Well, this is certainly interesting.
Damorte, it looks like your article find has been making the rounds and has a couple more news outlets all worked up about it.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl? ... 22/1840229
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Thalaria wrote:At first I was going to say that was disturbing, but I find it strangely fascinating. There aren't many people like that in the world, so I think she could provide an interesting case study for heavily androgenized females.
I'll say it outright: I know it's one of the weird things that makes us human in that we find unusual things about other humans and gawk. I'll admit--I've told some pretty awful jokes before. But in this case, I find it interesting. The only encounter I've had with this subject was via a college elective (human sexuality). While there was much discussion in the text about androgenized females, I can't recall there being any references to currently-living examples (applies to hermaphrodites as well). Maybe I'm overly optimistic, but this could provide further research for things like female exposure to/high production of male sex hormones.
Anyway, that's just my take on this. It's a shame she'll probably be stripped of her medals considering she had little choice in who she is. That's the saddest part. Worse still, she may face staunch ridicule as a "freak" with this information now openly available. While it's interesting to know, I'm not so sure certain things like this should necessarily be made public. I never pay much attention to the Olympics as it is anyway.
As an aside, this provides us with a moment to reflect on male/female athletics, particularly since the US Open (tennis) is still in progress. I find it interesting that female competitors are upset that they don't receive the same prize money as their male counterparts and yet they 1) compete in a separate series with other females and 2) only play a maximum of 3 games whereas male matches can go up to 5.
alacor wrote:Thalaria wrote:At first I was going to say that was disturbing, but I find it strangely fascinating. There aren't many people like that in the world, so I think she could provide an interesting case study for heavily androgenized females.
I'll say it outright: I know it's one of the weird things that makes us human in that we find unusual things about other humans and gawk. I'll admit--I've told some pretty awful jokes before. But in this case, I find it interesting. The only encounter I've had with this subject was via a college elective (human sexuality). While there was much discussion in the text about androgenized females, I can't recall there being any references to currently-living examples (applies to hermaphrodites as well). Maybe I'm overly optimistic, but this could provide further research for things like female exposure to/high production of male sex hormones.
Anyway, that's just my take on this. It's a shame she'll probably be stripped of her medals considering she had little choice in who she is. That's the saddest part. Worse still, she may face staunch ridicule as a "freak" with this information now openly available. While it's interesting to know, I'm not so sure certain things like this should necessarily be made public. I never pay much attention to the Olympics as it is anyway.
As an aside, this provides us with a moment to reflect on male/female athletics, particularly since the US Open (tennis) is still in progress. I find it interesting that female competitors are upset that they don't receive the same prize money as their male counterparts and yet they 1) compete in a separate series with other females and 2) only play a maximum of 3 games whereas male matches can go up to 5.
The US Open it is more about revenues. Male sports will draw more of an audience than Female as a whole. Therefore revenues for sponsors is a higher premium.
Women's Tennis is prob the closest there is in the two sexes as far as an audience and it is still far behind.
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