You Throw Like A Girl

via Brutal Women: 15-year-old girl throws three touchdowns

When the Bishop Montgomery High School quarterback went down with a fractured leg, his replacement stepped in and completed four of five passes for three touchdowns.

There’s nothing too unusual about that, except that the replacement quarterback was a girl.

Miranda McOsker, 15, is one of 253 girls out of 100,000 high school students in California who are playing football this year, according to the California Interscholastic Foundation. She joined the private Catholic school’s football program last spring.

I love when our expectations are challenged. Stereotypes might feel true in aggregate yet they don’t tell the whole story. Ever.