Originally Posted by fred_79f250

Let me preface my remarks by putting them in context:

There are women's clubs for exercising, women's clubs for investing, women's clubs for business professionals, networking, mentoring, travel, women's social clubs, and on and on. There are television stations designed specifically for and marketed specifically to, women.

They all exist because it's generally accepted that many women like to do these things amongst themselves, in a women-only environment, where they can just be women without having to worry about what the men think. And saying so doesn't seem to bother these women, nor anyone else.

There are very few places left men can do anything in an all-male environment. Men's clubs were made too politically incorrect to survive. The white collar work place is a feminized disaster. The media have swallowed the marketing industry's fallacy that women control or influence 80% of consumer spending and so are concentrating on pleasing them (why do you think most TV dads are imbeciles?). All that's left are a few blue-collar workplaces, sports, wrench-turning, and ****.

Getting women into racing won't bring anything to the sport. The cars won't go any faster or turn any better. Once a couple of cuties have broken in, then the butt ugly ones who can actually drive will follow and the eye-candy factor will be lost. And all you'll have left is another men's space lost to advertisers that want to sell feminine products to the growing female race watcher market, and increased politically-correct pressure not to have anything even remotely ressembling old-fashioned content that appeals to men with cute girls, lest it offend the new market.

Danica Patrick isn't just happening on its own. She's not the top female driver that's emerged from a huge grass-roots pool of women drivers slogging it out in the little leagues. She's the product of a concerted effort to get women in racing. Why? So they can enlarge their audience by showing a female face in the field and sell more advertising to female oriented advertisers. She's the spearhead of a concerted effort to feminize yet another male bastion.

For those reasons, I think a Patrick win is just about the worst thing that could possibly happen to racing.

Originally Posted by fred_79f250

She's the spearhead of a concerted effort to feminize yet another male bastion.