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@taniwharugby haha now they're just making shit up. Kyrgios gets torn to shreds by all and sundry when he plays up like that, to the point that you start to feel a bit sorry for the bloke - in fact I remember Federer feeling like he needed to come to his defense as the hate was getting so toxic.
That's like the myth that females get more abuse online than males, when basically all studies done state the opposite is true. Idiots in the media just make up bullshit to suit the narrative they are trying to push.
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How is sexism even a relevant argument in this context? The other player was a female ffs. If this was a vile misogynist pig trying to take down women why not penalise the other player? Oh yeah that's right, because she didn't get instructions from her coach, didn't smash her racket and didn't abuse the umpire. How can anyone, including her biggest fans, defend her on this? She is so in the wrong it's not funny.
This is as absurd as John McEnroe being hounded to apologise when he gave a honest appraisal of where SW stands in relation to male tennis players.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Tennis:
How is sexism even a relevant argument in this context? The other player was a female ffs. If this was a vile misogynist pig trying to take down women why not penalise the other player? Oh yeah that's right, because she didn't get instructions from her coach, didn't smash her racket and didn't abuse the umpire. How can anyone, including her biggest fans, defend her on this? She is so in the wrong it's not funny.
This is as absurd as John McEnroe being hounded to apologise when he gave a honest appraisal of where SW stands in relation to male tennis players.
Asian too brudda. Not that SJWs care about facts like that.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Tennis:
How is sexism even a relevant argument in this context? The other player was a female ffs. If this was a vile misogynist pig trying to take down women why not penalise the other player? Oh yeah that's right, because she didn't get instructions from her coach, didn't smash her racket and didn't abuse the umpire. How can anyone, including her biggest fans, defend her on this? She is so in the wrong it's not funny.
This is as absurd as John McEnroe being hounded to apologise when he gave a honest appraisal of where SW stands in relation to male tennis players.
Asian too brudda. Not that SJWs care about facts like that.
Half Asian and half black! Her dad is Haitian. She's as black as Obama.
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It's also been reported that the umpire was paid $633 for the final. That's probably less than what SW earns per second. Yet somehow the player worth hundreds of millions and who is married to a tech billionaire is some kind of victim and the guy who correctly did his job and was paid a pittance for doing so is the villain. What kind of fucked up parallel universe are we living in?
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Tennis:
It's also been reported that the umpire was paid $633 for the final. That's probably less than what SW earns per second. Yet somehow the player worth hundreds of millions and who is married to a tech billionaire is some kind of victim and the guy who correctly did his job and was paid a pittance for doing so is the villain. What kind of fucked up parallel universe are we living in?
Source for that rancid? That can't be right surely.
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@antipodean American media more correctly and others on that side of teh ledger.
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Some time during the last election cycle, every retarded American media woman with "feminist" in their twitter bio (sure sign of acute retardation) decided that Beyonce, and every other "strong black woman", was their hero, and not a single comment would be tolerated that wasn't venerative.
It actually made them more risible and irrelevent than before.
cf. Peak Guardian
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Tennis:
It's also been reported that the umpire was paid $633 for the final. That's probably less than what SW earns per second. Yet somehow the player worth hundreds of millions and who is married to a tech billionaire is some kind of victim and the guy who correctly did his job and was paid a pittance for doing so is the villain. What kind of fucked up parallel universe are we living in?
Source for that rancid? That can't be right surely.
That's what it says here
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.news.com.au/sport/tennis/incredible-truth-about-chair-umpire-in-serena-williams-controversy/news-story/d0411d6458db5fdbd74dfc58b0f5ecb8 -
Serena has always been a poor loser. I've disliked her since her career began for it.
In the early days, when she lost it was because she was sick or injured. Never because she was outplayed.
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@virgil too windy, never gonna come back....
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@chester-draws said in Tennis:
Serena has always been a poor loser. I've disliked her since her career began for it.
In the early days, when she lost it was because she was sick or injured. Never because she was outplayed.
That is exactly correct!
She would sometimes start limping when she was losing.
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@taniwharugby said in Tennis:
@virgil too windy, never gonna come back....
Fuck, lucky she didn't turn up for a hit at the Renouf Centre
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Some time during the last election cycle, every retarded American media woman with "feminist" in their twitter bio (sure sign of acute retardation) decided that Beyonce, and every other "strong black woman", was their hero, and not a single comment would be tolerated that wasn't venerative.
It actually made them more risible and irrelevent than before.
cf. Peak Guardian
cf. Still with herFfs Tim , it’s perfectly understandable. White women even weaponise their tears.
How white women use strategic tears to silence women of colour | Ruby Hamad
The legitimate grievances of brown and black women are no match for the accusations of a white damsel in distress
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@chester-draws said in Tennis:
Serena has always been a poor loser. I've disliked her since her career began for it.
In the early days, when she lost it was because she was sick or injured. Never because she was outplayed.
Bingo. Her whole act yesterday was no different to the kids I grew up playing against who were unhappy with a call not going their way i.e Find your excuse and stick to it.
Serena's advantage is the American media back her to the hilt and that means other players etc have to come out on her side or risk being attacked in the biggest media market. Unless Federer said something. He's probably the only one who would be allowed.
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I am a little shocked and surprised at the amount of people who are coming out in support of her for sexism. I'm clearly not a modern thinker, as I'm logical, and not prepared to make inferences everywhere to suit my argument and base them as fact.
If I try and give some balance to my position on this, she's always been a hell of a competitor, driven like fuck and undoubtedly has faced discrimination in the wealthy white dominated tennis world in the U.S. If she didn't receive coaching and she was docked a point for it, you can't really blame her for being livid about it ... although perhaps being livid against her coach would be the more appropriate place to vent her anger.
The thing that really fucks me off though is the way she claims about being treated differently and immediately starts throwing racism and/or sexism cards around. It's like she has no idea that despite being (and declaring herself) to be one of/if not the greatest woman's tennis player ever, that would being her under more scrutiny. She in herself, is probably a billion dollar business. Billion dollar businesses GET MORE SCRUTINY.
My favorite thing I've read online about this is from some SJW called Rebecca Morgan ... shows a video of her getting some shit calls in 2004 as some sort of bastion as to why she had the right to lose her shit and ruin Osaka's day, but then writes this superb piece ..
"She is right; this has happened to her too many times. She is a black woman penetrating a space historically dominated by white men"
Boom. White men. The source of all evil, and apparently, once upon a time the best female tennis players ever.
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Two excellent posts suggesting that Serena faced racial discrimination in tennis.
I wonder....
Excelling at sport in a sporting community has a way of negating skin colour in my opinion.
Look, we can't ever know what it's like being a black woman in America.
This Serena nonsense is an amalgamation of both these immutable characteristics, but pertaining to the race part I reference this, (it's a reliable source on a landscape starved of authenticity I reckon):
Should we water down the, racial vilification of all black U.S. citizens, pity or empathy that a good kiwi upbringing demands of us?
I dunno, perhaps a bit?
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@rocky-rockbottom said in Tennis:
yeah Serena wouldve had a tough time growing up black around all them white country club tennis Malibu Staceys sniggering at her shit. Also doesnt help that in terms of x's and y's she looks about 48% BLOKE.
But still, just imagine if say, a Djokovic went up to an ump and yelled "I never cheat. I have a daughter. I do what's right." The gales of laughter would shame the nutter right off centre court. Instant viral meme status. Sponsors would be glancing at each other like "what the fuck is wrong with our guy? Has he been touched in the head or some shit? Get him off the fucken air. Our product is not in the market of being associated with entitled divatic lunatics suffering from some sort of disassociative reasoning fucken schizoid meltdown."
Yet in the sepposphere when a proud black woman says that loopy tripe to the ump she's standing up to her white male oppressors.
I wish you'd post more often double R. Your shit rocks !
