I'm going to preface this entry by saying that the fact that the whole entire exchange occurred over Twitter makes it all the more hilarious and was even enough for me to not make me want to comment on it. But hey, I am a modern woman and these are clearly the sign of the times. To be honest, something as silly and petty as this probably shouldn't be enough to make me finally break my blog-silence but happily enough, this coincided with my week off work.

In a nutshell, Puck Daddy got some flack from my fellow female hockey blogging brethren (sisthren?) about Carrie Millbank being one of the female hockey fans featured on their "5 Reasons I Love Hockey" series. For those who don't know Millbank is the host of NHL.com's The Hockey Show, which I confess to having never seen so I wouldn't be able to comment on its quality.

I'm not really taking a side on the issue. When I saw it I kind of just rolled my eyes and said "Boys drooling over girl with cleavage. Next." I get what the point of Millbank is and maybe I'm just too jaded and cynical to get all that worked up about it. I'm no fan of Millbank because there are a ton more females who are more qualified for her job than she is and the truth is she probably only got it because she has a great rack and looks great in booty shorts and that, to put it as eloquently as I can, really really sucks. It perpetuates an image of what a female's role within the sporting world is and it doesn't do us any credit.

That being said, I have no reason to doubt that she genuinely loves hockey (even if I do disagree with her on some points) and isn't that what it's all about in the end? Having a genuine passion for the game? If you happen to like wearing booty shorts as well that's your prerogative.

But ladies, let's not take it out on poor Puck Daddy shall we? True, there were a ton of other female fans that could have been featured (I won't take offense that I wasn't even asked, Greg because uh...this place has hardly been a hot bed of activity recently) but I'm sure that was the case for male bloggers as well. Carrie Millbank is popular. People know who she is and I'm sure they're curious about why she does what she does and why she would even bother devoting her time to a hockey web show when I'm sure she would make more money posing for Victoria Secret or something.

The plight of the female fan and female blogger to be taken seriously is well known and has been talked about at great lengths already. I suppose there are still ways to go, but I dare say that the landscape has changed since I first started blogging nearly three (!) years ago. We're not such a novelty anymore and I think we've proven that we can do it just as well as the boys but we shouldn't need their acknowledgment to feel like we've accomplished something.

Or maybe there's just something I'm not getting about all of this. Just my $0.02.

(We know return you to your regular scheduled programming of absolute silence for another month).

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