I blame Anna Kournikova (who never won a grand slam or title, I might add) for this misconception that female tennis players must look like a model while holding the racket.
A reason I have like soccer and tennis (as someone who played both) is that the rules for men and women are the same.
Dollars to donuts the people commenting aren't beauty queens themselves. And being good at a sport isn't reserved just for the slender types. Lots of athletes are broad or big boned with some weight on them.
I blame Anna Kournikova (who never won a grand slam or title, I might add) for this misconception that female tennis players must look like a model while holding the racket.
Yeah, it's all her fault. She's such a bitch with those long legs and blonde hair. I mean, who does she think she is?! Fuck her, non-grand-slam-title-holding loser.
That came out wrong. I don't mean I literally blame her, but I think men have her in their head as how a female tennis player should look and thus make disgusting remarks when a great athlete does something pretty incredible. Making it about how she looks rather than what she accomplished.
So really, I blame the idiots who need to see women as pretty little things where that is all that matters.
Post by littlesthobo on Jul 9, 2013 11:07:42 GMT -5
Fucking gross. And am I the only one who thought tennis spectators were kind of prim and proper? Like, isn't it supposed to be a "gentlemen's" game? No?
Post by blueballoon on Jul 9, 2013 11:09:44 GMT -5
I don't put much stock into idiots on twitter. If they weren't calling her fat, they'd be calling her a skinny bitch only good for fucking. Theres always going to be idiots who love to try and tear others down.
I can't read that stuff. I get really worked up thinking about her reading it.
Right? And I'm extra horrified at the BBC presenter who commented that "she'll never be a looker" and then offered the half-assed apology that he was sorry if it offended/upset her.
I agree, she's a knockout. I also think it's crappy to be shitting all over someone's looks while they are in the midst of a game. I know I certainly am not pretty to look out while working out or end of the game when playing sports.
Oh sick. Wow. I had no idea that people could be so hateful over TENNIS. Like having a brunette, normal-bodied champion is going to somehow mar the whole image of the game?
Wow to those comments. Those aren't the typical nitpicking comments you usually read like "Boy she's a fatty". Those are downright personal like they all have a sick vendetta against her. A fat smelly little slut? My God. And notice that it's mostly men making those comments. Guys like to talk about how it's women who trash other women and how we are so hard on each other.
I can honestly say that if I saw a comment like that from someone I know, I'd consider ending the friendship with them. That's how vile those comments are. To get worked in a froth of anger because a woman isn't size 2 is just so weird and creepy to me.
I don't understand the whole slut thing. How is she a slut?
I don't understand this about anyone who doesn't know someone and says "I hate them, they're a slut"
well, she dared not only to be successful, but also not to be sexually attractive to him. and probably also not sexually available to him. ergo, she must be the lowest of the low, a woman who is free with her sexuality rather than saving it up to bestow upon the elite few (read: that guy) who are worthy (due to the fact that they breathe air, because you know that asswipe isn't bringing anything else to the table).
Wow to those comments. Those aren't the typical nitpicking comments you usually read like "Boy she's a fatty". Those are downright personal like they all have a sick vendetta against her. A fat smelly little slut? My God. And notice that it's mostly men making those comments. Guys like to talk about how it's women who trash other women and how we are so hard on each other.
I can honestly say that if I saw a comment like that from someone I know, I'd consider ending the friendship with them. That's how vile those comments are. To get worked in a froth of anger because a woman isn't size 2 is just so weird and creepy to me.
Yeah, i wondered what the women (pictured with some of the assholes) thought of their comments. But then I realized that they are dating them, so perhaps they don't really care.