[quote=Russell]Sorry to the football fans, but aren’t a large percentage of the 60,000 or so men who go to football games every week groupies of a sort? How about a boy or a man wearing an extremely popular players shirt and number? What is up with that? Does anyone ever wear a bench warmer’s number?Tiger doesn’t command a mulit-billion dollar brand because of women, it is because of men.[/quote]
Let’s get back to the definition of groupie (via wikipedia): A groupie “is a person who seeks sexual and/or emotional intimacy with a celebrity or other authority figure.”
In my post above, I should have distinguished between SEX-focused groupies and just run-of-the-mill groupies. That was lazy on my part. I’ll agree with you that if you remove the sexual element, plenty of guys act like groupies with respect to their favorite athletes/teams. Which I find more than a little bizarre. But, I digress.
However… you’re not going to find too many guys who will offer themselves sexually to female celebrities just because they’re celebrities. It’s not that they don’t exist, but their numbers are de minimis in comparison to the number of females who will do the same for male celebrities. Thus, the SEX groupie is overwhelmingly a female phenomenon.
