Billie Jean knows this well...she shut up Jimmy Connors, who up until McEnroe came along, had the worst temper in tennis. McEnroe made the on court spectacle a must see in the 70s.

Blaming Grande is ridiculous and hurtful to her as well. Maybe in her deepest darkest thoughts she has considered her impact on Miller, but that’s a big maybe. Even if she had thought about it and she were to blame herself in some way - she’d be wrong.

It’s not an issue of “getting away” with something. It’s an authority figure using technicalities as a pretense to discriminate. Let’s say a black woman is ultimately fired from her job, and the employer justifies it by saying she committed a relatively minor policy violation. According to the law you can use evidence…

I did read Navratilova’s opinion and I stand by my assessment of it. Also, take a seat with your idiotic comparison between how civil and criminal laws are applied and the rules of a game are.

The responses to this (particularly the greys) are surprising. Why does everyone hate Serena Williams so goddamn much? McEnroe is considered a treasure now, even after decades of insanity. So, why is everyone out to get a piece of her?

Wrong. Until the guys can’t get away with it, it IS acceptable. No one has to obediently put up with a double standard if they can fight it.

The thing is that the double standard is the point. Sure tennis players could all behave like ladies and gentlemen but most of them don’t and we all know it. More power to her if Navratilova did but that’s not what this is about.

I agree that this is a “Both sides were wrong in the moment” WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE GAME. He shouldn’t have called a stupid rule that he *cannot possible* consistently call, because he’s not facing the fucking audience. She took it a step too far when she threw the racket. I don’t love it when *any* of my tennis…

For women to be good partners we must be a lover, a mother, a therapist, a life coach, a best friend, a maid, a nurse, a personal chef. Men just have to show up and try not to hit us and even then sometimes we are supposed to give them a pass if its a particularly rough time for him. The bar is so low with men. I know…

Sweet baby Jesus. Who drew that and who published it?

fucking christ - where is this from?!

I remember when I was little, seeing John McEnroe just GO OFF, like nuclear on the judges. I was too young to follow if he got reprimanded or penalized how much, but as much as he was called a troublemaker, he was entertainment.

Also this cartoon wouldn’t have been made about a man or a white woman.

You sure crammed a lot of nonsense into one post!

Exactly. Don’t get me started. The problem isn’t the rules, the problem is their selective enforcement. Not to mention that “thief” is hardly an obscenity; that same referee has had far worse things said to him by men who went unpunished.

What the fuck are you talking about?  She wasn’t complaining about an in-game call. She was complaining that the official, in a fucking Grand Slam final, made poor judgment after poor judgment that literally led to her losing a point and a crucial game...not because she legitimately lost either but because the shit…

What passion!

What has been most striking to me about this event are the teeming hordes who gleefully applaud the coaching violation as correct and are blind to the problem of selective enforcement.

There’s no easy way to do it, but then again there’s never an easy way to do the right thing, that’s why it’s the RIGHT THING. If doing the right thing were easy, it wouldn’t be a big deal when people do the right thing.

The people on the fucking porch...