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New Every once in a while, Dawn Neesom hits it out of the park. Here, she did with Serena.
Just seven days ago the award for screeching harpy went to Roxanne Pallett. A creature whose grasp of reality is about as flimsy as the plot of Bodyguard. Fast forward and bring on our new contender: Serena Williams.

Yep the best female tennis player of our time with 39 major titles under her belt. A proper role model to young women – strong, determined, talented and nobody’s fool. Not for her endless pouty, scantily-clad Instagram selfies. Nope instead we had a real body, gleaming with health and vigour.

And then came this week’s US Open where our heroine threw a tantrum that would shame your average toddler. Long story short. Serena, 36, was being beaten by Naomi Osaka, 20.

The umpire – Carlos Ramos, one of the toughest on the circuit – punished her for getting illegal advice from her coach. She then smashed her racket into pieces and called Ramos a thief, a sexist pig and demanded he apologise.

He docked her a game. If she’d been a footballer she’d have been sent off. It was shocking, abusive and aggressive behaviour. As if that wasn’t disappointing enough Serena went on to shriek: “I’m a mother, I have a daughter.”

Er, you what love? What the hell has that got to do with your bloody forehand smash? Can you imagine a male player who happened to be a dad screaming that as a defence? No.

For decades women have fought to prove that being a mother doesn’t hold you back. It might not be possible to have it all but having a womb doesn’t reduce you to a gibbering, hormonal, overwrought wreck. Oops.

Thanks for that Serena. In one deranged outburst you set back, not just female tennis players, but women as a whole too.

The usual feminist Twitter hate mob has backed Ms Williams playing the sexism card without even investigating the crime. Meanwhile, sane tennis players like the cool headed Annabel Croft have pointed out that Ramos is the sort of umpire who would have penalised a man in exactly the same way.

The fault is in the way different umpires officiate, bugger all to do with sexism. Not that that was going to stop Serena who claimed she was fighting against the anti-women agenda in tennis. Yeah, unless that woman was opponent Naomi Osaka who had just won her first major title, an achievement promptly forgotten in Serenagate. The poor girl even felt she had to apologise.

Meanwhile, Serena went home to cash her £1.3m runners-up cheque and post a cutesy picture of her daughter Alexis, who turns one next week. Cos, you know, Serena’s a mum… So everyone moves on. Or do they? Yesterday an Australian newspaper printed a cartoon depicting a heavily-caricatured Serena jumping on her racket. Bingo. Race card time.

The artist, one Mark Knight, exaggerated Serena’s hair and facial features as caricatures do. If she’d been white and been drawn unflatteringly no-one would have said a thing. It’s a toon. Like Roxanne’s sorry example before it’s about females trying to “empower” women by playing the victim card.

And if anyone can explain the sense behind that please do. Cos this isn’t #MeToo. It’s #MeMeMe.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/729063/dawn-neesom-column-serena-williams-sexism-row-us-open

Dawn's right, the response to this has been ridiculous.
bcnu,
Mikem

It's mourning in America again.
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A very great player, Serena Williams has had several memorable meltdowns at the Open. The worst was in 2009, when she loomed over a diminutive line judge shouting, “I swear to God, I’m f—ing going to take this f—ing ball and shove it down your f—ing throat.” Game, set and match to Belgium’s Kim Clijsters, who coincidentally went on to become the first mother ever to win the Open.

Afterward, Serena said the line judge was foolish to fear her, as she’s never been a violent person.

So no, I’m not buying Serena’s 2018 melodrama, and neither should anybody else. Half-drunk, boorish U.S. Open crowds are bad enough. But an experienced world-class athlete like her deliberately provoking the crowd was a shameful display of poor sportsmanship.

The kid was beating her; Serena couldn’t take it.




https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/serena-williams-naomi-osaka-fabio-fognini-u-s-open-tennis/




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New Wish I could find the video I just saw
Why is it female athletes have meltdowns, male athletes are passionate?
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New Look for Billie Jean King inteview. She (I'm sure among others) said it.
bcnu,
Mikem

It's mourning in America again.
     Every once in a while, Dawn Neesom hits it out of the park. Here, she did with Serena. - (mmoffitt) - (3)
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             Wish I could find the video I just saw - (drook) - (1)
                 Look for Billie Jean King inteview. She (I'm sure among others) said it. -NT - (mmoffitt)

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