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Gender Variance and Sport

L.Jenkins · 2012-01-04 18:46:48

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/sports/soccer/jonny-saelua-transgender-player-helps-american-samoa-to-first-international-soccer-win.html?_r=1 I thought was a good piece highlighting a gender varient Samoan Football player.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/sports/soccer/jonny-saelua-transgender-player-helps-american-samoa-to-first-international-soccer-win.html?_r=1

I thought was a good piece highlighting a gender varient Samoan Football player.

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#2 04-01-2012 7:37pm

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ItsThatManAgain wrote: »

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/sports/soccer/jonny-saelua-transgender-player-helps-american-samoa-to-first-international-soccer-win.html?_r=1

I thought was a good piece highlighting a gender varient Samoan Football player.

It confuses me a bit with the jumping around in pronoun though

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.
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#3 04-01-2012 7:49pm

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It does jump alot between pronouns. The concept of a third gender or the Somoan fa’afafine hasn't sunk it with the article writer.

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#4 04-01-2012 9:11pm

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It's interesting the way some Polenisian and some Asian cultures are so accepting of the third gender. Particularly since the Samoans would be more associated with the violence in the male side of their culture.

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