(written last night) How many feminist blogs will be up in odds about this?

[memnus]

Apparently for the first time ever a woman has won an Indycar race. (I know this because the blinkybox says so.) The ESPN commentary is, well, confirming my suspicion that car racing would be a sexist sport. "Look at that trophy! I bet they won't expect *her* to lift it up older her shoulders!" Repeated comments about "girls" or "females" in the sport ... nothing about "women". "Just think -- she'll be a MOM someday! What a thing you could tell your children!"

Yeah, it's historic, but the comments. They're making *me* twitch.

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[quartzpebble.livejournal.com]

"Female" as a noun for people makes me twitch in general. Especially when the people using it would never think of referring to a "male."

[spiffystuff.livejournal.com]

Got any links? I can try to spread it to a few feminist bloggers ;)

The online articles I found on a cursory google search seemed devoid of this commentary.

[memnus.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0xw6qoe6zw seems to be the commentary I was listening to, starting out about 3:40. Gets particularly special about 7 minutes when they interview her husband. Cuts out before some of the other comments that twitched me.