blather: claiming my peeps

Aug 19, 2009 21:14

As a woman who sang bass in choir, who was so flat chested she got teased in swim class, and whose voice changed when she hit puberty (oh fun), I claim Caster Semenya as my peeps and say the ass hats demanding a gender test before they award her the gold medal should go stuff their ideas of gender into the tiniest orifice in their bodies they can ( Read more... )

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lamentables August 21 2009, 06:38:35 UTC
The more I see of this story the more I'm fascinated* by (a) how many experts from how many disciplines it takes to identify a woman and (b) the thought that when a woman is successful the response is to want to reclassify her as a man.

*for values of fascinated that include being infuriated as well

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