You Magazine
In an article titled 'Wow, Look at Caster Now,' a South African magazine has given Caster Semenya a complete makeover -- complete with makeup, hair and new clothes.
The latest issue of You Magazine has Semenya on the cover, and although you have to be a paid subscriber to view the entire article, you can still catch a glimpse of Semenya's makeover on the magazine's homepage. Caster Semenya rocketed to stardom -- and controversy -- after a dominating win in the women's 800 meters at the IAAF World Championships in Berlin. Critics charged that Semenya was not a woman, and representatives from the IAAF announced that they were conducting "gender testing" on the young South African track star.
Semenya, who is only 18 years old, has largely stayed out of the spotlight since the controversy started. She received a hero's welcome when she returned home to South Africa, but this latest makeover indicates that she may be ready to meet the controversy head on. On the cover, Semenya has her hair down and is wearing a simple black dress; other pictures from You Magazine show Semenya in a glittery silver cocktail dress and earrings. Semenya told You Magazine that she liked the clothes so much she wanted to buy them.
According to the Guardian, Semenya tells the magazine that she thinks the gender controversy is a "joke." She also says, "God made me the way I am and I accept myself. I am who I am and I'm proud of myself."
Some are questioning the move, however, wondering if the makeover was really Caster Semenya's idea. Owen Slot, a columnist for the Times Online, says: "Increasingly, Semenya is resembling a pawn being shifted around the chess board by powerful controlling forces." Slot also wonders why the makeover was done now, since it serves to reignite the whole controversy.
Comments
RuPaul???
wow .. nice YOU. what a great way to get more audience
thats real mean of you both.
She looks great... but she should be accepted no matter how she looks!!!
she's not the williams brothers long lost brother is she?
not familia, we like her just the way she is
Throughout history Black Women have been made and remade into those cute European White Male psycho-physical molds; either through pressed hair or forced rape and or prostitution related pregnacies that produce acceptable half-breeds that are for some a colonial success.
Yet, Africanism as the cradle of all race and gender will never be restricted to the quaint psycho-physical and racist mindset of Europeans, which gives them a hatred beyond conventional science.
There is nothing wrong with Ms. Semenya looking and feeling psychologically and physiologically who she internally she's herself as a separate human entity, as long as she is healthy and happy regardless of attempts to desect her genetically.
She is truely a model for all Black Women, who find themselves treated as ugly, imperfect or otherwise not-european-looking enough for those warp into that mode of physical beauty.
I AS A BLACK MALE THINKS SHE'S BEAUTIFUL...
david wood must be blind in 1 eye...racist!
Dyke Davis, what are you trying to say that all black women look like men. I am a black woman and I don't look like a man. Semenya looks like a man and I am stating the truth. Just because I am black, I am not going to say she look like a woman . It does not matter to me what her colour is, she just look like a man.
Despite the ugly comments from the narrow minded, she is a beautiful black woman, in cornrows or not, with a great athletic future.
There are some white women out there that looks way more like a man thanshe does. Take our past president of the US - The first Bush president wife looks like his Old white Dad in Drag, but that didn't stop them from having a Devil as a child Bush to second. And them white women aren't nothing but white maggot leeches smelling like a wet dogs on a 100 degrees summer afternoon.
Why all the nasty comments against white women? - why do you have to insult them because a S African runner is a hermaphrodite? If YOU were competing against her, I guess you would not care if you were running with someone having both male and female sexual organs, thus giving her more testosterone and a resultant huge and unfair advantage.
Your racism is showing -
Some of the ignorant statements here show me that there are people who are entirely unaware of the same type of microscope that was turned on the "women" of Russia and the rest of the Eastern Bloc decades ago. There was also a question of their sex because of the same type of sports dominance. So it's not racist and it has historical precedence. Look it up.
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