Obviously not every woman loves Runway (I do), and not every man likes football. If an article is tongue in cheek, don't treat it like a treatise. Not every man is trying to insult womanhood. I've noticed the trend of overreaction in this blog. Like the entry on the Shamu article. Chill out, go wacko over birth control access and woman's rights, as is right, but relax a bit on articles that may overgeneralize, but wasn't written in malice. I read that article and didn't feel offended, it was rather tongue in cheek. If we get angry and senstive to every probable insult, women will become bitter indeed.

.. the Day Pass today is seems to be sponsored by Project Runway? How ironic. :D

Just for the record: My wife loves Project Runway. So do I. But not as much as I love the NFL.

Bring on more! Was this about feminism? No! Was this about women's issues? No! Is it about RT's continued need to write for The Fix? YES!

<<Put succinctly: this column was dumb.>>

Same as this Broadsheet piece.

I'm a straight man, a fan of alcoholic beverages AND of naked Scarlet…but, as a friend of mine once put it, I’d rather sit on the john and watch my legs go to sleep than watch a single minute of a football game. Or any other ‘sporting’ event for that matter! Heck, I don’t even KNOW the rules of football and I’m a 41-year-old man! And, what’s more, I hate, hate, HATE, the endless loop of ‘see how much like the people on TV and in magazines I can be!’ reality shows. Life is good. YOUR life is good. Why try and be someone else, especially for the entertainment of those at home. Ah, well…America! I love dees town!

oh great! this means my boyfriend, his two brothers, and their parents are all gay now? or rabid women? gah! whatever will we do? oh, wait... we'll be watching tv. phew.

BFF? I see it in print way too often and I have no idea what it means.

I really like most of the contributions to Broadsheet. But whether it's her Broadsheet contributions or her feature articles for Salon, I feel that Rebecca Traister writes the least important pieces.

I'm a feminist and I like Project Runway-- but I don't need to read an uninspired critique of a vapid article about feminists and Project Runway. The way this piece reads to me is like getting all excited over the latest Fox News talking head. Big deal, idiot talking heads are on that channel every day. It's not worth commenting on every ignorant and inflammatory phrase they utter. And similarly, why bother remarking on such a small, useless piece of journalism? What is the Columbia Daily Tribune??? Can't Traister find anything more worthwhile to write about??

"best friends forever"

about a fairly dumb article full of tounge-in-cheek sex-based overgeneralizations, which seeks to mine some sort of stupid pop-cultural media something-or-other in order to put together a few column inches to fill up a newspaper? Having read a few Broadsheet articles, all I can think of is a recommendation to people who live in glass houses. Something about throwing stones, I think.

Sometimes I think Rebecca Traister could stand to be a little more snarky in her feminist commentary and at times her arguments are indeed a tad hyperbolic but I for one am glad she's around to point out aptly titled dumb crap like this Pete Bland guy's column.

That column WAS totally dumb (as is his stupid smug head shot next to it). Kudos to her for keeping us all on our toes about the fact that this kind of sexist crap is marketed to people everywhere like it's the god's honest truth about how men and women are in America. In reality it's nothing more than some dumbass's culturally manufacted opinion culled together from pop up ads for MSN Today, the Man Show, and any of the gender trend stories he's absorbed over the years.

I've never watched Project Runway, and I was considering watching this season because a woman who graduated from the school I work for will be on it, but I guess maybe I shouldn't to avoid being lumped in with all the "rabid" fans who are hazardous to this idiot.

I feel like some woman should write the same article about men and their "manly" obsessions, a la that hummer ad I saw last night.

Love,

a woman fitting the highly educated, independent, feminist profile

Kate Hutchinson, what's assertive or self-actualizing about letting a slight "column" of stupid generalizations direct what you watch?

... and my husband loves the NFL. Stereotypes usually start from somewhere. Maybe the article was dumb, but there are an awful lot of women who really enjoy PR so I guess it's worth mentioning if you need to fill column inches.

It was my boyfriend who got me into the show in the first place. The show features people who are actually very talented and creative designers. If more women like it than men (which I don't believe is true), it might be because the show has a lot of talented, kick ass women of all ages in it. Aside from the annoying side competition for the models, it is a really entertaining show.

Rebecca, the column in question was only "dumb" if it's not true that the vast majority of the audience for "Runway" is women and homos, which I believe it is. And his point about men and football isn't that only straight men like football, but that it seems only straight men make such a social ritual about watching it, which is also true.

I mean, it's not as though he wrote a column about how he trained his wife to be obedient by applying techniques used to train captive show animals. I'm sure you would have really hated that.

Well, I'm addicted to Project Runway, but I also have my own season tickets to the local NFL franchise (and yes, I'm a straight, single chick).

It's always fun to fuck with the stereotypes.