football's back, but it's not like i need to worry my pretty little head about it

so i was flipping through the september issue of family circle the other night when i came across this gem:

"Game Plan
Football season kicks off this month, but that doesn't mean you have to be glued to the TV screen. Let the guys get their game on while you organize a girlfriend get-together to celebrate National Rum Punch Day (September 20). Think of it as the BFF Bowl."

um, WHAT?

so of course i had to take to twitter to vent some of my outrage:

"football season kicks off (in sept.), but that doesn't mean you have to be glued to the screen." actually, that's exactly what it means.
— eulalia (@queeneulalia) August 1, 2013

that same snippet says to let the guys get their game on while i organize a girlfriend get-together for national rum punch day on 9/20.
— eulalia (@queeneulalia) August 1, 2013

um, september 20 is on a friday, so unless the guys in question are watching high-school football, this is all moot and also kinda sexist.
— eulalia (@queeneulalia) August 1, 2013

@FamilyCircleMag also, the blurb on p. 20 of the september issue about national rum punch day? kinda sexist.
— eulalia (@queeneulalia) August 1, 2013

no response from family circle as of this writing. i mean, honestly. y'all know i love me some football, so much so that i'm typing this while the hall of fame game is on in the background even though i don't care about either team (#anyonebutdallas notwithstanding). and i definitely love football more than i love rum, which isn't saying much b/c i'm not that big of a rum fan, honestly, and if i were, i'd just get some of my fellow football-loving girlfriends together for a football and rum punch party b/c omg we're women and we like football and the next thing you know cats and dogs will be living together and down will be up and up will be sideways.

it's 2013, for fuck's sake. i have to hope that at least one family circle staffer read that copy and thought "hm, that's a little bit sexist," but decided not to rock the boat for whatever reason(s). i mean, it's bad enough that the nfl is trying to alienate its female fan base by restricting the size of bags that can be brought into stadiums, but now i need to give up on watching football altogether and go have a hen party so the guys aren't disturbed during that game? allow me to quote from "the wire" here:
 

 my name is eulalia, i'm a woman, and i like football. fuck you and anyone else who thinks that's impossible.