She fell! And was elbowed in the face! And was shoved into a wall! Ok so that does sound bad…
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I make my wife carry roller skates everywhere, that way people think she is a roller girl.
I forget, what’s sexy about a bloody woman?
Yeah, the “sexy” picture on the left kind of creeps me out.
I can’t find the “sexy” in that picture. Or the “funny” for that matter.
Captain Obvious reporting for duty…
The point is that a girl can be as bloody and sporty as a guy gets playing, say, rugby and still maintain her femininity and sexual allure. The blood here (along with the clothes and skate props) represents the mark of an active and rough life that might usually be associated with a male in traditional society. That’s as opposed to cultural norms where girls are more likely to hide such tendencies and marks beneath more culturally acceptable attire and make-up that is unsuited to such a life-style.
Here we are provoked to thought by the fact that such a lifestyle is portrayed as a positive, desirable and very feminine trait to be accentuated (the opposite of what one normally might expect). Hence, it is not the blood in and of itself which is intended to be sexy by the author, but the woman herself who adopts this overall lifestyle, displaying physical fortitude – ignoring or accentuating clear injury – along with the inner strength required to upend common cultural expectations.
…plus they also probably want to sell sports apparel.
The person who posted this picture presumably finds this active and rough side of his girlfriend’s personality to be attractive and is part of why he cares for her. However, the intended humour lies in irony. Society often mistakes such marks for signs of lack of care – to the point of harm – on the boyfriend’s part.
Captain f**king Obvious away!
I used to get dirty looks when out with my ex. The has a blackbelt in aikido, and would often bear bruises of obvious hard handprints on her arms. People clearly thought I was being rough with her, ignorant of the fact that she could easily tie me in a knot & throw me through a wall if inclined.
Same here. I run, I climb, I mosh, I occasionally do a little off-road motorbiking, I practice several martial arts (and once spent a year doing SKK: a mix of Kung Fu and Krav Maga). I can’t go out on a date with a guy or a girl, but especially a guy, and wear anything short-sleeved (or, heavens forbid, show my legs!) without my date getting evil looks all night from random strangers. It puts a slight crimp in the social life.
Hell, I’ve laughed so hard right now! Made my day
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I love you, Captain Obvious!
Wow, you actually nailed that. it also makes fun of the fact that everyone, including the other posters here, are far too quick to assume that it must the result of a male misdeed.
Thank you captain Obvious.
You saved the day once again.
What will we do without you?
Captain …. I think I love you just a little bit
I do roller derby, and SCA heavy fighting ….. always covered in bruises …. this is a funny pic
Well said, Captain Obvious!
Yay! Captain Obvious, you’re awesome!
Dumb, da-dumb dumb dumb
It’s a derby thing
We take pride in our bruises!
Yes but since some man allowed it, even watched it, or erotisized and glorified it, it is the same as if he beat the crap out of you with his own hands. Everytime you throw up a wicked check and smack some chick in the face, it is a mans fault. Wake up dude. Stop supporting the aggressive patriarchal system of violence toward women!
lolwut
Cecil: That’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard today. Derby is a real sport with real athletes and team work. The women who skate in derby do not do it for men. They do it for the same reason anyone who pursues a sport does it…because they LOVE IT!
I understand that, and agree. Have friends and nieces who actually participate here and in Hawaii. It is still a mans fault, I mean not in a logical or rational world, but in the real one yes. It turns out that is growing body of literature in deviant behavior stating that Roller Derby is in fact a form of men oppressing women, encouraging them to harm each other for male amusement. It is frequently compared to pole dancing and mud wrestling, and recently there is a notion emerging that “habitual wife beaters and rapists seek out roller derby participant for intimate affairs.” thus implying that roller derby is breeding ground for mens punching bags.
The issue is not roller derby, it is the virulent tendency to seek out male fault.
Can you provide some citations for this literature? None of the peer reviewed journal articles on roller derby I have found have stated anything about roller derby as a sport that reinforces patriarchy. In my own ethnographic research, which deals with femininity and identity in female roller derby athletes, I have found nothing of the sort.
That is the STUPIDEST thing I have EVER read! I’m a roller girl and if you read the history of roller derby you will find that it was not the MEN that set it on fire and t’s not th eMEN that keep it going. Women LOVE this sport, they love to support it, watch it, and DO IT!
playing derby makes going to the doctor take twice as much time, as they ask you “do you feel safe at home? what are those bruises from?” over and over and over again.
As a former derby girl, I’ve been through that before. It’s annoying as hell.
But as a nursing student, I can tell you that that’s one of the first things they teach us to look for and ask – “Do you feel safe at home?” A huge number of women (and children, and even some men) are out there getting beaten at home and not saying anything about it. At least the doc’s doing her/his job.
So true. As a sporty woman I’m pretty proud when I get a big bruise after a game….walk around holding my head up and feeling like a badass…
But while I’m happily strutting around inevitable someone or the other pulls me to the side and asks ‘if everything is alright at home’ It’s so embarassing to know people only see you like that.
It happened to a friend who played rugby. She went to the hospital for something and the medical team was too fixated on her bruises to get to the real problem. Another friend who did martial arts in high school was pulled aside by her teachers who were about to call the police on her boyfriend until she made a video of them practicing and took it in to school to show them, “I’m being beaten-and I’m kicking his ass back.”
It’s still nice to know that people care, though!
Same’s happened to a girl I know, she plays hockey a lot, and ends up with quite a few bruises, went to the doctors for something completely unrelated, and ended up getting questioned, and she got questioned at school, even though people knew she played hockey.
But you’re right, guess it’s good people care, I mean, if no one ever questioned, people who actually do have violent partners, or parents, or whatever, would go unnoticed and it’d never get better.
People only care one way though. Bruises on a male that doesn’t do sports would be ignored. If they say their GF is beating them they get told to man up. People don’t really care, they’re just reinforcing a social pattern.
Someone made a series of videos where a female is attacking a male on a park bench. People walked by and did nothing.
Yeppers. And you may also note how all these posters are like “Oh, that’s bad for the woman to be perceived like that!” and completely ignoring the fact that people are basically calling the men they ‘love’ pieces of crap. Awesome.
As for the comment about how the doctors are doing their jobs. Women are actually more likely to hit their spouse than men are, massively more likely to commit verbal abuse, but you will NEVER hear a doctor say “Did your head get split open because your GF is psychotic?”
Wait? You have strangers in your kitchen?
Let’s see what a roller derby girl thinks of your comment…
^This!
Dear, wait until I hipcheck your ass into my oven.
^ I approve of this
Let me get this straight. It’s ok to joke about stuffing a person into an oven because they are male? So murder is a joke, if a woman does it to a man?
YES.
And I’m a guy.
Then you should go ahead and climb into an oven. While your at it, I’d be more than happy to stuff your son in their too, you know, for the gene pool sake.
As someone who finds “feminists” who are actually misandrists highly annoying…
chill the f*** out. The joke was about Charlemagne making a stupid, overused joke, and having it turned against him. It was not about him being male.
You are also a hypocrite. You got butthurt because somebody made an OBVIOUS joke about “murdering” somebody who was being an idiot… and then implied that you would murder someone’s child for the crime of being RELATED to someone you disagree with.
In other news, death threats on FailBlog comments are not serious business.
No, tossing his son in the oven with his obviously misandryst butt had nothing to do with relation. The child is male, thus the son part, and therefore it is highly amusing and beneficial to the world if he is burnt alive. How else can we save some women in the future from his inevitable abuse.
Also, you DON’T have an issue with feminists of that nature, since you appear to support them constantly, and in many ways. I dearly hope that you are blessed with a son, and that he gets the raw end of the stick from some psychotic woman who ends up facing no real consequences for her actions.
Just saying.
Don’t sweat the crazies. Females oft times misconstrue something, anything, and accuse everyone else of being violent morons while openly embracing child murder
“I’d be more than HAPPY to stuff your son in there too”
Or contradicting herself about Misandry by claiming she hates it and yet would GLADLY burn his SON alive just for being related to his FATHER.
Or contradictions about murder in general
“Let me get this straight. It’s ok to joke about stuffing a person into an oven because they are male? So murder is a joke, if a woman does it to a man?”
“Then you should go ahead and climb into an oven. While your at it, I’d be more than happy to stuff your son in their too, you know, for the gene pool sake.”
Oops, I misconstrued what she was saying. My bad.
I am Male and I am an MRA. My guess would be that hyperbole needs definition at the moment.
Hyperbole
noun Rhetoric.
1.obvious and intentional exaggeration.
2.an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.”
3. It’s ok to stick a child in the oven because it is male.
Those are all one part hyperbole to make a point. Unfortunately they are also tragically true from the perspective of the overwhelming of western women. It is unfathomable to imagine that average wife would not end the life of her husband or her sons for a Gucci purse. If you’re actually thick enough to believe your wife or mother wouldn’t end you for a taco, then you should ask yourself why they think it is comedy when a man is drugged, nearly killed and then has his penis lopped off and tossed into the garbage disposal. Or, like the guy who set himself on fire in CT on the steps of the courthouse. Why are they ok with that? Be my guest to investigate. I seriously doubt you know a single female who wouldn’t laugh her butt of hearing about either. The crowd on Osbournes show is absolutely typical of women.
On a really windy day one of my coworkers was getting into her car, a big gust of wind caught the door and slammed the side of her nose. She had two massive black eyes afterward and no customers would believer her when she told them a door seriously hit her in the face.
My mom had surgery on her eyelids that gave her two huge black eyes. When she went to class, her students were horrified, and she told them she’d gotten in a bar fight.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Love this
Typical sexist garbage.
Women are comparatively likely to hit men, and when they do they’re far more likely to use a weapon or solid object to do so. If the male reports obvious injuries, he’s likely to be mocked and ignored instead of taken seriously by the police.
And yet, it’s WOMEN who they claim under-report abuse…
Domestic violence is bad no matter who does it to whom. FWIW, as a teacher, I am all over any sort of physical contact (slapping, hitting, general roughhousing) between students. And yes, the girls are at least as bad as the boys about staying out of other people’s “bubble”.
Yes, except if a girl hit a boy in the back of the head with a hammer, it is funny.
If the boy retaliates by pushing her out of his path, he is evil, eventually ending up with a record that will follow him for the rest of his life.
There is a clear bias, clearly based on the fact that women are allowed to perpetrate any manner of injury or illness on a man and it is assumed to be both preferred and acceptable.
“Yes, except if a girl hit a boy in the back of the head with a hammer, it is funny.”
Cecil – That’s the funniest line in this whole damn thread! Bravo!
Bloody isn’t sexy.
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Domestic violence? Men shouldn’t hit women? Women shouldn’t hit men? PEOPLE SHOULDN’T HIT PEOPLE.
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Sorry if you get asked if the bruises are from your boyfriend / husband but, what the hell do you expect?
If they didn’t ask, you’d be on here complaining that even though you have two black eyes and a fat lip, no one asked you if everything was ok. Be glad people give a shat.
You phrased that wrong. Men shouldn’t hit people. People can hit men, and it is no big deal.
Women = People, with an intrinsic value placed on their not being dead. Men are pretty much by definition NOT human beings and as such there is no real value placed on their not being dead.
A mans value is equal to his willingness to die for a woman, his ability to have his needs dismissed and continue to provide whatever is asked of him while keeping his mouth shut, the zeros in his bank account, and so on.
This little ‘joke’ is one more of the notions that constitute the infrastructure for the hatred and dehumanization of your sons, brothers, fathers, husbands.
A woman I know was wearing dark sunglasses. One time, she forgot her glasses and I noticed she had a bruised eye. She told me she slipped and fell at the pool and I believed her.
About a week later, she rushes to my house to use the phone so she could call 911 on her husband. He was beating her AGAIN. She then told me she lied about the slipping at the pool.
So when women lie about how they got their bruise, how are you supposed to know the real truth?
Clearly, we should summarily execute all males she has had contact with, just in case.
That way we’ll be sure to prevent abuse! Except in cases where women stay at home, so to prevent abuse in those cases we should randomly send SWAT teams into people’s houses to check for abuse.
Except the male might be hiding the abuse or it could be verbal or mental cruelty, so our SWAT teams should just shoot any males they find.
Would this final solution be enough for you, sir?
Why are you being so mean? My question was a serious one.
No, it wasn’t. It was a question based on the assertion that ALL men are abusers, and all women helpless victims in all circumstances. You’re a typical chivalrous white knight who demonizes men for absolutely no reason what so ever. That, sir, basically requires you to not only see men as dirt, but women as weak and inferior.
Double suck.
okay, since the above posters are crazy, I’ll answer your question.
If they lie to you it is because they don’t want you to know and they are releiving you of your social responsibility. They have decided that it is better for themselves to stay quiet about it. They have decided to go back home to the abuse. They have the right to do so.
If you SEE the abuse, you obligated to do what you know is right and report it.
I dont wanna dissapoint anyone but bloody or not, roller derby girls rarely look that pretty :S
Swish I play derby and let me tell you, some of the girls I play with are drop dead gorgeous!
As for our bruises.. well we show them off with pride as we got them playing a sport we love. Everyone who knows me knows I play but my husband does have to explain my injuries to some folk. Saying that, he comes to practice with me and can get bruised himself lol!
Totally awesome that everyone assumes that the man you love is a sack of crap.
I commend you on continuing to tacitly support the demonization of men and boys in our society,
You aren’t making any damn sense! Yeah, it sucks that society thinks she’s being beaten, but by explaining it to others she is not in any way supporting that demonization but rather dispelling it.
People, please don’t sweat the crazies.
My husband once left a HUGE hickey on my neck (because I had never had one and wanted him to give me it). I covered half of my neck and looked like a big, nasty bruise, but I loved it because I felt like my husband marked me as his.
I walked around proudly showing it off. People gave me funny looks and my husband felt bad for “ruining my nice skin” but I was happy with it.
No one approached me about it and no one looked at him funny. no harm, no foul.
You’re an idiot. So chicks aren’t supposed to do anything that might give them a mark because it might make a man look bad? Just stay at home in a June Cleaver dress and pumps, vacuuming the rug and baking cookies? Like I said. Idiot.
That must be it, genius. The problem is obviously women leaving the house and not the part where it is naturally assumed that a man just randomly beat her ass, because that’s what men do.
Your own damned post, about the pamphlets and such IS in fact the point. Despite you being actively engaged in fighting and other sports, the automatic assertion that some evil creature with a penis was responsible, was somehow harming you, is the problem.
You support that day to day. Should a male you love(son, father, brother, friend) be the recipient of those assumptions, say if his girlfriend or wife took up such sports, you would continue to find it acceptable no doubt.
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Most roller derby chicks I have seen are usually huge butch dykes…..
Obviously you haven’t seen many roller derby chicks.
How many have you actually seen? 3? As a fan of the sport, I can tell you that many of them are gorgeous women with husbands and children. Maybe you should take the “Hunter” part off of your name.
Ok, that’s not even the same woman.
Wow genius. Caught that, huh? You should read Captain Obvious’s post.
Well, it’s not your fault if strangers are stupid.
She could kick your ass if she wanted to. And the asses of all those strangers too.
^^^^ hahahahaha!!!!
I joined a roller derby team to have a not-so-lame excuse when my dog hurts me.
I myself am I roller derby girl. When I get bruises I like to flaunt them. When people ask me where they came from I love the fact that I can say I got them from roller derby and Im part of the CNYRD (Central New York Roller Derby) league. Its so much fun and an amazing sport to be apart of. I love my bruises!
My wife had the same issues. We’re both fencers, and back when we competed regularly, she always used to walk around with bruises all up and down her arms, and people would look at me like a wife-beater. It was….uncomfortable.
That derby girl is not sexy. Nearly every single derby girl I know personally is not sexy, and in fact is quite the opposite.
I was very active in sports and fighting in high school. Always had bruises and cuts that made people ask me weird questions and hand me cards and pamphlets. LOL And no matter how hard you try to tell the truth and explain, they always think you’re lying. Eventually I just stopped trying to explain because those that knew me, knew what the marks were from and didn’t bother to ask.