I found today's class to be very profound. Although the speaker was great in everything that she did, she gave a very biased opinion to the subject. The main problem I have with today's class is that people are missing the big picture. It is not the fact that she is a girl that officials questioned her gender, it is the fact that she won and beat everybody by at least 50 meters. When a women has broader shoulder than I do at 6'5" and an extremely deep voice, her body is obviously producing far more testosterone than the average female and all the other females that she was competing against. I find it quite valid that officials tested her not only that she is a male, but that she could be taking performance enhancing drugs. If she is in fact a girl, and she was not using performance enhancing drugs, then what is the problem? Too many people get butt hurt when we question anything about females who are successful. The reaction of the public when Lance Armstrong tested positive for performance enhancing drugs, the public was ashemed. If the runner had tested positive for performance enhancing drugs, people would find that the officials were "sexist" because they questioned her performance due to the fact that she was a girl.
On the other hand, I found the speaker to be in favor of anything regarding females. She never considered what the situation looked like from the sports officials point of view. I think if the sports officials had never tested her sex or if she was on performance enhancing drugs, the media and society would demand it anyway.
Yes, I realize that the media does in fact commonly provide a sexist point of view, but I feel that sometimes we blow things way out of proportion. There are many people in this class that fuel this.
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