my daughter is a man?

The controversy begins when a female sprinter comes out of nowhere to blow away the competition. How could someone run so much faster than everyone else the world collectively asks.

So what does the world do? The world publicly questions whether she is really a he. I mean what else could it be? She couldn’t possibly be faster than the other women she raced against, right?

It all starts in Berlin at the track and field world championships. It’s here that South African teenager, Caster Semenya blew away the competition winning the 800 meter by such an astounding margin that people needed to come up with an explanation.

When Ben Johnson blew away everyone in the 100 meters a few Olympics ago. Everyone suspected he was on the juice. It turned out he was and he was banned forever.

But this is different. Ben Johnson looked like a man. Nobody told him to turn his head and cough while a panel of judges checked his manhood.

But that is what many seem to want to do to the young female sprinter. Sure she has hardened looks and a chiseled profile, but so does Brad Pitt. He’s a mighty pretty man and nobody is questioning his sexuality? Maybe Zack Effron, but that’s another issue for another day.

When I was a kid and watched track and field events. The Eastern Block women all looked like NFL linebackers. They had muscles on muscles. They had protruding foreheads, and thinning hair and a nice 5 o’clock shadow, even though it was only 1 in the afternoon. They were obviously chemically altered humans, but nobody was asking them to drop trow and show their junk to the judges.

That’s what caught me off guard on this story. I can see Entertainment tonight or TMZ blasting this story all over the airwaves, but traditional broadcast media was riding this pony. Charlie Gibson on World News Tonight was publicly questioning whether she was a he. And based on what? Her feminine adam’s apple? A pair of biceps that would make most men jealous? She is a studly looking chick, but is that a hard news angle for World News Tonight?

Have masculine women, with latent facial hair and an alleged scrotum, not won in track and field before?

While walking to the medal ceremony, someone screamed out; “how ya feeling.”

Semenya smiled and said, “Good, MAN.”

Interesting phraseology, don’t you think?

Aerosmith once sang, Dude looks like a lady. Or in this case, lady looks like a dude. But so what!

My question is this. Just because the sprinter is not sports illustrated swimsuit hot, does that mean she stands to pee?

If I was her daddy, this public question would make me irate.

Call my little girl a man, and do it publicly? Man I’m going to bitch slap somebody. I would start with Charlie Gibson. I would pull his nostril hair and make his eyes water till he said sorry.

Show me your junk, Charlie Gibson. Prove to me you got a pair? Oh you don’t? Then shut up! Leave my little man-girl alone.

It really is an insult, and it was uttered so publicly, so globally, it boggles the mind.

Despite the fact the world is demanding proof that Semenya is a women, her family is standing behind her and down playing the controversy.

I think it’s crazy they even need to. I mean, how freaking rude? Maybe she’s just unattractive. And that begs the question? Is a woman who looks like a man – ugly? Or is that woman just masculine? But what if she looks like a good looking man? Is she an ugly woman who looks like a good looking man? Does that somehow make her good looking in an androgynous type of way?

According to published reports: Her dramatic improvement, muscular build and deep voice sparked speculation about her gender. Her father, grandmother and cousin dismissed speculation she is not a woman.

“She said to me she doesn’t see what the big deal is all about,” South Africa team manager Phiwe Mlangeni-Tsholetsane said. “She believes it is God given talent and she will exercise it.”

Her father, Jacob, told the Sowetan newspaper: “She is my little girl. … I raised her and I have never doubted her gender. She is a woman and I can repeat that a million times.”

To make this story even more incendiary, the South African Athletic Federation is basically saying it’s a black thing.

“It would not be like that if it were some young girl from Europe,” Chuene told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “If it was a white child, she would be sitting somewhere with a psychologist, but this is an African child.”

I don’t know if she is singled out because she is African, but I definitely think it is rude. If you have suspicions, then test her. There are ways to know for sure, so test, privately, quietly.

There’s no need to embarrass a young athlete, her parents or her nation.