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No. 5539
Anonymous
9th April 2014 Wednesday 6:15 pm
5539
Roller derby
http://www.vice.com/en_se/read/roller-derby-sweden-vs-finland
A friend of mine has gotten into roller derby. Well, his fiancé has and his method of supporting her on her important life choice is by being incredibly over-the-top and enveloping himself in the roller derby world, which is why I've had it thrown down my throat for a year or so.
I just wanted to find a place where I could bitch about roller derby and masquerade it as a simple disagreement with this article. If a game allows - nay, actively requires - you to customise your equipment with teenager's-backpack-style stickers and choose an alter-ego, then I don't believe it's a sport. If these people spent as much time practicing a sport as they did posing for photos in their equipment for their team's Facebook page, they might actually get good at a legitimate sport.
My friend tries to justify it by saying I should see a men's game (I won't call it a bout) before I shrug it off, but having met some of the blokes that are into the sport, I can vouch for them being weird people that are trying to be some male counterpart to the alt-girl. I don't think I'd enjoy watching people skate slowly in circles regardless of gender.
Can we talk about roller derby? Preferably in agreement that it's shit, but I'm open to being called a cunt for having this opinion.
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