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By colleen • 15 years ago

Jennie Finch: The Real American Role Model

I will admit it:  I have a girl crush on Jennie Finch. 

When I was growing up, softball was not the phenom of a sport that it is now.  It was the best alternative when our mothers decided that we were too old and too "ladylike" to play Little League (which usually happened sometime between 7 and 12 years old).  When I was little, it wasn’t an Olympic sport, but I loved it anyway.  Softball was a huge staple in my life and I am grateful for all the lessons I learned from it. 

Enter 1996 Summer Olympics:  Here comes softball!  Team USA dominates and softball explodes.  It’s on ESPN.  The College World Series are televised.  Lisa Fernandez and Dottie Henson and Michelle Smith are recognizable names that the softball girls aspire to be.

Enter Jennie Finch.  A dominate pitcher from the University of Arizona and Olympic gold medalist, the most interesting thing about her becomes the fact that shes pretty.  She’s voted the "Hottest Female Athlete", ousting Anna Kournakova (who, inarguably, has a lesser professional career).  Finch took the opposite route.  Instead of becoming a Model (with a capital "M"), she honed her skills and became a better player.

I found this article on the Olympic website.  One of my favorite parts was Finch’s response when she got the offer to pose for PLAYBOY:
By colleen • 15 years ago

Feminism and the “Adult” Cartoon

I’m 24 and I still get a kick out of watching cartoons. Most of all, I love the “adult” cartoons. There were four that I watched fairly religiously, “The Simpsons”, “South Park”, “Family Guy”, and “American Dad”. I thought that they were all equally smart and funny in the beginning, but then I began to notice a sharp contrast between the four… mainly in regards to “The Simsons” and “South Park” v. the Seth Macfarlane creations “American Dad” and “Family Guy”. The more I watched, the more I noticed how degrading the Seth Macfarlane creations really are to women. I know these cartoons have other issues besides just how they relate to women, but for ...

I’m 24 and I still get a kick out of watching cartoons. Most of all, I love the “adult” cartoons. There were four that I watched fairly religiously, “The Simpsons”, “South Park”, “Family Guy”, and ...
By colleen • 15 years ago

Obama’s 10-year old is “too grown”?

I know that the remarks of Sandra Rose have been analyzed and talked about a lot this week (and it’s only Thursday!), but I felt like I had to throw in my 2 cents…

"Malia does not conduct herself like any 10-year-old I’ve ever met. Malia tells Menounos that she has dibs on one of the bedrooms in the White House when (not if) her daddy wins the presidency. Miss Malia knows how she’s going to decorate her room and everything."

She’s 10!  If my dad was running for president, I’d think that he was going to win too (regardless of all the politics surrounding it–it’s the "he’s my daddy, he’s a superhero!" idea that a little kid gets).

I think that ...

I know that the remarks of Sandra Rose have been analyzed and talked about a lot this week (and it’s only Thursday!), but I felt like I had to throw in my 2 cents…

"Malia does not ...