{"id":103,"date":"2007-05-27T21:01:47","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T21:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christinagonzalez.wordpress.com\/2007\/05\/27\/ugh-well-at-least-theyre-honest-about-treating-women-like-pieces-of-meat\/"},"modified":"2007-05-27T21:01:47","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T21:01:47","slug":"ugh-well-at-least-theyre-honest-about-treating-women-like-pieces-of-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/27\/ugh-well-at-least-theyre-honest-about-treating-women-like-pieces-of-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugh, Well, at least they’re honest about treating women like pieces of meat."},"content":{"rendered":"

This piece of trash was even written by a woman:<\/p>\n

\n
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HOT CURVES AT INDY 500<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

\nMay 27, 2007 — Gentlemen, stop your engines – before they overheat. <\/p>\n

\nThree sexy speed demons are set to drive racing fans wild at to day's
\nIndianapolis 500 – and make history with more women behind the wheel
\nthan at any other elite- level U.S. racing event. <\/p>\n

Danica
\nPatrick, Sarah Fisher and Milka Duno will heat up the Speedway, with
\nPatrick, 25, in par ticular having a shot at crossing the finish line
\nfirst. <\/p>\n

The Wisconsin beauty bolted David Letterman's Rahal
\nLetterman team for Andretti Green Racing. "For the first time, I'm
\nhaving fun with my teammates," she says. <\/p>\n

Blonde bombshell
\nFisher, 26, who in 2000 became one of the youngest drivers to ever race
\nin the 500, will be in the 21st position, and Duno, 35, is battling
\nback from a May 11 crash.<\/p>\n

link<\/a><\/p>\n

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These women are making history and what is their record-breaking feat reduced to? A bunch of adjectives about their physical attractiveness. There's really only one sports-related sentence fragment in there that doesn't sound like it was written by someone covering a sorority party. Can you spot it? The three women are there to compete, and nobody writes stories about any of the male drivers in such a demeaning, body-focused way. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this isn't anything new. It's happened throughout history as women steadily gained footholds in previously male-dominated situations. We're always held to a different standard. The important thing is to note their achievements, and to not be discouraged because a reporter writes a story about them in a titillating style. At least there are other pieces that cover them in a much more respectful way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This piece of trash was even written by a woman: HOT CURVES AT INDY 500 May 27, 2007 — Gentlemen, stop your engines – before they overheat. Three sexy speed demons are set to drive racing fans wild at to day's Indianapolis 500 – and make history with more women behind the wheel than at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[187,188,189,27],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ny-post","tag-racing","tag-sexism","tag-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nVuU-1F","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}