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You Go Girl!!!
May 13, 2008 | 11:23 AM
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I found this story on the wires this morning and found myself wanting to do something to challenge a stereotype (and/or drink a beer)! 

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Don't call this brewmaster, "Mister." Tonya Cornett is the first woman to win the brewmaster award at the World Beer Cup sponsored by the Brewers Association. She says she lost her voice so she couldn't scream, but the tears were flowing. Cornett is a brewer at Oregon's Bend Brewing Company. She says she still runs into the stereotype of a brewmaster being a bearded guy. She adds at a recent trade show no one would take her seriously. But Cornett hopes her brewmaster award will inspire more young women to think of beer-making as a career.

So if you could do one thing that is traditionally done by the opposite sex... what would it be?

 

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Starrman1 read my blog view my photos
May 13, 2008 | 1:08 PM

Grow some really nice hooters. You asked!!

Sorry, could not resist. I actually do not think that women do things any better than men and vice-versa. The individual is the one that makes the choice of what they enjoy and pursue to do. And if you really enjoy something, you will get really good at it.
BigSmooov read my blog
May 13, 2008 | 1:11 PM

As a man, if I can enjoy one perk that a woman has it would be...

...going out with someone KNOWING they will pay for my every expense! LoL
cort1963 read my blog
May 13, 2008 | 5:21 PM

Starrman 1; Do you really believe that Anika Sorenstam can compete with Tiger Woods? Of course there are physical inequities between the sexes! That's why we celebrate the differences!

Now, Holly, if I could invade a typically female institution (in my imagination) it would have to be SECRETARY. Where else can you impose the boss's authority without the experience, education or position? That said, secretaries perform an invaluable service to a corporate institution, however, they can sometimes be overwhelming in their arrogance!
bootsykowan read my blog view my photos
May 14, 2008 | 4:14 AM

Considering that women used to hate beer, this is really a role model. Beer is a great medical aid. It's just grain juice when you think about it. I settled on Killigan's Irish Red myself. Until Adams created that Winter brew. So now that it's summertime, back to Killigan's. I'll never forget one visit to the Smithsonian when at the African tribe window, an elementary scoutmaster was reading the signs which said that African babies drank beer. He added, "Of course we don't do that in the USA. Only in Africa."
mjb07
May 14, 2008 | 10:55 AM

cort1963, I'm trying really, really hard not to respond to your comments.
bootsykowan read my blog view my photos
May 14, 2008 | 11:06 AM

Well, it's quite simple. Nurses and secretaries used to be males. When females got equal opportunity the males and secretaries departed. Hmmm, hmmm. The bartenders, they are achanging. Pretty soon the males will not have to work at all :0 In fact, all stage females were males. Brain stop it, it's hurting.
caffeinated-cow read my blog
May 14, 2008 | 2:58 PM

Actually women brewers is nothing new. During the Middle Ages and the Enlightment, there were women who not only brewed but owned their own brew houses. So, while this might seem like an "accomplishment" it isn't.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a female "accomplishment" yadda yadda yadda, but while we are celebrating this woman, don't disrespect those women of the past who were the true pioneers of womens rights by ignoring them completely.
Honest1inVA
May 14, 2008 | 4:14 PM

Be able to work at a job requiring no college degree for 4-6 hours a day and make $50.00 an hour like these alcoholic, druggie construction workers do. Then, come home and have someone there with dinner waiting, laundry done and housework done.
Who says women have equal rights?
cort1963 read my blog
May 14, 2008 | 10:41 PM

mjb07; Who cares???? This is an, allegedly free country, you can say what you wish so long as it's not libelous, i.e., inaccurate slander! Go ahead, take your best shot!
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Holly_Morris

Emmy award winning anchor/reporter Holly Morris started with WTTG in December of 1998. Her specialty is "live" TV, which you can see her doing on FOX 5 Morning News. Each weekday morning, Holly reports and often interacts live from somewhere in the community either covering a breaking news story, previewing an event, or learning more about all that is available in and around the greater Washington area. Holly can also be seen anchoring FOX 5 News at Noon. Holly's work has earned her 4 regional Emmys, three of which were for "Best Live Reporting". She also has a regional Edward R. Murrow award. Prior to her career at WTTG-TV, Holly was an anchor/reporter at WKYT-TV in Lexington, Kentucky. There she won three regional Emmy's including one for best anchor and one for best feature reporter. If Holly ever gets tired of the early morning wake-up calls for FOX 5 Morning News, she can always fall back on the profession of engineering. In 1993, she graduated from Duke University with a degree in civil and environmental engineering. Holly is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio.

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