For better or for worse, everything we think about her is shaped by the fact that she's a woman.
Does the media pay special attention to her because she's a woman? Yes.
Has she advanced as far as she has because she's an attractive woman? Absolutely. But you think that tool Dale Jr. got to where he is on his skills alone?
Do we call her a B-word for outbursts for which we'd cut a male driver some slack? Yep.
Is her behavior childish, petulant, and unsportsmanlike? Pretty darn often.
Does Indy coddle her and enable, maybe encourage, her antics because it brings them ratings? Yep. I really have the feeling that security protected her in that pit the way they wouldn't have protected a male driver from himself. They let her stomp far enough over to Briscoe's pit that the press got fantastic photos and video, then they gently ushered her off before she did anything really untoward. Security's response was virtually scripted. A man would have made it over to the other pit and made a jerk of himself - or they would have physically pulled him back in right away.
It's great to see women break into the sport, but I want to see a woman who can excel on her own skills without needing to be marketed by manufactured drama and breasts. Give me an ugly female driver who can DRIVE.
And Sarah Fisher - don't get me started. She set her gender back 20 years by crying her freaking eyes out. There's no crying in baseball!
