Just another rose
"When does a rose not need another name", ponders Martyn Best?
The bizarre circumstances of the Women's 800m world championship final in which Caster Semenya of South Africa has been accused of not being a woman sounds like a plot from a Brian Singer movie.
Though surely even the equally enigmatically named Keyser Soze would not have dreamed that Ms Semenya could have been one of the usual suspects in this incredulous story.
Her 8 second annual improvement in this 2 minute race may have raised some eyebrows, but not suspicions of drug abuse - merely unjustified accusations about her very own eyebrows.
South Africans rarely require sympathy - a strong, independent people, they can well look after themselves, but one must surely have some sympathy the crass insensitivity over an issue which should not take 2 weeks to resolve - never mind have been raised in the first place.
The new language we are now discovering reveals that a gender test conducted by endocrinologists will define any hormonal and chromosome imbalances with Ms Semenya.
Let me suggest a much quicker method, and one that every schoolchild understands, every midwife would be well able to assist with, and which would dispel the grief and torment that the poor girl and her family must be suffering.
Sometimes, that much neglected common sense just seems to go out the window, and in the week that the 80th Southport Flower Show exhibited so many beautiful flowers, it is quite clear that occasionally we should just recognise that some roses quite simply do not need another name.
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