Anything you can do I can do better...which makes you angry

First off, let me just say that I had to wake up at 5:40 in the morning to stand around for 3 hours.  Why was I doing this you ask?  Well, you see I had mandatory volunteering(funny phrase, I know) at the Rock and Roll Half marathon.  I had the privilege of standing at a street intersection and dealing with distraught drivers who could no longer cross the street due to the 12, 000 people signed up for this 13.1 mile "race" (which i choose to put in quotes because some people were paying $80 to walk the entire thing and some people didn't even know how long the race was).
So the beginning of my standing time went be fairly quickly, mostly because I enjoy people watching, and even more so because my iPod was delivering a pretty solid shuffle.  As more and more runners(since this was the point when everyone was still running) went by I noticed the gender field was getting varied.  The beginning of the race will always be male and I am not stubborn to ever try and argue otherwise.  But as soon as more female runners began passing i started wondering...how many of the men that are closely trailing them are extremely frustrated that they are behind a girl right now?  Sure you have your super-intense-almost-manly-muscular woman now and then but soon enough I witnessed a pair of ladies running in guitar costumes and tutus. And, surprisingly enough, these women were going at a pretty decent pace, and were beating men that had the "very intense running face" going on. I wondered what these men were thinking about their position right now...and now that my assignment is to find a scholarly article to associate with my blog there could be nothing better than to use this example to look at the role of the female in today's society...to view the scholarly article, please click the image below.