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Title: if it walks like a duck: sports and the regulation of female bodies
Post by: Shana A on August 22, 2009, 07:58:25 PM
Post by: Shana A on August 22, 2009, 07:58:25 PM
Saturday, August 22, 2009
if it walks like a duck: sports and the regulation of female bodies
Posted by Vanessa at 11:57 AM
http://transgroupblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/if-it-walks-like-duck-sports-and.html (http://transgroupblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/if-it-walks-like-duck-sports-and.html)
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and talks like a duck...it's a duck.
Substitute woman for duck, and one has illuminating insight as to what our culture finds appropriate femaleness, as well as the absence of wiggle room.
Just ask South African athlete Caster Semenya. Muscular body? Deep voice? Stellar athletic performance? Must be a man.
Top it off, Semenya now needs to take a "gender verification test."
if it walks like a duck: sports and the regulation of female bodies
Posted by Vanessa at 11:57 AM
http://transgroupblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/if-it-walks-like-duck-sports-and.html (http://transgroupblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/if-it-walks-like-duck-sports-and.html)
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and talks like a duck...it's a duck.
Substitute woman for duck, and one has illuminating insight as to what our culture finds appropriate femaleness, as well as the absence of wiggle room.
Just ask South African athlete Caster Semenya. Muscular body? Deep voice? Stellar athletic performance? Must be a man.
Top it off, Semenya now needs to take a "gender verification test."