Surprised you didn’t work a hooker murder joke in there. Or maybe a joke about arm wrestling and hats.

Well, when a 6 foot 11, 275 lb driver wins the F1 drivers championship or a 5 foot 3 woman is the top WNBA center, maybe that equality argument won’t be so ridiculous. But that is not likely to happen.

Alanis...you may want to check your snark at the door next time, you sound very silly completely denying the impact that genetics & innately-held characteristics have on such a high level sport, as they do in any sport.

It would be interesting to see a study, but I’d be willing to wager that top level drivers have faster reflexes and multi-tasking abilities than normal people. Just like how most marathoners can oxygenate better than normal people (ie. they are “naturally doping.”)

When it comes to athletic potential, it’s considered something like 66% percent dependent on heritability (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3993978/). You can squander that potential in many ways, but if you lack it, you can’t make up for it in dedication.

When it comes to athletic potential, it’s considered something like 66% percent dependent on heritability (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3993978/). You can squander that potential in many ways, but if you lack it, you can’t make up for it in dedication.

Nico’s Claim: “I’m a firm believer that genetics are quite a big part of this... I would probably say 66 percent genetics, 33 percent nurtured...”

Alanis’s counterclaim: “But Nico, you didn’t become so good at driving in open-wheel racing’s top level because of your genetics...”

me reading the comments:

So natural talent is now too PC? You give ten 5 year-olds a soccer ball for the first time and 7 will be terrible, 2 will be good and 1 will excel. Of course hard work and practice will go a very long way to neutralize and flatten the results, but to pretend some people aren’t naturally athletic (with a lot of that…

So is this an opinion piece or journalism or what?

I also agree with him.
Even if in this day and age, political correctness wouldn’t agree.

A robot is a tool. Be smarter than the tool. If a robot comes that can do your job, learn how to use it, so that it will be your tool and will let you do a better job.

Katie, with all due respect why is this an avclub article? I’m not one of these people who bitch about the articles having more political content now but this is really not the kind of article I would ever imagine to be on this site. I’ve been coming on this site for the 4 times a day for ten years. this would be…

Katie, what the fuck? If there is anyone Ivanka DOESN’T have to explain who Kurt Cobain is, it is to old white people.

This article is surprisingly petty.

Yeah, not the point. You want to shit on her for what she is doing right now working for her asshole dad, have at it. But It’s laughable that Katie is giving someone shit for their age 14 teenage years. And from reading her mom’s book, of all things.

Hello, Pulitzer. This is the hard-hitting, important shit, right here.

Katie, if someone had written this about the Obama daughter’s teenage years, what would you have thought?

We’re supposedly at the limit of what a FMR platform can do with things like the C7 Z06, and the only way to progress further, is with RMR. There are dynamic reasons for changing the engine’s location. Yes, it will cost more. But I can’t imagine it costing as much as a new competitor like the Ford GT, for instance.

Are you really being this ignorant on purpose or are you really this lazy...even for a blogger. BATF declared it a non regulated item under the Gun Control Act and the National Firearms Act. So, President Obama (a Nobel Prize winner) was ignorant of this too...even after Newtown. Maybe he was busy listening to…