Friday, September 11, 2009

Gender Bender: How embarrassing is that?!

I really do not follow sports as a rule, even though I come from a family of athletes...How sad my late Father must have been having a 6.5 son who hated to play or even watch most sports, including his Dad's favorite-Football. But I digress as this is about a recent development in the wide world of sports. The very public and I am sure very humiliating revelation that the world's fastest woman is not technically a woman, or at least not all all woman. As Olympic Gold Medalist Caster Semenya was found to have both male and female parts, or to put it another way she's a hermaphrodite. Now how fucked up is it that not only are you born a hermaphrodite, but it is revealed to the entire world! Or worse yet, that your gender was questioned publicly to begin with! I mean not everyone in the world is handsome, pretty, smart or whatnot, that is just how life is. But to not even look enough like the sex you supposedly are that you have people openly questioning your actual sex cannot be easy and then on top of that to have it publicly asked must be a nightmare.

1 comment:

  1. Wow, yeah, that is a bit to much. They could have resolved the whole thing in a Private Part of the stadium - Oops! To soon? ;D

    /Johannes

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