Feminism can be a useful and powerful mechanism of persuading people and changing minds if used in the right context. Friday's baseball game had feminism and it persuaded people. However, it persuaded them into thinking that the feminist was emotionally unstable. I shall explain...
The first incident involved a girl who in her previous at bat had watched all six pitches go by without swinging. To try and get a reaction I shouted to my pitcher, "don't worry, she doesn't swing at anything." Wouldn't you know, she swung and hit the very next pitch. Had it not been for a failed execution on defence, we would have had an out.
*I got the desired reaction*
The second incident involves the same girl above, plus one of her female teammates. This is when the blog title really hits home! So she's up again, but this time I shout, "don't worry, she's a looker not a swinger". In my head saying, "she doesn't swing the bat unless provoked". Well the girl on second base thought otherwise and started swearing in my direction. At first, I didn't even realize she was swearing at me. Once I caught on, I said the only offensive comment I made all night, "what feminist bullshit are you spewing? My god did that make her and other members of her team mad. A tubby guy who was coaching first base began threatening to beat me up. To that I responded with a simple, "whatever", but that only aggravated him more. He took that to the next level, as if the word whatever was a fighting word. "Oh yeah really, whatever? I'll come over there and kick your ass!", he said.
Out of this, who does the umpire single out to stop talking? Me, yet the guy shouting the threats had already insulted and threatened the umpire earlier in the game.
Anyway, the feminist on second base is eventually tagged out by me at third and walked into her bench swearing and complaining. I gave her the polite version of a shut up, "shadap" because she just kept going on and on. This of course fueled the fire more leading her to let out an insulting shreak that children kilometres away would be crying over due to the profanity. She then apparently started crying. I didn't catch that part cuz I was busy playing baseball :)
Walking back to my bench at the end of the inning, I had to cross paths with the guy who had threatened me. In typical moronic guy fashion, he comes up and bumps his chest against mine and says "I'll end you." To which I smiled and again said, "whatever!" At that moment, the pitcher on my team jumped between us to break up what was an apparent fight between myself, who is perfectly calm, and a moron who is upset over basically nothing.
Finally at the end of the game, we do the usual hand shaking "good game" routine, but as soon as I get up to the feminist, she pulls her hand away from me and shouts more profanity. To which one of the women on my team shouts, "good sportsmanship you bitch." It was at that second when the feminist turned into, what I can only describe as like the South Park boys fighting over Bebe when she got boobies. By that time I had already shook hands with the guy who threatened me. The feminist was going BANANAS!!! Swearing at people, having to be restrained and over all going insane. I told members of the other team that I was leaving and wanted no part of what was going on... but we all know me, I can't let something like this go without comment. So when she isolated me for what I had done, I pointed at her like a dominant male figure and said, "...but I got the desired reaction didn't I? After that comment she went even more bananas yet I by now had walked in the direction of my car. The really funny part was that when I had reached my car, the teams were still in arguement over what had happened and needing to be broken up. One feisty bitch on my team even called her a feminist as well :p
To react the way she did over a comment not even directed towards her shows that she's been scarred by some guy in the past. I wanna find that guy and give him a high-five for the good work. Except if he's in Virginia, because then it will be illegal!
The first incident involved a girl who in her previous at bat had watched all six pitches go by without swinging. To try and get a reaction I shouted to my pitcher, "don't worry, she doesn't swing at anything." Wouldn't you know, she swung and hit the very next pitch. Had it not been for a failed execution on defence, we would have had an out.
*I got the desired reaction*
The second incident involves the same girl above, plus one of her female teammates. This is when the blog title really hits home! So she's up again, but this time I shout, "don't worry, she's a looker not a swinger". In my head saying, "she doesn't swing the bat unless provoked". Well the girl on second base thought otherwise and started swearing in my direction. At first, I didn't even realize she was swearing at me. Once I caught on, I said the only offensive comment I made all night, "what feminist bullshit are you spewing? My god did that make her and other members of her team mad. A tubby guy who was coaching first base began threatening to beat me up. To that I responded with a simple, "whatever", but that only aggravated him more. He took that to the next level, as if the word whatever was a fighting word. "Oh yeah really, whatever? I'll come over there and kick your ass!", he said.
Out of this, who does the umpire single out to stop talking? Me, yet the guy shouting the threats had already insulted and threatened the umpire earlier in the game.
Anyway, the feminist on second base is eventually tagged out by me at third and walked into her bench swearing and complaining. I gave her the polite version of a shut up, "shadap" because she just kept going on and on. This of course fueled the fire more leading her to let out an insulting shreak that children kilometres away would be crying over due to the profanity. She then apparently started crying. I didn't catch that part cuz I was busy playing baseball :)
Walking back to my bench at the end of the inning, I had to cross paths with the guy who had threatened me. In typical moronic guy fashion, he comes up and bumps his chest against mine and says "I'll end you." To which I smiled and again said, "whatever!" At that moment, the pitcher on my team jumped between us to break up what was an apparent fight between myself, who is perfectly calm, and a moron who is upset over basically nothing.
Finally at the end of the game, we do the usual hand shaking "good game" routine, but as soon as I get up to the feminist, she pulls her hand away from me and shouts more profanity. To which one of the women on my team shouts, "good sportsmanship you bitch." It was at that second when the feminist turned into, what I can only describe as like the South Park boys fighting over Bebe when she got boobies. By that time I had already shook hands with the guy who threatened me. The feminist was going BANANAS!!! Swearing at people, having to be restrained and over all going insane. I told members of the other team that I was leaving and wanted no part of what was going on... but we all know me, I can't let something like this go without comment. So when she isolated me for what I had done, I pointed at her like a dominant male figure and said, "...but I got the desired reaction didn't I? After that comment she went even more bananas yet I by now had walked in the direction of my car. The really funny part was that when I had reached my car, the teams were still in arguement over what had happened and needing to be broken up. One feisty bitch on my team even called her a feminist as well :p
To react the way she did over a comment not even directed towards her shows that she's been scarred by some guy in the past. I wanna find that guy and give him a high-five for the good work. Except if he's in Virginia, because then it will be illegal!