Tag Archive | Danica Patrick
Afternoon Links
Happy International Women’s Day! Here are some items we’ve been enjoying recently: Feministing on the NYT profile of boxer Quanitta Underwood, and how it sensationalized her history of sexual assault. A Blog of Their Own on the Baseball Boyfriend game, and on its creators. And finally, Stephen Colbert on Danica Patrick: The Colbert Report Mon [...]
Danica Patrick and Double Standards
Now I’m going to talk about something I know a lot about, and something I know nothing about: gender-based double standards and car racing. The two have collided head on (get it?) this week, as professional race car driver Danica Patrick competed for the first time in the Daytona 500. By all accounts, she did not fare [...]
