Whip it Good!: My alter ego

Maine Roller Derby's Killer Quick whips up a pounding dose of all things derby.

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June 20, 2008

My alter ego

I've never subscribed to the alter ego. I'm me and nothing will change that.

Most press coverage about roller derby is the teacher-by-day-hellion-by-night type crap. And the alter ego is played up heavily with interviews about how a woman creates a derby handle and becomes some sort of crazed, violent, machete-chopping berzerker.

In these interviews, many of the skaters refer to themselves in the third person. "Berzerker Biotch is tough and aggressive and won't take anybody's sh*t, but I am mostly a quiet office worker... Sometimes Bezerker Biotch comes out a work and I'm all 'Oh no he didn't.' " And so on.

Maybe other leagues really are like that, but I don't know anyone in MRD that would say anything remotely close to that word vomit. I'm equally aggressive and berzerking without my handle or helmet. I don't turn into a kitten when the skates come off. My kitteny side is always there, just somewhere underneath the menacing glares.

While ho-humming over USA Today's coverage of roller derby - which should have appeared in the sports section, not lifestyle - I realized that I DO, in fact, have a roller derby alter ego. Or rather roller derby has brought out a side of me I hadn't met.

As a member of the board of directors of Maine Roller Derby, I've found that I am a business woman who tirelessly and passionately works for something I believe in, without pay. I spend most of my days thinking about roller derby, not just how to improve my game or work with my team, but how to culminate the business.

I am driven. I am an athlete. I can separate my love for my friends to make decisions that help grow a business. I love exercising, sweating and pushing myself physically. I excel under stress.

And you know what? These qualities don't just belong to Punchy O'Guts - yes, I just wrote in third person, but only to humor myself - these qualities are part of me. And I don't need a roller derby handle to display them.

Posted by Punchy O'Guts at 12:34 PM

Comments

YES. YES. YES. Truer words have never been written. Hot damn. Amen. THAT'S the perspective needs to get out there.

Posted by Killer Quick
June 23, 2008 03:33 PM

I concur, I concur! I always cringe with the whole 'alter ego' bit. There's no 'by day... by night'- we are athletes & business women, madly in love with an aggressive sport- 24hours a day, 7 days a week.
Thank you Punchy!

Posted by Olive Spankins
June 23, 2008 10:51 PM

Roxxy agrees, roxxy likes this blog, roxxy has to let Lea get back to her desk job now!!

Posted by roxxy retribution
June 24, 2008 08:08 AM

"ALTER EGO" none for me... I am MARY JANE PAIN TRAIN and work damn hard to be the best I can be in and out of Derby...This is a way of life not an alternate life.. well not to me..

Posted by Mary Jane Pain Train
June 24, 2008 09:03 AM

My skate name is not far from my birth name and is a nickname that I had for over a decade before joining derby. Thank you for bringing this important subject to light. The whole alter-ego bit only further perpetuates the notion that women are suppose to act in certain manner and/or that those bad girls who play Roller Derby are merely fulfilling some titillating fantasy. That's not why I play the sport. That's not why I exist.

Posted by Breezey
June 24, 2008 05:06 PM

I don't know about an alter ego, but roller derby has taught me the self discipline I was seeking when I thought I might join the military over a decade ago. Needless to say, I would never have made it in the army, but I have excelled beyond my own expectations despite using another name as part of this incredible sport.

Posted by Maulie MacKill'em
June 25, 2008 09:17 AM

I don't know. Nico would put a skate in her cheating ex-boyfriends' face. Genéa won't let her. Maybe it's not an alter ego, per se, but a side of me I tame a little to get along in society. Or to curb assault charges.

Posted by Nico Noir
June 26, 2008 01:01 PM

so...uh... is Roller Girl gonna join the team..huh huh....

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