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...car racing is to be derided in Salon circles as the sport of beer-swilling redneck hicks like the loathed "NASCAR dad" demographic-- but when Danica Patrick wins something, oh now car racing has a great deal of nobility to it all of a sudden.
Kind of like how golf was a laughable waste of time which we made fun of until Michelle Wie came-along with her mediocre performance and managed to avoid coming-in dead last in a few major tournaments, thus transforming golf into a Very Important Sport.
Kind of like how Broadsheet feminists hate large corporations until a female CEO comes along. They hate the military until a female general comes along. They hate religion until a female bishop comes along. The logic around here doesn't go beyond looking at the crotch, does it?
