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I really wasn't expecting to be offended as a feminist by reading an article about Zenyatta the race horse in the NYT... but this really offends me:
"For the second year in a row, she [referring to Zenyatta, the horse] finished second in voting for the Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year, this time to the gold medal skier Lindsey Vonn."
Oh for pete's sake. They couldn't come up with a human female athlete for second place? Would this ever happen in their voting for a male athlete? Would a horse even be allowed on the ballot for Male Athlete of the Year?
Soon, I hope, women will be breaking into male pro-sports and things will become more co-ed (I think baseball is close to having this happen). I hope at that point more women athletes will have enough notoriety that the AP can stick to humans when they vote for these awards (however pointless awards like that may be in the grand scheme).
Now that I'm good and irritated, I believe I will take a turn about the yard since the temperature is supposedly over 40 degrees and get back to grading after that.
"For the second year in a row, she [referring to Zenyatta, the horse] finished second in voting for the Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year, this time to the gold medal skier Lindsey Vonn."
Oh for pete's sake. They couldn't come up with a human female athlete for second place? Would this ever happen in their voting for a male athlete? Would a horse even be allowed on the ballot for Male Athlete of the Year?
Soon, I hope, women will be breaking into male pro-sports and things will become more co-ed (I think baseball is close to having this happen). I hope at that point more women athletes will have enough notoriety that the AP can stick to humans when they vote for these awards (however pointless awards like that may be in the grand scheme).
Now that I'm good and irritated, I believe I will take a turn about the yard since the temperature is supposedly over 40 degrees and get back to grading after that.
