-05 02:49 am (UTC)

I can understand that, and I feel your pain even though I'm not big into sports-watching (I like to play them, though). It's the same thing in the gaming and graphic design community. I can definitely hold my own in that arena (genuine interest and it's what my degree will be in!) and I still get treated like "oh luls that's so cute"



=/ From: bobella12

2010-01-05 04:11 am (UTC)

Are you my twin?



You're right about the graphic design community, and it depresses me. At the beginning of our program it was about %70 female in a class on 150, and now it's three out of the twelve in the senior class. From: kitanabychoice

2010-01-05 04:49 am (UTC)

Blah, those are horrible numbers! >_<



What really annoys me is that as soon as I start talking about whatever design topic is of choice that evening, I get guys chiming in to give me "advice", to let me know about the "latest" technologies, or try to play trivia with me to "test" me. I be woman, computers is hard. From: ctrl_zzzz

2010-01-05 06:58 am (UTC)

Shit, where do you go to school? I'm a graphic design major at the Art Institute of Boston. I think the male/female ratio in our program is pretty even, actually. From: bobella12

2010-01-05 08:29 am (UTC)

I'm at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. The program is good, but for the first two years it was a lot more about weeding people out than it was about teaching design :/ From: jedibubbles

2010-01-10 03:37 am (UTC)

My animation department was roughly two-thirds men, one-third women. From: ikabarra

2010-01-05 02:55 am (UTC)

I know how you feel on the religiously following sports front- I love, love football (the European kind) and can probably kick any guy I know's ass in footie trivia, or general knowledge about the game. I guess I've been very, very lucky though, because though I fully expected people to be sceptical that I'm a female fan, I find, atleast in RL, that people hardly ever bat an eyelash if I tell them I love football, even similar diehard male fans. And I come from a pretty sexist, patriarchal country.



I suppose its because Indians are pretty mad about the sports they follow- not football, but when it comes to cricket, no man, woman or child is spared from the fanaticism. While a few odd films make fun of wives not letting their husbands watch the 'big game', every girl I've seen is pretty mad about cricket, and all the guys prettymuch aren't surprised by that. That acceptance has sort of stretched to sports in general, I guess.



I feel lucky though, reading this. My guy friends love talking football with me, and not in a patronizing, or even an 'aww, how cute sort of way,', but a genuine discussion when they need it. In fact, the only guy who told me I support a team because 'their captain is good looking, she must like him,' was a 11 year old. From: musichica05

2010-01-05 03:49 am (UTC)

You are lucky.

I get the "you only like them because they're cute" alot too, when I tell people I like the NY Giants/NY Mets. I'll admit, Eli Manning and David Wright are cute, but they aren't the sole reason I watch. Believe me, 1 cute guy is not enough to sit through a 3 hour baseball game...haha From: ikabarra

2010-01-05 03:51 am (UTC)

I totally agree. Besides, if I was watching only for the cute guys, I wouldn't watch the games per say, just the post match interviews and the parts they take their shirts off, or something. There's way too much zooming out during the game, and all the guys are just little coloured blurs for 90 minutes. Get a clue, men. From: dig_your_self

2010-01-05 03:43 am (UTC)

I love people's faces when I tell them my favourite boxer and list his stats, really is priceless shattering all of their preconceptions about women and "men's" sports. From: drivebyluna

2010-01-05 03:45 am (UTC)

This is the nice thing about my guy, he hates sports as much as I do. From: bobella12

2010-01-05 04:14 am (UTC)

I envy you. It's been nothing but nonstop football here for days. DAYS I TELL YOU! From: drivebyluna

2010-01-05 04:53 am (UTC)

:D From: saltedpin

2010-01-05 03:50 am (UTC)

I feel your pain. I had an hilarious discussion with a guy once when he felt the need to explain offside to me, but ended up getting himself hopelessly confused. I patiently explained the whole thing to him, which he did not like much at all. The silliest thing was I never asked him to tell me in the first place. From: ikabarra

2010-01-05 03:54 am (UTC)

Women explaining the offside rule to men ftw. From: saltedpin

2010-01-05 03:59 am (UTC)

Hehe, the good part is that once you know it, you really know it! From: ikabarra

2010-01-05 04:01 am (UTC)

And then you start wondering why everyone gets so confused about it all the time. From: saltedpin

2010-01-05 04:25 am (UTC)

I know! It's really not that difficult -- I guess to eyes that aren't familiar with it, seeing someone called offside might be a little mysterious, as it's not like fouling or something where it's ultra-obvious. From: eggsnail

2010-01-05 03:06 pm (UTC)

It took me a little while to catch the offside calls. Then I could finally start screaming, "He's offside!" before it was called. Proud day for me. :D From: soiamme

2010-01-05 01:14 pm (UTC)

though I'm not totally interested in sports, I still do know quite a bit about sports (I mainly enjoy sports as a means of connection with my dad... though I played handball for some time. it was great) and it annoys me when people try to explain sport terms to me.



but I feel your pain completley.. I enjoy computer games and hardcore punk. and there it goes the same way as in sports. when I tell people I play video games they think of wii (though I do own one since christmas. thehe) ... even though most of my games are rated 18+ and it's the typical 'boys games' (the best counter strike player in my circle of friends is ironically a girl).. and when they think of hardcore punk they see a girl dressed in all black with an 'emo' haircut who's only into the singer... uh... no, sir. I go in the pit and rock my heart out, I know the words by heart because I agree with them...and just because I talk with a band guy occassionally doesn't mean I'm a groupie... (gaaah RAGE!)



in the end it always comes down to girls either being seen as 'dumb', all about sex, or lesbians (because apparently it's normal for lesbians to like boys stuff or wtf?)



(more rage!) From: amycooper

2010-01-05 06:46 pm (UTC)

I have a friend who went to art school and had the very same problem except with graphic novels. Actually, the very first time she met my boyfriend (now husband) they got in a fight over something about Spiderman. She got miffed because she thought it was the same thing...until he took the time to look it up, realize she was right and emailed her about it, apologizing. They get along great now. :) From: dernhelm1982

2010-01-05 07:13 pm (UTC)

My Mom is a big baseball fan and she played softball in High School.



At work she got tired of all the guys explaining the "rules" to her and she put them in their place by telling them the correct rules.



She worked at a store that was very male dominated and they'd leave Mom with three day's work to do in a single day while they went off and partied.



She called them on it in front of Dad saying that they should start pulling their own weight in the store or she'd go to the managers and start complaining.



One of the guys said "You're just mad that you have equal rights now."



Dad got mad and said, "No it's not 'equal rights'! You lot are just too fuckin' lazy to do your job!" From: philstar22

2010-01-06 11:44 pm (UTC)

I only like a couple of sports (baseball and football). The funny thing is, my dad hates sports, as does the rest of my family. So, when I'm home, there is no one to watch them with. When I'm at school, I can usually find someone who is watching something so I can enjoy.



I do hate how guys feel they have to explain everything to you. Even when I explain back enough that it is clear I know what I'm talking about, some guys still feel the need to treat me like an idiot who's never seen a game before.