FOUL!! Wait . . .TWO FOULS!!!

Now, I'm not a huge fan of Danica Patrick, but I felt it was time to say something about all these so called "issues" she seems to have. It seems a day doesn't go by that the media isn't showing her stomping off because she lost, or getting into it with this driver or that one. Recently, it was fellow woman driver, Milka Duno. Cries of cat fight aside, I find this whole thing ridiculous. People only care because she is a woman. Tony Stewart has been in slap fights with damn near everyone in racing, but he's not given heat for it. His fat ass gets a pass because of one reason, and one reason only. A dong.

The double standard in sports is as important as the hyperbole and the stats put together. If women's sports were ever truly legitimized, then we might have to start to feel icky about putting them on magazine covers in bikinis. Lord knows it would be icky if it were Tiger Woods. But no one seems to mind when it's Natalie Gulbis. Golf Magazine had a poll to find the Top 10 golf babes. Something tells me Rocco Mediate wasn't on that list. Roger Federer never graced the cover of SI clutching a pillow, but Anna Kornakova sure did.

If women's sports were taken seriously we'd have to stop thinking about them in terms of vaginas and start thinking about them in terms of how good they are at their game. Without the means to objectify them and make them something other than real athletes, nobody knows how to talk about it. Sure, she can play, but she looks like a dyke. Sure, she can play, but she couldn't ever be as good as a man.

The latest in the long line of bullshit is the fight that took place between the LA Sparks and the Detroit Shock. God forbid women get pissed off and show it just like men. Maybe it was because Candice Parker didn't jump into the crowd or choke out her coach. Maybe that is why men don't seem to get it. For whatever the reason, people are shocked by the fact that in women's team sports, emotions can run just as high as in men's.

I think it is a great first step. That's right, get into it ladies. Stop acting like you are trying to win a beauty contest. Fuck being a roll model. Girls need to see that defending yourself and a teammate is a good thing. Not just something women do because it's fun for guys to watch. I say fight on sisters. Fight because you want to, and if someone makes that fucking cat noise at you, kick him in the nuts!