Stereotypes Change, but Great Pasta is Great Pasta

This morning The Great Plotnik heard about a sportswriter for the Stiletto City Times who is a woman who used to be a man. At first earful, Plotnik thought: Wait a minute. This guy became a woman to become a sportswriter? Wouldn't it make more sense for a man to become a woman so he/she could now write a gossip column or a fashion column or a weekly about relationships? Wouldn't you think sex changes would go in the other direction if the changee wanted to write about football?

Plotnik loves America. Are we truly so far from old stereotypes that no one, except Plotnik, even notices them anymore? Ehhh, probably not.

It's devilishly hard to get a job on a newspaper anymore. There are probably five sportswriter jobs left on any newspaper in North America. The paper was probably having trouble filling the 'sports writer/male and female' slot. No longer. Genius.

Were we speaking of food? BZ's coming home, so Plot is practicing her favorite pasta -- oil-cured black olives, feta, onions, sun-dried tomatoes and capers in lemon fetuccini.