Compton and I were commiserating this morning over how tricky it is to navigate the role of female athlete. The main goal, of course, is to be fast. But then there's the hot factor to deal with too. Really, as a female athlete, you have to be at least kinda fast and kinda hot. Because if you're only fast, then you get perceived as unfeminine and slightly socially deviant. On the other hand, if you're only hot then you fall into the objectified female hole. Basically there's a lot of pressure on women in this society to be good at something and be hot. Sometimes I don't think guys have to achieve such high standards in a the same variety of areas, but they probably do & I just don't see it as clearly. hmm.

Kuzzy spurred this thought process by accusing me of wearing lipstick this morning. I replied that I had tinted lip gloss. It was the burt's bees skinny tube of colored lip stuff. I don't know, is that lipstick? maybe I shouldn't have tried to defend myself.