Thread by @eBoPeep

@ChrissiesWay
The sneak-dissing from white women that you've flagged is on full display in the discourse around Caster Semenya.

As is the self-flagellation of BW SJWing gone awry.

Conflating Caster's struggle as intersex, high-testosterone person w/ struggle of cisgen BW. 🤔

As a HUMAN, I sympathize with the very public scrutiny that Caster has endured for a decade & her unique experience finding out she was intersex (no ovaries; internal male testea) in the public eye.

thestar.com/sports/2009/09…

However, it's not lost on me that the discourse trying to make Caster's case about "Black women writ large" and "imperialism towards Black women's bodies" is just another form of that imperialism.

It's the masculinization of BW, with a patina of bleeding heart progressivism.

"Oh, my heart aches for Caster **and her fellow Black women**. After all, BW are inherently manly & strong & have higher amounts of the hormone associated with men, amirite?
<<assorted SJW buzzwords>>
While, I'm at it- let me throw trans (biological males) into the BW pile too."

And then here come the hyper-empathic, #MoralityMuling (h/t @kimmaytube ) SJW Black women.

Some of whom are earnest & have quietly internalized hyper-masculinization of BW.

Others of whom are jockeying for their next "BW explainer" gig on whatever podcast or in whatever column

"This is how Black women live on the daily."

Did I miss the memo where most Black women are walking around with internal testes?

Why are some so eager to project a rare condition onto all BW? To be complicit in our own erasure as Black *women*, our own hyper-masculinization…?

Note: the sinister undertone of Black womanhood as inherently masculine & in proximity to intersex and transgenderism isn't just present in the discourse of too-woke Twitter.

I heard the same "Caster's case represents Black women's struggles" framing on NPR. Mainstream media.

Important clarification on the intended use of #moralitymuling and other concepts that Kimmaytube has brought to the fore.

https://twitter.com/kimmaytube/status/1124265727517757440?s=21

Kimmaytube's clarification actually captures part of my beef w/ the Caster discourse.

There *are* enough examples of BW being masculinized & our bodies interrogated. So why are the woke-rs & media muddying waters & oversimplifying Caster's case by linking it to cis Black women?

We can sympathize with Caster's plight, recognize how binaries of sex can burden and scrutinize the micro-minority of intersex people, recognize how racism is at play…

And still not further harm Black women by essentializing Caster's issue as a "Black woman struggle."

I looked up Caster's most recent competitors out of curiosity.

Why are white women being centered as petulant, weak adversaries who Caster is triumphing over? What about the cisgen, record-setting, gifted, dignified BW who train just as hard but can't outrun her high T levels?

Thoughtful, factual takes on Caster case & its misframing.

Must-watch by @ChrissiesWay

(thx for understanding the point of my thread & eloquently capturing the big picture)

Must-read by athlete and Duke academic via @Quillette : quillette.com/2019/05/03/a-v…