This morning while watching the news shows I saw a woman journalist commenting on football. OK. I'm sorry. There are just some things, in my opinion, that men are more suited to do than women. I cannot watch a woman sportscaster commenting on football without a little smirk on my face. Football is just such a testosterone-laden sport. It's a guy thing. It's almost the quintessential guy-thing.
I like watching football sometimes with my boys. This is a fairly recent development. For many years I have hated football. Why did I hate it? Because I didn't get it and I don't mean just the rules, which are complicated enough. I didn't understand the power aspect of it. The toughness. The just-this-side-of violence part of it. Football is a very masculine sport.
So when I see a perfectly coiffed woman talking with feigned enthusiasm about the various aspects of the game, I just can't take her seriously. It's a guy-thing. I feel like telling her to stop trying to be something she is not. A woman might be able to understand and analyze football, but it sure seems to me that she has to do it from the outside looking in. She will not be looking at it the same way a male enthusiast would. For her, it always seems a little forced.
And, for heaven's sakes, don't send the female commentator into the locker room!!! Nothing makes her look more ridiculous.
Perhaps, I'm being unfair. But that's how it seems to this opinionated mom.
2 comments:
I agree. Same thing with women covering the war. Or hunting. Or cars. I guess I'm sexist!
I guess I am too if being sexist means acknowledging the there are things to which men are more suited and others to which women are more suited. Seems silly to think otherwise.
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