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I’m sure by now you have heard about a certain “journalist” writing about why there are so few female bloggers, and her ridiculous analogy between blogging and snowmobiling. If you didn’t read it, don’t worry, you didn’t miss anything. She compares BLOGGING to RIDING A SNOWMOBILE with regards to men and women. Don’t ask – I don’t even know, man.

I am sick of hearing, reading and generally being subjected to women who think they are entitled to some special treatment because they were born with a vagina. The war cry “We want equality!” when it pertains to something as stupid as blogging or anything else as trivial is a waste of everyone’s time. I am obviously not talking about actual important and dangerous sexism, like sexual harassment in the workplace (although might I add that women who dress like a whore to work sort of forfeit the right to cry HARASSMENT just because a male coworker looks leers at them — and I was in human resources in my previous life, so I’ve seen it happen), or sexual trafficking.

I, myself, am admittedly in a man’s world: I have 57,000 male cousins and only brothers, no sisters,I love hockey and MMA, have a gig on sports radio and attend live MMA events. The comments are nasty and the critique is harsh: either I am a slut or I am a man-hating butch. One week I am being asked if not dressing like a ringgirl means I am a lesbian and don’t want men looking at me; the next I’m being included in a “Hockey Hotties” list.

Demanding equal rights is one thing, but women are not special because they are women. People are special when they are courageous, inspiring and fearless. Women who continuously single themselves out everywhere they can because they are women are not asking to be treated the same; they are hoping for preferential treatment. I never expect preferential treatment. Have I gotten it before? Probably. For every male who tells me to get the fuck off the radio and back into the kitchen exists one who will go out of his way to open the door for me. There are polar opposites in anything.

I just believe we are past the point where it’s a big deal, and I don’t think that my estrogen should ever be a factor unless we’re talking childbirth or menstruating. I do not consider myself special. I don’t think I am worthy of your admiration. I do my own thing, I am building my reputation, I try to be respected in everything I do and I work just as hard as anyone else.

Not harder because I am a woman.

A PSA for Montreal

Hot off the presses over at Tea Party Throwdown by Boston’s very own Sarah Connors!

I bet you all thought I’d forgotten about this, didn’t you?

No, as much as I’d like to pretend that I never wore a barberpole striped Carey Price jersey during the mother of all Bruins games, the Winter Classic – I did, and I am ashamed. What I’m not ashamed of, though, is the fact that we’re still raffling this mother off. Yes, the Epic Charity Wager is still very much alive and kicking unlike the Bruins this year.

You all have until March 20th, the date of the East Meets West Habs Tweetup in Montreal, QC, at which time a winner will be selected. Raffle tickets are $5 each (and don’t worry, those of you who donated previously – I’ve got your names all written down).

This is your chance to win a Carey Price barberpole jersey for as little as a $5 contribution toward Hockey Fights Cancer!

Raffle tickets will be on sale at the tweetup! Look for the tall brunette drinking cream ale.

Tweetup is March 20 at Ye Olde Orchard pub. Details are here!

Sarah looks as glorious as Les Glorieux here

WEC 47 (World Extreme Cagefighting) is taking place tonight, March 6 at 10pm EST in Columbus, Ohio and as always, I’m posting my fight predictions.

In the video below, you’ll see my predictions for 3 fights off the main card; the rest of my predictions are below the video.

Brian Bowles over Dominick Cruz

Miguel Torres over Joseph Benavidez

Javier Vazquez over Jens Pulver

L.C. Davis over Deividas Taurosevicius

Karen Darabedyan over Bart Palaszewski

Scott Jorgensen over Chad George

Chad Mendes over Erik Koch

Danny Castillo over Anthony Pettis

Leonard Garcia over George Roop

Fredson Paixao over Courtney Buck

Ricardo Lamas over Bendy Casimir

I spent the day at an outdoor screening at Gare Windsor in Montréal, courtesy of Molson! This is my video recap of the day! GO TEAM CANADA!!!!

My smug face with my press pass.

Tonight,

I was lucky enough to attend MFL 2: Battleground, thanks to the guys at Ringside Report. This was only Mixed Fight League’s second event, and they drew in a huge crowd and created a lot of buzz around their fight card.

Please see below my video reaction to the event + The Fight Network’s video preview for this event.

Full results of the fights can be found here.

Fight News: MFL 2: Battleground Preview

My night at MFL 2 Battleground!

Wow, the editing SUUUUCKS but it’s my first attempt and it’s too late & I’m too tired to start over so whatever. Just watch it anyway.

Very quick MMA predictions once again… I just bought myself a new camera & toyed around with the options and stuff. The music in the background is Get Up (instrumental) by 50 Cent. It’s my go-to music to get pumped for MMA events… don’t ask why, it just is. Not sure if I like the music, might be a bit too obnoxious, but anyway. YEAH. WAR SARAH!

Oh la la. Commences the countdown to his fight on March 27. Get ready to see A LOT of GSP everywhere.

UFC 110 proved to be an amazing fight night despite having a title fight, which just proves how stacked the UFC is right now. Some amazing fights that got our hearts racing. A few random comments in the video below and the results of the fights + how I did in my predictions belower.

UFC 110 Results

Cain Velasquez defeats Antonio Rodrigo Nogueria via TKO (Strikes) Rd. 1 (metricjulie’s prediction: Velasquez)
Wanderlei Silva defeats Micheal Bisping via Unanimous Decision (metricjulie’s prediction: Silva)
Ryan Bader defeats Keith Jardine via TKO (Strikes) Rd. 3 (metricjulie’s prediction: Bader)
George Sotiropoulos defeats Joe Stevenson via Unanimous Decision (metricjulie’s prediction: Stevenson)
Mirko Cro Cop defeats Anthony Perosh via TKO (Cut; Doctors Stoppage) Rd. 3 (metricjulie’s prediction: Cro Cop)
Krzysztof Soszynski defeats Stephan Bonnar via technical knockout (cut) in Rd. 3 (metricjulie’s prediction: Soszynski)
Chris Lytle defeats Brian Foster via submission (knee bar) in Rd. 1 (metricjulie’s prediction: Lytle)
CB Dollaway defeats Goran Reljic via unanimous decision (metricjulie’s prediction: Reljic)
James Te Huna defeats Igor Pokrajac via technical knockout in Rd. 3 (metricjulie’s prediction: Pokrajac)

My extremely last-minute & rushed vlog for UFC 110 (main card fights).

Enjoy!