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Douchebag Decree: Who covered Caster Semenya the worst?

DigiBitch post by Kjerstin Johnson, Submitted by Kjerstin Johnson on August 27, 2009 - 4:23pm; tagged athletes, Caster Semenya, Douchebag Decree, gender, sports, sports culture, sports writing, Women Athletes.

South African runner Caster Semenya has been making international news for a week or so now, and this week's Douchebag Decree is honor of those news outlets and blogs that have handled the blown-out-of-proportion debate over Semenya's gender the worst. It turns out that not only are pundits and bloggers jerks about Semenya herself, but have some other unfortunate sexist hangups as well. Let's see what this gang of douchebags had to say, featuring supplemental douchey content the comments from the original posts and a Douchebag Decree honorable mention!

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The Accidental Jock

Article by Monica Nolan, Illustrated by Aya Kakeda, appeared in issue Fun & Games; published in 2005; filed under Social commentary; tagged athletes, competition, games, play, She's Got Game, sports, stereotypes.

Fun & Games

I’m not an athlete. I’ve always disliked team sports, with their conformist, vaguely fascist associations. While as a child I longed to be a tree-climbing tomboy, I had to admit a preference for tea parties, dress-up, and long afternoons at the library.

Then one summer night, three years ago, I played my first game of bike polo. It’s an elegant game: With mallets in their right hand, players ride their bikes up and down the field trying to whack a grapefruit-size ball between two orange cones. It was instant love.

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