The media debate surrounding it is deeply disturbing in many ways -- and the gymnasts worry me (also the synchronised swimmers) because they clearly have to be 'pretty' as well as talented. And what happened to Caster Semenya -- and at this games the questions a man raised over Ye Shiwen -- are misogyny at its worst.
What I am loving is the women themselves. They're boxing because they want to. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Price's yellow hair-ribbon isn't high-tech, it isn't there to help her performance; it's clearly there for her, because it makes her happy. They wear their scars openly, too -- look at Rowsell. And that I love. Many of them seem to know who they are.
I'm really looking forward to the paralympics, because there will be many more awesome women.