Sunday, October 08, 2006

I Love the Smell of Patriarchy in the Morning


Sunday afternoon flag football games are the high point of my week. Last week we played a glorious match in pouring rain on a swamp of a field, and came home covered head-to-toe in mud. Everyone should be able to live like that. So I enthusiastically support the Women's Law Association going out of its way to recruit women's teams to play in the league.

Today, however, we are playing at team styling themselves "The Herricanes." When the other side so explicitly identifies themselves with a gender, I find myself involuntarily doing the same. Go men! Crush those girls! Strangely, our middle linebacker tells me she feels the same way. Which is good, because me need some big tackles out of her this week.

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