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I was in a conversation with a new(er) face the other day, and he asked me something along the lines of how I like chick movies or romantic comedies or something like that. The point of that part of the conversation was to feel-out-slash-indulge the emotive chickness level.  I always fail these tests, miserably. 

I think I said something about romantic comedies being girl-porn and how sports were far more likely to get me choked up.  I was met with a look of disgust, which honestly puzzled me.  This was followed by a comment about not being 'girly' enough and my love of athletics being 'off-putting'.  Obviously, this interaction demonstrated a lack of future potential, but being the social anthropologist I fancy myself to be, I decided to do a little mini clinical study on this particular individual to find out why a girl who likes sports is off-putting.  

Granted, I like sports more than even the average girl who likes sports.  However I have a lot of other girl friends who are like minded, so I sort of feel like the way I am is normal thing.  I mean, 'normal' is just whatever you're used to anyway, right?  Add to that, I have all brothers and am the oldest.  I also had practice of some sort every day from the age of 2 to 33.  Then I broke my foot and a whole other mess of things happened, but that's not the point.  The point is, none of these things make me any less feminine and I don't feel the need to defend my femininity by pointing out all the girly shit I do.  Wearing make up is not me compensating for playing sports.  

I have to wonder, though, what is so off-putting?  Is that another word for intimidating?  I'm not for everybody and I'm perfectly okay with that, but I do like to understand why a man who presents as relatively sporty himself, would be put off by his sporty, double-x chromosomed counterpart.  It's a mystery.  I suppose I should go take off these 4" heels and go for a run, now.  Later.