Gender Stereotyping of Women and Caster Semenya

[Natasha]

Gender Stereotyping of Women and Caster Semenya

http://womenborntranssexual.com/2009/09/09/gender-stereotyping-of-women-and-caster-semenya/
bu Suzan
9/9/09

I've been really grossed out by the treatment of Caster Semenya by the press and even more so by some of the know everythings among TS/TG/IS folks.

One of the main virtues of being old and having lived a life of awareness of the reinforcement of gender rules, sexism, and misogyny is the aspect of seeing patterns repeat.

This is particularly true of women in sports, where the best and strongest actually have muscles that show and invariably have their femaleness questioned because of it.  Some of this is geopolitical as in the case of the USA questioning the femaleness of the athletes of communist nations while holding their own very strong women up as delicate flowers of femininity.