Roller girls

So here I am posting again, although it's not like anybody else is reading this, so it really is like writing in my own personal journal.

Although I don't care for reality TV as a rule (I get enough reality in my own life, thank you very much), I happened to watch a bit of a new show called Rollergirls the other night, which is about women in roller derby. I'm not exactly sure what roller derby is, but it appeared to be a bunch of women skating really fast while trying to knock the crap out of each other. Anyway, what struck me about the show is how different these women are from me. And in a weird way, I was sort of jealous. I mean, I can barely give someone a dirty look and here these women are KNOCKING EACH OTHER DOWN. On skates. Not that I want to go clothesline the other moms at school or anything, but what would it feel like to actually have that capacity? I mean, I can't even open a jar of tomato sauce without assistance. And the way they looked--pink hair, tattoos, piercings. What would it be like to be like to look and dress however you wanted, society's norms be damned? I'll never know, of course, since even the thought of wearing white shoes after labor day makes me break out in chills, but it is fun to wonder.