... Danica Patrick and Ronda Rousey and Lauren Silberman, oh my!
I wish I had a side business cleaning up the shards of glass from the ceilings being broken all around, 'cause I'd be raking in the dough of late, thanks to these female athletes.
And it's not the novelty of it (as Franco's "drivers and Danica" ill-spoken syllogism implies), but the fact that we're moving toward a place where it's non-novelty news. (I mean, after all, if women can serve in combat zones, surely they can have professional sports careers in sports of their choosing.)
And best of luck to you tomorrow, Lauren -- or maybe not so much "luck", but maybe "best show of your skill" is the more appropriate exhortation. I think it's about damn time that the classically American phrase "you can be whatever you want to be*" starts to be a phrase without all of the asterisks that our culture's burdened it with -- so long as you *are the "approved" gender, *have the "approved" skin color, *come from the "approved" social class, *love the "approved" persons, *look and act like those "approvers" who make the decisions, *say the "approved" things, etc. etc. etc. ...
Deviate from the norm. Break the mold. Confound expectations.
Women actively serving in combat zones in the military. Check. Women participating in sports of their choosing. Check. Women in the chief role in the White House? I'm thinking 2016 ...
GO DANICA GO!:
http://espn.go.com/racing/nascar/cup/story/_/id/9003264/danica-patrick-reflects-meaning-leading-two-500s
GO RONDA GO!:
http://www.sportsgrid.com/video/ronda-rousey-ufc-first-womens-match/
GO LAUREN GO!:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/mar/02/lauren-silberman-female-kicker-nfl
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