Cross-posted at Hoyden About Town.
Imagine the disappointment. You’re a female athlete, talented enough to have turned professional a couple of years ago, and you’re also a gorgeous model – you should be everywhere, you should be raking in the dollars, but much as you love your sport it is kinda pulling you down.. its reputation isn’t as sexy as you are.
You’re Anna Rawson and you play golf and damn it, you expect the sisterhood to understand your dilemma because it isn’t fair, men’s golf gets all the attention and all the money. Why is that?
“The tour has got so much better with so many young stars and great players,” Rawson told the radio station in an interview arranged by her father Jim.
“But the mentality unfortunately amongst the media and the industry hasn’t changed.
“They still think we’re at 25 years ago when the tour was full of, you know, a lot of dykes and unattractive females nobody wanted to watch.“
In this misogynistic world the only experience to rival the powerlessness of being outside the inner circle of female hotness is being inside the inner circle. You’re either fat, ugly, hairy, dykey and invisible or you’re hot but-not-as-hot-as-her-and-you-could-use-some-bigger-tits-smaller-thighs-and-we-would-do-you-but-only-from-behind-and-what-an-attention-seeking-slut. But then of course the patriarchy has a special treat for Rawson, if she is lucky enough to grow old (or anything else vaguely unacceptable) she gets to experience both.
For Rawson’s apology that wasn’t, read the full article.
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And yet, the all-dyke football team I used to know were pretty popular with the boys*. 🙂
But seriously, you may be being unfair here. When was the last time you heard a male sports star saying something intelligent (OK, barring Glenn McGrath, who was blessed with both common sense and an amazing wife)?
Nice to know that some women still blame other women for the lopsidedness of this world. And I just don’t think I can even contemplate her assumption that attractive women playing golf was what was required to make it popular, it make my head all splody.
*Maybe the boys I knew were not entirely representative, but still…
I soooo missed out on the sporty part of the dyke gene.
But then, I have been known to wear heels so i guess men would be happy to watch me play golf, regardless.
Mikhela – Hahaha. Thinking about it not a single one of my close dyke friends has had the sporty gene but then not having that gene myself I’ve probably been given a wide berth by the sporty dyke gang, not to mention the sporty spice straight gang.