i think it's more that the pink stuff is...not the team colors so it's weirdly setting female fanhood in a space apart.
― horseshoe, Thursday, February 16, 2012 10:58 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
ok, yeah, that makes sense. it's hard to sort out, though, cuz "normal" sports gear is so strongly coded as masculine. it's not just that we think of it as that, but that it bases itself on other masculine coded stuff, and exerts a profound influence on masculine culture as a whole.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
do all teams have these? That just seems really weird to me, like, a team's colors are an integral part of their brand, part of their identity, it's almost like it's a different team. I dunno, I just remember being 11 years old and thinking i was so cool for owning a silver & black Raiders hoodie. And now that I live in Oakland, I don't think I've ever seen any femme-y colored Raiders gear.
― sarahell, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
the idea of wearing pink raiders' gear is particularly tragic. but yeah, pink gear definitely exists for all of the nfl franchises afaik
― horseshoe, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://tradebenefit.com/pic/NFL-Oakland-Raiders--2320-McFadden-Pink-Women-Jersey-7316.jpg
― getting good with gulags (beachville), Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
was just going to link that which, btw, is called the: 2010 Women's Zebra Field Flirt Fashion Jersey
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
how you going to mess with the baddest-looking uniforms in the league like that
― horseshoe, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
2010 Women's Zebra Field Flirt Fashion Jersey
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, February 16, 2012 2:09 PM (19 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lololol
whoa! Have never seen anyone on the street sporting anything like that! Maybe it's a bedroom item?
― sarahell, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
I bet if you went to a game you would.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like that shit must just not sell to raiders fans. the whole point of being a raiders fan is looking cool y/n?
― horseshoe, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
that's a good question for Veg. Grrl iirc?
― sarahell, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know anything about the Raiders so HS may be right but I still you might spot some in the stadium.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
i did totally crush on Jim Plunkett when I was 11, so weird.
― sarahell, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
plus there's a whole line of team-colored tight bedazzled UGHHHH boobalicious tshirts for Raider chicks...I have had the hardest time finding team stuff that I like
but this is kind of a mega derail fromz's observations so...
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
The workers at my local grocery store are allowed to wear jerseys on game days, and since we have purple down here, the pink and purple mix felt kinda advent-y to me.
― getting good with gulags (beachville), Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
no i'm sure you would, i'm just saying if you don't want to be part of the sea of silver and black i would like to sic the ghost of al davis on you
― horseshoe, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
xxp to E
― horseshoe, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
oh sorry I forgot we're not allowed thread derails on ILX
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
― horseshoe, Thursday, February 16, 2012 2:10 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
you and i, i think, have different definitions of the word "cool"
― max, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
I'd go for boobalicious and team-colored though. It's the pink stuff, that's like, wtf?
― sarahell, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
the whole point of being a raiders fan is looking cool y/n?
― horseshoe, Thursday, February 16, 2012 11:10 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
sure, but "looking cool" is masculine coded, almost without exception. in that sense, pink raiders shit seems kind of awesome.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
it's only masculine coded in the sense of the dominance of the "male gaze" - there are male and female coded versions of "looking cool"
― sarahell, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
― max, Thursday, February 16, 2012 2:13 PM (28 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha cool in a mad max-y apocalyptic crazy future pirate way
contenderizer i recognize what you're talking about. i don't have contempt for pink in general. (i have a pink puffy winter coat! it's v kelly kapoor.) i think it's hard to argue against the patronizing nature of pink fan gear marketed to women, though.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
but yeah, Raiders fan wear for women looks like it plays to a bad stereotype but the amount of women I see wearing that stuff to games, it's a very weird chicken/egg situation imo
(I didnt want to get in trouble for raider-talk, I was just trying to cover my ass re derail comment, lol)
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
re: the shirt
you could call it a feminine violation of cool/tough/dudely raiders-ness just as easily as an ostraciziation of women from the team. but yeah, i get horseshoe's point.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
like, it just is weird. the whole point of sports fandom is an irrational feeling that you represent the team/are being represented by the team. if you're wearing a pink jersey you're just representing a very rigid notion of femininity?
― horseshoe, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
Veg, are the women wearing the pink shirts, or just blingee silver & black boob-accentuating stuff?
― sarahell, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
xp I think the subtext is that they assume you don't care about the team.
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
totes
― horseshoe, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
that is a better way of saying why it's annoying, Laurel, thank you
but you care about yr man who cares about the team!
― sarahell, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
feel like ally went on an otm/hilarious rant about this in some ilnfl thread of yore.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
I honestly dont see a lot of fans at game wearing that much pink bullshit tbh, Raider fans are pretty tribal over the team colors, for the most part
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
― horseshoe, Thursday, February 16, 2012 2:17 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
YES! Also what Laurel said otm.
re: i don't have contempt for pink in general. (i have a pink puffy winter coat! it's v kelly kapoor.) i think it's hard to argue against the patronizing nature of pink fan gear marketed to women, though.
Pink is my favorite color. Looking around my desk just now I saw seven or eight pink things. Not liking those shirts has nothing to do with not liking pink in general.
Who is kelly kapoor?
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
― sarahell, Thursday, February 16, 2012 11:15 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
this is true, but masculine cool tends to exaggerate traditionally masculine-coded attributes. feminine cool tends to minimize the traditionally feminine. i.e., most female coded version of looking cool = subtle and not-so-subtle masculinization. implies that the traditionally feminine isn't cool enough to be cool.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
haha kelly kapoor is the mindy kaling character on the office
― horseshoe, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
and yeah I was just talking about off the shoulder fitted jerseys & blinged out stuff
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
see that's what I thought! SF Giants fans seem less tribal (both of these assumptions are based solely on seeing people going to/from games walking down the street/on public transit), but I've never seen pink shit on them either.
― sarahell, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
also a better example of refiguring masculine cool in sports gear is when ally contemplated belting a huge giants jersey she owned and wearing it as a dress. in some ilnfl thread of yore.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
i am not a crazed ally stalker i promise; i just miss her
― horseshoe, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Thursday, February 16, 2012 11:18 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
okay, yeah, it puts being a "girl" over being a fan. makes sense.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
x-post I hope she did that.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
xp Yes.
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
also is there anything cool about a dude wearing a football jersey? because i live in buffalo i often see men wearing them like, out to dinner on a tuesday night and it's always like, really? i don't think cool is partic important to those guys.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
i think the subtext is even worse, because if the woman doesn't care about the team, why is she wearing said item of clothing? Presumably to appeal to a guy. Which is gross in more ways than one: 1. that she isn't appealing enough as herself that she needs to additionally brand herself; 2. the pigeonholing that we've previously discussed
― sarahell, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
That's totally how I see it. Cringeworthy.
― le ralliement du doute et de l'erreur (Michael White), Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think cool is partic important to those guys.
― horseshoe, Thursday, February 16, 2012 11:24 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
you'd be surprised. cool is v important to guys, and we have LOTS of different ways of constructing it. to many guys, a sports jersey is the height of sartorial coolness.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
omg i am not five! i guess i am objecting to the word "cool" but yes, of course wearing a football jersey is a performance of a certain kind of masculinity. i think the guys i am talking about would take pride in their "uncoolness" where "coolness" is read as effeminate.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
but please, explain to me more about guys.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
football players in jerseys:yesdudes in throwbacks: yes, kinda in public or at a bar it's almost a signpost "i will be shitty drunk & shouting later, fyi"
I dont think it's as dorkville as some do, but I like seeing team loyalty anyway
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link