"Nothing Semenya has done in the past month has suggested that she likes to wear dresses, get manicures and let down her hair. After the controversy broke, she kept her cornrows, wore baggy clothes and pounded her chest in victory like a college football cornerback. When she returned to her hometown, she was dressed the same way. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. That seemed to be Semenya’s natural inclination. This feels forced."
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At first I had only read that first sentence and I was all ready to slap that writer in the face.

Embattled track star Caster Semenya gets new coach, new look - Fourth-Place Medal - OLY - Yahoo! Sports


"Is there truly a gender conflict around Comic-Con, or is this a tempest in a transporter? If women haven’t gone to Comic-Con in the past, who was walking around in all those slave Leia outfits, anyway?"

"The Ethical Slut says that we should “question all the ways we have been told our sexuality ought to be, so we can begin to edit and rewrite our old tapes."

Our Racist, Sexist Selves - New York Times

Experiments have shown that the brain categorizes people by race in less than 100 milliseconds (one-tenth of a second), about 50 milliseconds before determining sex. And evolutionary psychologists believe we’re hard-wired to be suspicious of people outside our own group, to save our ancestors from blithely greeting enemy tribes of cave men.