I’m going to guess you’re a linguist, which is very cool. Your explanation is interesting and informative, but very wide of the point. In modern English the word does retain its meaning of “human”, but in everyday life is used primarily to mean “male person”. That’s why titles such as “fireman” were changed. Technicall…

They should team up with CNN’s dogged coverage and call it Where All The White Women At

Read that article again. It says that the male range is 10 to 30. The limit was set at 10, and she had to take inhibitors to get under the 10. Ergo, she naturally produces male levels of testosterone. She has testes. This is not rocket science.

The article says she’s a hermaphrodite. She’s an anomaly in gender segregated athletics. Where do you put someone who’s physiologically both man and woman?

I guess I’m not even sure who you are debating anymore or what it is you are actually debating? The entire question here is whether Caster should be considered a woman for the purposes of athletic competition. Years ago they decided she should not be, then they reversed course and said she is. There is no test to…

Unless you intend to dance through the favelas wearing a suit made out of gold, that is genuinely ridiculous.

My problem with most of the analysis that I’m seeing from the comments (and from the article actually) is that this is a simple case and if you disagree/ question, you are some dumb barbarian. For the past few years, gender and sexuality have come to the forefront as not being simply, and being much more complex than…

But we don’t segregate based on height, or wingspan. We actually do segregate in olympic events based on gender (rightly so or not).

A Y chromosome and testicles isn’t actually arbitrary though, is it?

Caster has undescended testicles ffs, this is not like Phelps. A line has to be drawn somewhere.

You know she’s Brazilian and lives in Brazil, right?

We actually went in a similar time frame in 2014 a few weeks after the World Cup. It was great, because all the crowds were gone, which meant there were no lines anywhere! We stayed in Ipanema, which felt very safe. The only time I ever felt slightly out of sorts was when we went to the downtown around 5PM on a…

Yeah, we have Uber here now too. He’d have been safer in an Uber, though of course, people also play the “pretend to be an Uber” thing, so unless you call and wait inside until they come for you, it is also unsafe.

It is true, but then again, everyone knows you only use cabs from major cab companies, and don’t jump into random possibly gypsy cabs - in any city. Also, gas stations here all have armed security, so the whole “robbed while stopping for gas” angle is probably untrue. More likely, the cabbie drove them to a specific…

Lying to cops is illegal in this and most countries. If an investigation shows it unlikely that the event claimed actually happened, the police will want to talk to the alleged victims again. Knowing that Lochte had no reason to remain in the country, they would have no way of compelling him to explain the details so…

Everybody you know likes street drugs? Or hookers?

Been there multiple times. Never been robbed. It’s easily avoidable if you’re not a total dumbass.

I went. It was lovely, the people were wonderful, and we never felt unsafe.

I went with a friend and we weren’t even menaced with a gun. Now I feel like I have to go back.

Ugh I REALLY wanted Hernandez to win gold.