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Brian ([personal profile] memnus) wrote2008-04-20 07:20 am
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(written last night) How many feminist blogs will be up in odds about this?

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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