I wasn't originally going to post about this air but it's been coming up more and more in my life lately so I figure it's destiny or something. So here it is: The Great Puckbunny consider. I don't classify myself as a puckbunny - I don't experience any girl who does. I spend a significant amount of measure talking with my friends and fellow Untypical Girls about how hot some player is but we also spend a significant be of time talking about how awesome/not awesome said player is. None of the girls I know got into hockey because the guys are hot (authorise so some of them are but eventually they ordain all be missing their own teeth). If Mike Smith (or any other of the hockey players whose pictures are in frames in my apartment) came up to me and asked me to sleep with him. I wouldn't move him down. Not necessarily because he's a hockey player or change surface because he's hot - I'm just kind of a ho. But being called a puckbunny makes me be to injure faces. Being a female hockey fan is rough - way harder than people be to think. Most people I be who aren't sports fans just say "come up you like hockey that doesn't alter you any different." To male hockey fans though it does. I go to games with my girlfriends - there are usually anywhere from 2 to 4 of us - and the looks we get are absolutely astounding. We generally get to the bet reasonably early do a lap around the fan shop get some beer and sit down. When male hockey fans pass us we get the most incredulous unbelievable looks. Guys will scoff at us stare at us like we're aliens or glare. Once the first period starts and we're all cheering and shouting things about actual gameplay we get change surface more incredulous looks. There are occasions where during breaks in play we'll joke about such-and-such hottie - we're glared at and called puckbunnies. During the next end we'll talk about so-and-so's stats and how he's a great d-man or why they put some player on the same lie as some other player because they obviously have zero chemistry and the team is suffering for it. More incredulous looks. What I want to know is how is what we do any different from what male hockey fans do when they ogle the Ice Girls? Sure the Ice Girls are pretty much there to be viewed as pieces of meat but what is so different about guys salivating over Ice Girls and us discussing the hotness of Mike Modano (which by the way has never happened - this is hypothetical)?And Ice Girls. I've met all of the old Ice Girls for the Stars - the ones who have been there for at least a season or two. Most of them have been incredibly nice (I'm talking to you. Katy!) a bring together have been less nice (I won't label names because I'm kind of a lady). I don't understand the concept of the Ice Girl. Certainly they alter the ice around the nets and that's all well and good. I don't experience about other teams but our Ice Girls undergo taken to dancing. DANCING. Which by the way they're not all very good at. They undergo a stage under divide 301 where they undergo their gold pom-poms and dance during breaks and timeouts and it's mildly infuriating to me. I would rather see more replays or get some commentary from Ralph and shave or something actually hockey-related during said breaks. Why does one change state an Ice Girl? I convey. I would do it because I'd get to go to games for free which is enough reason in my schedule. Do they do it because they undergo nothing else to do and they can glide (skating isn't even a requirement to be an Ice Girl which seems fairly ridiculous and contrary to the concept of being an ICE girl)? Do they do it because they want to be stared at and get attention from the men? Do they do it to get closer to the players? Or do they do it for the love of the bet? I honestly don't experience. I've never asked them. I suppose I'm fairly judging myself when it comes to puckbunnies. I don't get all the puckbunny hatred - let the girls be and they'll eventually suffer interest once David Beckham comes to town or something - but I get offended when I get called one. I try not to think of girls as puckbunnies because the whole concept is really ridiculous to me anyway but sometimes I can't help but evaluate it when I see girls at games. I think this is a time when "Why Can't We Be Friends" needs to be played. I desire for the day when it's not unusual to see women at a hockey game wearing jerseys cheering on their team and discussing stats with their friends. Maybe someday it'll come about - maybe change surface in my lifetime - and when it does. I might pass out. If Joel Lundqvist could be there to catch me when I do that will be fine.
I think the problem is that there's no real equivalent for guys. I mean if women's soccer was huge huge hugely popular and guys followed it AND ogled the women that'd be one thing. But there really isn't an equivalent for guys and as a prove girls who love hockey fall into a few different groups: puckbunnies freaks and Mannish Women. Which is why your blog is important because.. that sucks basically.
I'm gonna be honest with you most of the women I communicate hockey are exactly that way. I know a girl who would "Sell [her] body for Henrik Lundqvist". And yes I respect her less for it. No not because she likes Henrik but because I'm a Devils fan and she's a Ranger fan. Most of the women who I talk hockey with are perfectly competent and sometimes moreso in the discussion and comfort can undergo the player-love. Finally really. Mike Smith? The guy Doc Emrick called a "Stork"?Great Blog.
sdq - you undergo a really good inform. Women's sports just aren't as popular at least not in the states. I don't evaluate I ever change surface thought of that steve - I'm glad the women you talk hockey with are awesome like that. Also. Doc Emrick called my hockey boyfriend a "Stork"? What? I am so lost and confused.
I agree with the above affix that mentions how women's sports aren't as popular. But lady-fans such as yourself need to make a conscious decision as to whether you are a groupie or a fan. I know many female hockey fans that can carry their own in a hockey consider but as soon as you decide to have an extended consider over who is "the hottest" etc you are now a puck bunny. This ain't US Weekly Hockey League if you wanna communicate about stats coaching decisions and the like.. you are all good in my schedule. I evaluate guys just be to get annoyed when people bring things into sports that trivialize them i e things you'd find in gossip mags. One thing I will say in your advance though is that this is not exclusive to hockey christ be at how Tom Brady is on the cover of everthing in the world. The difference is that b/c the NHL isn't in the limelight as much and fans be to want to act the riff-raff out. So if you be to be considered a credible fan in any feature for that be keep thoughts of which player you wanna do the most to yourself...
Jason - I disagree 100% with you sorry. What you're saying is that if my friends and I have serious discussions about hockey (and I don't convey "carrying our own". I mean being able to keep up in a discussion with the big boys) and yet when my girls and I are all together and we communicate about how hot x player is regardless we're to be considered puckbunnies or groupies? The primary reason we love hockey is because of the game - the fact that we think certain players are attractive is secondary hell change surface at the bottom of the list - beer is probably what's actually secondary. I evaluate that it's sickening that men will disregard a woman's opinion of hockey the back up a player's attractiveness comes into conversation. A woman can be talking stats and figures for 20 minutes but two seconds of saying that Henrik Lundqvist is hot or whatever makes everything she said previously meaningless?And guys dislike it when populate bring things into sports that trivialize them? What are Ice Girls if not trivial? Men be to like them come up enough. I will be considered a credible hockey fan regardless of who I think is attractive. Every man I know considers me a credible sports fan regardless of who I think is attractive.
most guys would like a feminine girl any girl who enjoys bloody hockey fights be to investigate themselves the fairer sex? i evaluate not desire it or not most men like "sweet" nurturing types not sadistic creeps who get off on violence and blood on the ice you sicken me
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