Sunday, September 13, 2009

What Makes a Woman a Woman?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/magazine/13FOB-WWLN-t.html
Published: September 11, 2009

There is a painting by Richard Prince hanging in the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, a purple canvas bisected by one line of chartreuse type that reads : “I met my first girl, her name was Sally. Was that a girl, was that a girl. That’s what people kept asking.” That refrain echoed in my head as I pored over the photos of 18-year-oldCaster Semenya, the South African track star whose biological sex was called into question last month after she annihilated her competition, winning the 800-meter world championship in significantly less time than her own previous finishes........

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