I'm in the kitchen making those things that seemed to be too much for just two on thanksgiving; green bean casserole, which I like and he does not, and fried gizzards which, for some reason he loves. (Gizzards? Really?)
He's watching college football, Duke and North Carolina. I don't know this, I have to ask him so I can post correctly.
Football is background noise to me, comfortable and generational. If my husband disappeared from the face of the earth, I'd listen to football just to bring his memory near. But, while he lives, I can take it or leave it.
Back to the OP.
There is a female commentator. I can tell by the screeching noise. The "woman who must be man" sound. They were making some kind of play, I don't know, I know there was this irritating Female voice. It irritates me.
So I ask my husband "what do you think about female broadcasters?" Silence.
(I have a story about this man not answering me as soon as I think he should, it involves him doing the Heimlich on himself because his non-answer was so typical, that I didn't realize he was choking and couldn't answer, but I digress)
To check his status I add "if you think about female broadcasters"
"I don't have a problem with female broadcasters" he says. (Well, krap!' I think) "except", he says, "in football".
Now I'm interested.
"Why is that."
"Because they don't play the game, they have never played the game. They play basketball, golf, baseball, they can identify with those sports - but not football" they can't call football beyond the rules. Without having played, they lack passion"
Well, he gives them more credit than I do. I think female broadcasters are just shrieking women who want to be men,regardless of the game.