The idea that one cannot offer an opinion on the judgment of a woman jockey without 1st, or at the same time, also condemning male jockeys makes even less sense than the implication that I am a sexist. Nothing could be further from the truth, something you would know if you were familiar with my longstanding & well-documented efforts on behalf of the downtrodden and oppressed, not that a woman who is already in the hall of fame & who is making a riding comeback fits into either category. And while we're on the subject of sexism, which has nothing to do with the question on the table, isn't one of the basic tenets of feminist ideology that men demean women when they are presented as passive objects in male fantasies?

Again, the question you still haven't addressed has nothing to do with what someone else did or didn't do, let alone me or my ideology. And I am not in a position to address your comment that I am "skipping history as tragedy and heading straight to history as farce" because I have no idea what you are talking about.

This started out with me expressing my disapproval, for safety reasons, of Miss Krone's decision to continue riding, without telling anyone, after she was diagnosed as clinincally depressed and after she started taking powerful presciption drugs. There has never been any suggestion of prosecution, never any suggestion that her decision was a crime, & never any suggestion that what she did violated the Rules of Racing. The discussion raises a straightforward question which calls for a straightforward answer, so stop beating around the bush and disclose your position on the merits: In light of the circumstances, do you agree or disagree with her decision to continue riding?