Laughing Out Loud: Two horses make the list for AP’s Female Athlete of Year

by jen on December 28, 2009

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Give me a second to stop laughing over this one. Ok, I think I’m ready now. I’m going to venture a guess that some of the 158 sports editors polled in the Associated Press’s Top Female Athlete of Year vote were full of shits and giggles when they nominated race horses Zenyatta and Rachel Alexandra. Surely those editors were on a break or tossing back a few drinks when they received their surveys in the mail, so they couldn’t have taken it seriously. Perhaps the AP should specify that they were talking about human females. (Perhaps the AP thinks ladyhorses and lady humans are the same thing?)

On a serious note, 66 sports editors voted for Serena Williams as top athlete.  I think it’s a good sign that a handful of people out there know the difference between a horse and a human–hail the American educational system.  Feministing quoted UN Dispatch writer Mark Goldberg who made this rather astute point

That’s right.  We live in a world in which animals are eligable to win “Female Athlete of the Year” from one of the most important global news agencies.  That’s some shameful stuff.  And for the record, none of the male athletes of the year were anything but human. 

Feministing asked their readers to think of other women (human) athletes that could have been on the list.  I’m going to ask readers to think of some male animal athletes so that we can create a whole new list.

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