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    Serena Williams

    I'm writing on the fly here, but I have been following Williams' historic win and the bullshit response by a significant minority of commentators and all that she has had to endure. For the record, I loathe tennis, but I appreciate athleticism, strategy, creating new images about who belongs where (See, e.g. Misty Copeland), and Moxy.

    Holy misyogyny and racism and old word socioeconomic order! A strong black girl with braids from Compton shattering the old world order. I'm half tempted to see who her sponsors are just to support them.

    I honestly am APPALLED at what she has had to endure. While I'm pissed because of the social justice issue, but I also feel this at a micro level. Can you imagine if the thing that you worked for your entire life had to deal with these extraneous answers?
    I'm personally pissed that I am raising a daughter who is subtly receiving the message, "It doesn't matter if you are the very best the world has every seen, you'd really should be pretty while you do it."

    I'm out the door and on the fly...but wow. How is it our year of the Lord 2015 with this sort of crap still going on.
    In my dreams I run with the Kenyans.
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    I've only seen some of it in passing, but one comment that really floored me was from another player's manager about how keeping her (whichever other player it was, I don't remember) ”small" and "feminine" was like a part of their strategy. Like it was somehow a part of the game, and something to be proud of, that she wasn't big and athletic like Williams. It disgusts me that that's even a consideration today. Play your game. Be a badass. Win. That's it. You don't get extra points for playing as a petite white woman.
    Wife of PGY-4 (of 6), cat herder, and mom to a sassy-pants four-nager.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by MsSassyBaskets View Post
      You don't get extra points for playing as a petite white woman.
      You get extra money! Blatantly.

      I think she's awesome.


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      Married to a hematopathologist seven years out of training.
      Raising three girls, 11, 9, and 2.

      “That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”
      ― Lev Grossman, The Magician King

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      • #4
        I liked JK Rowling's response. http://www.businessinsider.com/jk-ro...illiams-2015-7

        It's stupid that this is thing. At our high school, the tennis players are the new cheerleaders: all blonde, perfect and mean. I wonder if it's country clubs.


        Angie
        Angie
        Gyn-Onc fellowship survivor - 10 years out of the training years; reluctant suburbanite
        Mom to DS (18) and DD (15) (and many many pets)

        "Where are we going - and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

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        • #5
          Serena Williams is beautiful and strong. Love her.
          Heidi, PA-S1 - wife to an orthopaedic surgeon, mom to Ryan, 17, and Alexia, 11.


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          • #6
            Serena Williams is beautiful and strong. Love her.
            Me too!!!
            Luanne
            wife, mother, nurse practitioner

            "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him." (John, Viscount Morely, On Compromise, 1874)

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