On FS1’s Garbage Time Wednesday night, Katie Nolan hilariously flipped gender roles on its head by promoting “Men’s Night at the Ballpark” as a means to spoof various ladies’ nights that some sports teams could occasionally do.
Activities included “burping contests” and “all you can eat wings” washed down with an “IPA no one has ever heard of.” The skit also included Nolan explaining the rules of baseball to men in “language they could understand.”
With all the ladies’ nights in sports, @katienolan created a men’s night.https://t.co/zaaYAeiwxm
— Garbage Time (@GarbageTime) August 4, 2016
This is definitely a take on some sports teams when they have “Ladies’ Night” as a means of marketing toward women which let’s face it, can be pretty condescending toward women. Because most of these promotions either A) Assume women wouldn’t want to be there unless there was a “Ladies’ Night.” B) Assume women have no clue about what is happening on the field and need other things in order to have a good time. And/or C) Assume women wouldn’t understand how the sport is played if it was explained to them the same way it would be explained to a man.
In many cases, I’m sure sports teams teams aren’t intentionally trying to be insensitive toward women by having “Ladies’ Night,” they’re really trying to find ways to market to new fans and get them to the ballpark in various ways. But flipping the script and having something like that for men really shows just how absurd the promotion can be.
