The Growth of The World's Most Popular Sport

While sitting through several wasted hours with the winter storm this weekend an interesting story came into my sights. It involves the positive reaction that Danica Patrick has received in the sport of auto racing. Indy driver Danica Patrick recently signed a deal with JR Motor sports to race a shortened schedule for the NASCAR Nationwide series or the minor league of NASCAR. What amazes me is the amount of acclaim that Patrick has received. Not only has Patrick's performance been praised by different sources, but she has also been good for the sport with ratings rising 59 percent in her debut. Patrick is the first female driver in a male dominated sport to have this kind of support and promise. In her Nationwide debut, Danica was involved in a 12 car accident and was unable to finish, but Patrick was praised for her ability to move through the pack while continuously talk to her crew and make changes to her car. NASCAR has never truly had a high profile female driver like Danica and she is like a breath of fresh air to an ever changing sport. This to me seems like another way that society can truly change for the better.

Valentines Day

It seemed very funny to me that while we have grown to become an "equal" society there are some areas that don't seem that way. While watching a slew of different channels on TV, I saw several different Valentines day commercials and they all seemed the same. They all started with this cheesy music and then had some heartfelt story in which a man pulls a fake out and gives his wife/girlfriend a gag gift and then surprises her with amazing jewelry. There was also another in which a women finds her husband/boyfriend in an aisle of Valentines day gifts. She walks by and says thats a good choice and precedes to keep walking. I thought that this was very weird that there are not more commercials that portray a women giving her husband/boyfriend a gift or even a man giving his husband/boyfriend a gift or a women giving her wife/girlfriend a gift. We have essentially become a society where everything should be ok to talk about or show on TV. I know of several couples in which these traditional Valentines day morals will not apply, so that is my question why do these old life morals still apply to commercials. After doing a search through You Tube i did find this video

How we as people have been conditioned?

As i was thinking of a possible idea for a post an idea crossed my mind while watching television. I was watching the television show Chuck and there was a scene where a female spy had to seduce a man to find out information. While watching the show, i saw a commercial for another spy show called Archer and the episode was about the male spy seducing another man for information. What amazed me was my natural reaction to both incidents. The female seducing the male was like nothing, like something you would see everyday. The male seducing another male seemed very foreign and weird. This amazed me because it shows how we have been conditioned by society to believe that only a women can seduce a man or the other way around, but yet with the way we have grown as a society, it seems like a man seducing a man shouldn't be seen as something out of the ordinary.