i got a little out of hand, especially when it came to anita marks.

I mean, I’m going to the Bruins game tonight. I look TERRIBLE in Bruins gold. Am I wearing it anyway? Fuckin’ right I am. It’s not about looking good. It’s about screaming for your team and supporting them visually as well as vocally.

Ask Greta. I even wear Orioles orange – which color I also look terrible in – at OPACY. BECAUSE THAT’S HOW IT SHOULD WORK.

You’re supposed to coordinate. American men just forgot about this because most of them drive around in cars where nobody can see what the hell they’re wearing. Inside a car has become our public space – and when you’re inside a car it matters not what you wear. Dudes dress in other countries – well, except for Canada, Australia & to a lesser extent Britain & Ireland – which are all overly influenced by us.

Generally speaking (and I’m not talking about the guys here because I find you all quite appropriate), it is assumed that women know less about sports or that it’s something they can’t or don’t wish to understand. By marketing pink hats and pink tiny tees for sports teams, it serves to reinforce the belief that girls love sparkly things and pink and that their love of or knowledge of a sport or team is secondary to that. It’s a negative stereotype and one that I come up against a lot. Unfortunately with the amount of pink hats and woo girls roaming the earth, it’s a tough battle.

And I don’t think there is anything wrong with loving pink or sparkles (I happen to enjoy them both), but there is a time and a place for that, and that place is not the ballpark, because being a sports fan is about wearing their colors proudly despite the fact that I look like a traffic cone in orange.

Actually, because I acknowledged that if the pink hats, etc. were being sold to raise money for breast cancer research, I would have no issue with it at all. But they’re not.

Likewise, if the players wore pink hats on Mother’s Day (instead of just using pink bats), I’d shut up about it. But as it stands, it’s just a marketing thing. And I think it’s unnecessary.

because I totally get why they did it and, like you said, it seemed to work. But it annoys me that women need an entire subset of “girly-colored” athletic apparel just because they’re women. If they want to make things in women’s sizes and cuts, they absolutely should. Most women I know – self-included – look ridiculous in men’s jerseys. But that’s different because that would be marketing to women and making clothes that fit them while acknowledging that the team colors or whatever don’t need to change to include them.

And that brings us to the bandwagon fans. While I know that not all Sox fans are assholes, I also know that not all people who wear pink hats are bleacher bimbos. But it is a stereotype that certainly has a fair amount of truth to it.

If I hear one more pink-hatted idiot ask her boyfriend if Pedro is pitching…