In my defense, I only saw the movie. Maybe the play version is better? The scene where they revive the dude at the end is TOO FUNNY.

You are! Sorry to be the one to have to enlighten you!

Virtually every news source has a take- most of them negative. 

Now I’m super curious if you’re a man or a woman. 

Maybe in the media YOU consume, but they’re reacting to this shit:

What, you haven’t? Ask your friends and learn! Or are you a man that doesn’t realize this?

John McEnroe did *WAY FUCKING WORSE* than this, and now he’s the go-to commentator for big matches, so I’d say he’s been actually been embraced for the “bad boy” image. What she did was more on par with a normal guy tantrum. Yeah, it’s not a good look (on the men or the women), but for SOME reason, it’s not front-page…

...except that’s not what Osaka has said. She said that she was crying because she beat her idol. That’s a fucking heady thing to do, and it’s a totally understandable reason.

She’s not despicable. She argues about a normal amount for pro tennis, which I admit I don’t love from ANYONE, but what she did wasn’t so fucking out of the norm that we should still be talking about it days later.

Yup! It reminded me a lot of when Venus beat Serena on a double fault at Wimbledon. I think they were both crying, or at least super-serious, all throughout the end of the match.

They’ve handled everything so well and in so many surprising ways, but I’m nervous that it will go downhill before it’s over, and I would be so sad because I love it so much.

Yeah, people in Maine don’t really...talk about shit. It’s all very shaker of them (us? I moved to Mass, so I’m not sure I count anymore- I even drive over the speed limit now). Like, you gotta bottle that all up, stoically, and if you need an outlet, you can tell it to the ocean or the trees, depending on your…

Don’t you enjoy the extra time, though?

Yup. I never watched, but my husband was a fan, and feels *very* ostracized in male spaces when he can’t contribute. Heck, I’m a teacher, so I work in white lady land, and even there I am constantly hounded about why I’m not wearing Pats stuff to show team spirit the day before games. Like, virtually everyone owns a…

YUP. I love unions, but a union is really just a group of people, and in this case, the people are cops. I don’t trust a single fucking thing they call for.  

*in uniform*, too. It’s likely the reason he answered the door, if he truly didn’t know her. 

I’m glad that at least it sounds like Keegan-Michael Key did something approaching decency. 

...but it sounds like this was a movie set with a kid on it. Wouldn’t that affect things? Also, how is Jacob Tremblay such a good actor an he’s still only 11?

Yup. What she did was, for better or worse, part of a fairly normal pro game. It’s the fact that we’re even having the fucking debate that’s the problem. It’s baffling to me, as a long-term tennis fan and erstwhile player, that people would be so bent out of shape about this, even though, like I said, I don’t love…

Now, maybe, but at the time? Honestly, probably not. I had a whole panel of doctors and nurses looking at EVERYTHING as I gave birth, and I didn’t really care.