Martina Navratilova’s take is far more thoughtful and measured, with this point at the heart of it:

She lost the game because the other player was better, not because she was throwing a fit about the ref.

The umpire was a dick, but he’s a pretty consistent dick (to the great men’s players as well), and Serena came back to yell at him about the same issue 3 separate times before calling out the tournament umpire and WTA ref. What was she hoping to gain? If a basketball or football player went off on a ref because of an…

King saw a woman realizing how unfairly she was being treated in comparison to her male colleagues and then refusing to accept that treatment

She lost that match and at no point was that due to a measure of her skill versus her opponents skill.

He is not obligated to include previous decisions against male players by previous chair umpires. He was the umpire for the 2018 Women’s Final, and his interpretation of Serena’s behavior was legit. Goodnight.

Serena stans are the worst stans.

source? check out tennis-focused threads. this ump is known to be thin skinned with men too. there’s a video of him taking points from djoker making the rounds. plus, i’m a pretty big tennis fan — and a big Williams sisters fan — and i’ve never once seen an outburst like this in a grand slam final. the coaching…

“Wherever you happen to fall on Serena’s behavior Saturday night, I’m sure you agree with me that this is the umpire’s fault.”

If you were watching you saw Serena actually thank Ramos for hearing her out after the first warning. At that point she had moved ahead in the 2nd set. But after having her serve broken and falling behind again she smashed her racket and started up again with Ramos. In every sport there are penalties for this type of…

Jesus, how are either of those calls “suspect”, given that her coach admits he was coaching her and she was clearly and loudly personally attacking the ref?

You guys do know that you don’t have to defend EVERYTHING Serena does, right? Nobody is going to call you racist or sexist to admit that yes, she broke the rules and reacted poorly. Was this a questionable time to finally enforce the coaching rule? Yes, but it’s also an issue how many tennis players (including Serena,…

So let me get this straight: Cardi B tries to fight somebody in a very public place because she wanted it to be known she’s actually a good mother?

Maybe Jez needs to get off Cardi’s dick for a while. She’s pretty clearly not the role model you guys think she is. She’s got some serious issues. It doesn’t matter why she threw a shoe at another person. It’s not healthy behavior.

Why the fuck does this website worship Cardi B constantly? I truly don’t get it.

Theres this weird and damaging idea that negative traits women have need to be blamed on a man. It’s an almost infantile view of women. Everyone has some maladaptive traits and those sometimes combine into a spectacularly horrible couple. I just don’t know why it’s difficult to see that maybe she was awful independent…

Or maybe she actually was difficult because of the alcoholism. I've never been a fan of Steinbeck so never dove into his personal life though I imagine his son would've gained some perspective on his parents by the time he reached his 60s. 

Woman meets man when he cheats on his first wife with her. Woman becomes his second wife and starts complaining about his cheating ways.

Everything about this story is seriously fucked up, starting with why the fuck was she in jail for 3 days for parking tickets?

“A county district attorney who investigated the case neglected to press charges, arguing that they did not exhibit any “cruel, oppressive or malicious treatment” toward Coltrain.”