Now, really, it's easy to imagine this sort of thing evolving from locker room talk:
1. "Ugh, she's just so fast! It's not fair!"
Becomes,
2. "Too bad she's got a face like a dude. At least we're prettier than her."
Becomes,
3. "Did you hear she's really a man?"
High school bullying. Pure and simple. It would be understandable if all these girls were actually anywhere close to being in high school. However, instead what you're looking at is two grown women picking on a teenaged girl because they're pissed that she's better than them. So Caster Semenya gets put through a humiliating ordeal on the international news because she's not some blonde haired blue eyed anglo saxon and they get off scot free?
She's looking a bit girlier at the Berlin world championships this year. How much of that do you think is personal preference, and how much of that is her trying to bend to public opinion of what a female athlete should look like?
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