The one point where I don't agree with the author is his argument that race has anything to do with why Serena makes less in endorsements/sponsorship than Sharapova. Sharapova makes that much money in sponsorship because she's hot. Same as Kurnikova, except Kurnikova was an even worse player.

i can recall a couple of male white tennis players losing their temper & being threatening on the field. they never got the same racist abuse that the Williams sisters did. wonder why?

Thanks for your replies everyone. This event happened in the Netherlands, so shooting the dog was never an option. And the only thing that would've happened is that the police would've been called and they would've destroyed the dog in some way (I tried to find information about the methods used in the netherlands at…

I think this is the thing that bothers me most. Although I guess they're all aware that there was nothing else he could do or at least felt he could do at the time. But I do feel it is odd to keep reiterating the story to confirm that what happened is totally OK. It's just uncomfortable.

How in the WORLD does that warrant a *shrug*?! "Eh, whatevs, sometimes folks attempt to murder your pet big whoop get over it"??!?!?!?

Not trying to go all Internet Tough Guy™ Or nothing, but if I caught my neighbor doing that there would be fucking blood getting shed. My dog ain't just a pet, he's fucking family.

unless you're suggesting that these dogs were being handled by a poisoned steak, I have no idea what this comment is doing here.

Take "no" for an answer, but don't be so afraid of hearing it that you don't put yourself out there. I took me a long time to learn the second part.

Then some other person would likely exist as the product of your parents reproducing with other people, special snowflake.

I must respectfully disagree with one set of assertions here: there ARE soul mates, time DOES NOT heal all wounds, and often finding other fish in the sea is a difficult proposition.

And to those people I say: My mom went out with my dad because she wanted to meet my dad's roommate. He badgered her into dating him. He had to badger her into marrying him.

They fucking hate each other. It sounds romantic from the outside, but it is not. cute. up. close.

This is a key life lesson, and I'm really uncomfortable with the trend of shielding children from rejection and failure. And this extends past simply harassing someone you find attractive and being unwilling to accept defeat.

*But maybe a better adjusted person raised by a happier mother would be here instead and we WOULDN'T WANT THAT NOW WOULD WE.

I love that! I so want to unabashedly love her, I def have fantasies about doing BFF activities with Taylor and Lena together.

They also care when you threaten cops online. They look up IP addresses and spare nothing to get at the bad guys then. But when it's a woman, eh, that's a lot of effort and paper work.

I'm rarely serious, and I certainly don't wish for anyone to bring serious legal repercussions on themselves.

I said well-being. My well-being is certainly considered lower priority in a society that keeps trying to limit my ability to make decisions about my own reproductive health, continues to do little to stem the rape rates and leaves many rape kits untested, all while engaging primarily in victim-blaming media patterns,…

So what I'm seeing is an opportunity to create jobs by properly staffing a department that realized it had a responsibility on another front of terrorism. As a female, the kinds of vile things I get on almost a weekly basis is disgusting and I'm not even a "someone".

Lawmakers need to get over the whole "the internet…

It's pretty obvious - if we force women to carry all pregnancies to term, it'll end racism. It's just science.

"Justice and equality for all"?