Was there a time when they hadn't "earned the right"? What did "women" as a group do to earn this right? Did I miss something? Was it on the news? ;)
Rather droll, don't you think?
(P.J. leaves thread and returns to writing desk, where he writes a scathing critique of A.A. Milne. Gets up from desk to high-five George Orwell.)
Yes, Orwell's interested in female Olympians.
What, you didn't know?(!)