Dr. Stephen Hawking, Athlete of the Year!

Up is down, out is in, white is black and bad is good. A prominent women’s magazine has decided that Caitlyn Jenner is Woman of the Year.  This even after Germaine Greer announced that Caitlyn was not a woman and never would be, damned Y chromosome. In sports, when your team is not up to snuff a disreputable coach will recruit a “ringer”, you know the 25 year old to play on the little league team.  Or the Russian woman’s track and field star whose balls hang lower than well, Caitlyn Jenner’s.

I find it ironic that champions of womanhood had to settle for a sixty year old man as representative of the best their sex has to offer.  It’s kind of like offering up Hillary as an honest and trustworthy politician.

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There is a way to lessen the ridicule, so richly reserved.  Mount an effort to nominate Dr. Stephen Hawking as “athlete of the year”. It doesn’t matter that he has never demonstrated any interest in sports. or that he is confined to a wheel chair and has almost no motor function.  As “Athlete of the Year” he is the perfect foil for Caitlyn Jenner as “Woman of the Year”.