As a female sports blogger, there can be challenges. While this idea that men are cavemen inherently born with an understanding of sports has surely progressed over the years, you still get the occasional guy who thinks that, because we don’t have “the equipment,” we can’t possibly understand sports, particularly football. I’m lucky in that Jamie Plunkett (my Editor) isn’t of that mindset at all. Of course, Melissa Triebwasser (my other Editor) helps keep him in check, too.
But as of a couple years ago, the challenges of being a female sports writer, and even a female sports fan in general, changed drastically.