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If you can name more famous female athletes than famous male athletes you are anomaly. You probably also don't watch television or read the newspaper. A lot of this is probably due to the patriarchal trend in recent history. Who am I kidding? In almost all history. Since Elizabeth Cady Stanton went to a tea party in 1848 women have been trying to equalize this kind of thing.
So it is really needless to say that when I was working on a post about the greatest female athlete of all time I was shocked and disgusted that when I did a search for the greatest player in the history of the WNBA my search engine asked me if I wasn't confused and meant to search for the greatest player in the NBA.
Then I made the mistake of searching for a picture of IndyCar driver Danica Patrick. WOW. I thought I could find a picture of her in her racing suit (I'm sure there is a technical term for that) but it was much, much easier to find a picture of her in a bikini. I was so mortified that I wrote a whole post about it over on Draft Day Suit. Don't even get me started on Anna Kournikova.
Look, I think there is value in a woman embracing her sexuality, but it is very difficult for me to take an athlete seriously when she is doing this or this or this.
I suppose it is partially natural. These women athletes are in great shape. They spend a lot of time training and their bodies look great. I'm sure that all the magazines and websites are clamoring for slutty pictures of them to sell more ads. I'm sure they get paid pretty well for the photos too, but how are we going to fix the problem of people taking women's sports (maybe not tennis, but certainly basketball and golf) seriously.
Don't ya wish your girlfriend was smart like me?
Contributing Editor Sarah also blogs at Sarah and the Goon Squad and Draft Day Suit.
