Showing posts with label feminism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label feminism. Show all posts

Thursday, June 28, 2012

What Makes a Woman


In the various social contexts in which I hang out, there's been a lot of yammering lately about gender and sexism.  There was a minor uproar recently about gender testing in the olympics, which has, as these things do, sprawled into a vast battle about sexism and gender bias and heteronormative privilege and so on.

Caster Semanya
South African runner Caster Semanya, one of the first women to be subjected to gender investigation.

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