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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - You may remember the name.
But if you’ve been on the business end of an e-mail from Amy Green, you’ll surely know the tagline.
“Well-Behaved Women Rarely Make History."
The 50-year-old Oklahoman has lived the words of Harvard professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich throughout a professional life spent in advertising sales, but even more so in nine years alongside the squared circle as a boxing publicist.
And for those who still consider the latter off-limits for women, she’s got news for you – courtesy of a role model who’s spent her own career blazing a similarly gender-bending trail.
“Being in a so-called ‘man’s game’ is a little trying at times because there is some attitude you have to endure, but now is probably a bit better than when Jackie Kallen started over 30 years ago,” Green said. “And I appreciate her hard work and the advice she's given me – remain calm under pressure, watch the profanity, always smile.
“Simple things really, but for me kind of difficult because if I don't like the way a fighter I work for is treated it's tough for me to ignore the fact they've been treated poorly. The fact that boxing isn't considered a woman's game is pretty much an archaic way of thinking, like the old 1950’s school of thought for girls – ‘You're interested in medicine? Marry a doctor.’ BS.” [Click Here To Read More]
But if you’ve been on the business end of an e-mail from Amy Green, you’ll surely know the tagline.
“Well-Behaved Women Rarely Make History."
The 50-year-old Oklahoman has lived the words of Harvard professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich throughout a professional life spent in advertising sales, but even more so in nine years alongside the squared circle as a boxing publicist.
And for those who still consider the latter off-limits for women, she’s got news for you – courtesy of a role model who’s spent her own career blazing a similarly gender-bending trail.
“Being in a so-called ‘man’s game’ is a little trying at times because there is some attitude you have to endure, but now is probably a bit better than when Jackie Kallen started over 30 years ago,” Green said. “And I appreciate her hard work and the advice she's given me – remain calm under pressure, watch the profanity, always smile.
“Simple things really, but for me kind of difficult because if I don't like the way a fighter I work for is treated it's tough for me to ignore the fact they've been treated poorly. The fact that boxing isn't considered a woman's game is pretty much an archaic way of thinking, like the old 1950’s school of thought for girls – ‘You're interested in medicine? Marry a doctor.’ BS.” [Click Here To Read More]
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