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Friday, August 24, 2007
It's that time again!
Yes, folks, it's that time of year when angry female bloggers rant about the pink merchandise. This time, though, I'll let them do it (tworants is enough for now). Here's Scarlett Ice's take:
Look, I know a lot of women like pink. I, myself have always disliked the colour but I'm not about to judge and ostracize you if you have a preference to wear it. The thing is, you can't pigeon-hole the female fanbase and say you're catering to their needs when all you offer them in their sizes and cuts are jerseys that completely eliminate the point of offering team merchandise in the first place. What's the point of shelling out for a team's jersey when they're all the same colour?
There is a pretty healthy discussion going in the comments as well. The common thread? Not one of the hockey bloggers who commented would ever buy a pink, "Sens Girl" t-shirt. It would kind of be like wearing a Hooters outfit to your first day at Harvard.
PINK? PINK?! Gee NHL, stereotype much? It has been my extensive experience that the average female fan is a fan of the GAME first, and the players a distant second...But pink? Oh HELL no–I do not need some drunken smacktard taking a look at me wearing some Pepto Pink pile of crap and projectile vomiting a bunch of puckbunny smack in my general direction...
Unfortunately, I think we're stuck with this stuff for a while. Take a look at a Caps ad from last year and note what the women are wearing. Someone doesn't get it.
You know, I've never understood it myself. I can get the pink hats, the pink shirts, people like pink. But jerseys, that sort of goes against the entire point doesn't it?
Hell, I know some women who are offended they alter the jersey into a female cut, this pink shit drives them up the wall.
For me, its that an NHL team is patronizing when all they offer females fans is pink merchandise. We dont even have the option of buying women's sizes in jerseys.
Its great that you have been highlighting this DCSC. I am there with you, as well as a whole lot of bloggers, male and female.
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You know, I've never understood it myself. I can get the pink hats, the pink shirts, people like pink. But jerseys, that sort of goes against the entire point doesn't it?
Hell, I know some women who are offended they alter the jersey into a female cut, this pink shit drives them up the wall.
For me, its that an NHL team is patronizing when all they offer females fans is pink merchandise. We dont even have the option of buying women's sizes in jerseys.
Its great that you have been highlighting this DCSC. I am there with you, as well as a whole lot of bloggers, male and female.
And Lord...that commercial.
I read in ESPN Mag that Alyssa Milano's Touch will be coming out with NHL, NFL and NCCA lines. She doesn't like pink.
Good gravy, you even picked a Caps v PENGUINS commercial!
Are you hopping on the Diver's bandwagon, too? :~)
Victor, bite your tongue!
:-)
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