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I think that if they want to be taken seriously, not as an over-sexualised group of dykes, then they need to start acting a bit more mature. For god sakes, would it kill you to wear pants? or a uniform? Maybe they just enjoy looking like hookers, I dunno. But all sports have a uniform of a sort. Most female roller-derby teams just look like scary gangs of women. Creepy.

The men and women on a derby team all work together to achieve physical goals designed to make game play safe and interesting. Our training is hard and it brings us closer together as a group. Yes, I said men. Many leagues are currently starting up brother squads or are rolling co-ed. Aside from skating co-ed, we also run and operate the team together. The combination of entrepreneurial skills and physical achievement we accomplish as a community is a one of a kind experience.

That community I mentioned is made up of all walks of life an not just a bunch of enraged blue collar workers. On my team alone we have a public defender, a college profesor, a photographer, a doctor, countless mothers, a few bartenders, a marine, some postal workers, mechanics, pin up models and karate instructors. Any other team you talk to will tell you the same thing. The age and size range is phenomenal. Derby accepts everyone as long as they are willing to work. The only thing we all have in common is out desire to skate and to support one another on and off of the rink.

I would have suggested that before you went and bashed the sport, you should have done a little internet research on the leagues through out the globe and then maybe followed that up by sitting in a on practice. Maybe then you would have been able to see that these are hard working men and women who laugh and cry together and who do the T & A in a closed rink and not just for the completely irrelevant male gaze. You would have seen camaraderie that redefines normal friendships. You might have learned something instead of seeing the skirts and jumping to conclusions.

Here’s the last little jewel I read, from one of Twisty’s comments: “If roller derby were considered a sport even at the level of legitimacy of pro wrestling, there would be men doing it.”

And…? So what? Are you seriously measuring the legitimacy of a sport by male response? No patriarchal norms there! Gee, thanks for the laughs. Your patriarchy’s in my radical feminism! Your radical feminism’s in my patriarchy! AHAHAHAHAHA!!

Why have I been called, either directly or indirectly in these blogs;
A whore
A slut
In the same system as;
Child Rapist
Rape Fantasies

Why do you hate me cause my sport is on Roller Skates, aren’t we in this together?

I have given my heart and soul to this sport and to my sisters, that is feminism no matter what you say.

I would normally try to post something more profound, but I am dumbfound (sorry for the homonyms) and really saddened by the tone of some of the ‘women’ in this discussion.

YOU DUMB BiTCHHH.

HATTEERRRRR:)