more on caster semenya

[cacique]

coach quits over ASA handling of l'affaire semenya at WC in berlin:

http://www.weekendpost.co.za/article.aspx?id=468082


also, she gets dolled up for magazine photo shoot:

http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=1061944


she's apparently preparing for the upcoming commonwealth games.

[hemlock]

Re: more on caster semenya

...also, she gets dolled up for magazine photo shoot:

http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=1061944


she's apparently preparing for the upcoming commonwealth games.

Please please please, before this triggers any un-complementary and impertinent comments on Caster's appearance... ...if you are going to do it, POST A PICTURE OF YOURSELF AS WELL, so we can all have a go.

[Hano]

Re: more on caster semenya

coach quits over ASA handling of l'affaire semenya at WC in berlin:

http://www.weekendpost.co.za/article.aspx?id=468082


also, she gets dolled up for magazine photo shoot:

http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=1061944


she's apparently preparing for the upcoming commonwealth games.

Which will be in one year, no European meets in the pipeline?

[vencio2]

what is the status re. her eligibility right now? is she allowed to compete, if she wanted to? would promoters want her in their meeting, what with the titillation and freakshow-style coverage it would generate?

[croflash]

Any word on how much longer it will take before the results are in ?

[Marlow]

titillation and freakshow-style coverage it would generate?

What the heck are you talking about? There's some question about her chromosomal make-up. This is not a carnival side-show.

[croflash]

Athletics South Africa President Leonard Chuene has branded former national athletics coach Wilfred Daniels' statements that Caster Semenya was duped into taking gender tests as "wild allegations".

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?from ... 753C684638

How many more twists and turns could the entire saga possibly take ? :?

[vencio2]

titillation and freakshow-style coverage it would generate?

What the heck are you talking about? There's some question about her chromosomal make-up. This is not a carnival side-show.

I know that, but look at how the press report it, how non T&F fans view it. To them, it is exactly that.

[TrackDaddy]

Re: more on caster semenya

coach quits over ASA handling of l'affaire semenya at WC in berlin:

http://www.weekendpost.co.za/article.aspx?id=468082


also, she gets dolled up for magazine photo shoot:

http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=1061944


she's apparently preparing for the upcoming commonwealth games.

She's getting "dolled up" in preparation for the Commonwealth Games?

Do you think a skirt will alter her stride?

[nbonaddio]

Colleen Lowe Morna, executive director of the Gender Links advocacy organisation, said: “It is amazing how, in order to accept her, we have to turn her into our stereotypical image of what a woman should be. She’s made it clear she does not like dresses, high heels or glamour. Celebrating diversity means accepting women and men in all their shapes, sizes and forms, not moulding them into some typecast image of who we want them to be. Let Caster be Caster!”

Yep. A majority of this discussion is offensive at best, and downright embarrassing at worst.

[tandfman]

Re: more on caster semenya

http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=1061944[/url]

There's a picture of this in the Semenya makeover story now linked on the front page here.

[TrackDaddy]

Colleen Lowe Morna, executive director of the Gender Links advocacy organisation, said: “It is amazing how, in order to accept her, we have to turn her into our stereotypical image of what a woman should be. She’s made it clear she does not like dresses, high heels or glamour. Celebrating diversity means accepting women and men in all their shapes, sizes and forms, not moulding them into some typecast image of who we want them to be. Let Caster be Caster!”

Yep. A majority of this discussion is offensive at best, and downright embarrassing at worst.

So now its stereotyping a woman to expect that there may be some indication of her gender made apparent by what she wears? Hmmp. :?

Anyway....it sounds like the Gender Links Advocacy Guru either doesn't know what she's talking about or is more likely pushing her own agenda.

"I'd like to dress up more often and wear dresses but I never get the chance," she said as she was photographed in several outfits."

"Now that I know I can look like this I'd like to dress like this more often"

Caster Semenya



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8243553.stm

[feltdog70]

Re: more on caster semenya

coach quits over ASA handling of l'affaire semenya at WC in berlin:

http://www.weekendpost.co.za/article.aspx?id=468082


also, she gets dolled up for magazine photo shoot:

http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=1061944


she's apparently preparing for the upcoming commonwealth games.

She's getting "dolled up" in preparation for the Commonwealth Games?

Do you think a skirt will alter her stride?

I hope not!! i want to see that 1:53 go down... I just wish that Jelimo was in her 2008 form. Then we could possibly see a 1:50 in the women's 800. Oh well, my wishful thinking....

[croflash]

Re: more on caster semenya

coach quits over ASA handling of l'affaire semenya at WC in berlin:

http://www.weekendpost.co.za/article.aspx?id=468082


also, she gets dolled up for magazine photo shoot:

http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=1061944


she's apparently preparing for the upcoming commonwealth games.

She's getting "dolled up" in preparation for the Commonwealth Games?

Do you think a skirt will alter her stride?

I hope not!! i want to see that 1:53 go down... I just wish that Jelimo was in her 2008 form. Then we could possibly see a 1:50 in the women's 800. Oh well, my wishful thinking....

1:50 ? :shock:

[Marlow]

So now its stereotyping a woman to expect that there may be some indication of her gender made apparent by what she wears?

So now one's clothes defines one's gender?? Women in pants (a Sudanese woman was arrested and found guilt of 'gross misconduct' because she wore pants) are LESS feminine? That seems like a rather unenlightened attitude.