serena williams faced sexism her entire career. that s not what this was. she s totally out of line. it absolutely makes her more likely to see it. to see it in a vacuum without talking about her being penalized for other things, you know, she was one of the major factors in introducing video replay because of all the calls going against her. she can t wear the cat suit at the french open that she was wearing for health reasons. she has put up with a double standard her entire career. i think to see this one call in a vacuum without considering that larger context is a mistake. that s what she is feeling. don t you have to look at each call in a vacuum? in realtime, in a tennis match, the chair umpire s job to think of that player in the broader context of their career? are they supposed to call them as they see them at that moment?
million or something will make her feel a lot better about it. she is a superstar and headline news back in japan. she s a star already and going to be a future number one, two, or three. she deserved to win. it was unusual circumstances that helped her and only a little bit towards that win. in back of serena, was it cumulative and she had an exchange that came off the heels of the french open changing the rules and not approving of her cat suit that was more of a compression suit that is beneficial before, during, and after pregnancy. do you think she might feel a bit of a piling on? i don t blame her for feeling upset. she has a right to be upset and it was very unfair. she didn t do anything wrong, really. she lost her temper and smashed the racket, but that happens regularly on the tennis court
flight but a right? but any expression. serena williams told her she couldn t wear her cat suit, you have to be frilly. you are playing a power sport in which men are allowed to emote, but women are supposed to dantd i dainty. she has been called a gorilla, compared to a horse, who has been shamed for her body. what hasn t happened? booed as well. she has boycotted for years. so she has a lot of reasons to be angry, but i thought she was quite controlled. she didn t curse. she didn t threaten him. she expressed herself. she stood up for herself in a way that so many black women have to do every day. and that is why you get emotional. viscerally felt that moment because i ve been in that exact situation where something happens to you, that is wrong, you try to stand up for yourself and in the moment you get a little emotional because you you you are trying to keep your emotions in check. so it actually makes you more emotional in the moment as we
the court or come across as an angry bl angry black woman. she s also had her body policed because she s been drug tested more than her peers and she recently was told she can t wear a cat suit, a cat suit she wears for medical reasons because she has a history of blood clots, a history that almost killed her when she was giving birth to her today. she s had her body policed, her wardrobe police and now her emotions policed. and even though she s under this level of stress and duress she demanded an apology in a voice that never reached an extreme level. she didn t throw a temper tantrum. she didn t have a melt down. she wasn t crazed the way we ve seen other male tennis players out throughout the years, behavior that s become part of their public lore. she has been denigrated for showing the slyest b slightest f
this, it s a perfect marriage between kaepernick and the nfl and nike right now. nike has the contract from 2028 to 2029. if you think about nike s history, you go back to the 80s and how they picked up the tab for his shoes and how he broke the rules through charles barkley, i m not a role model slogan in 1993 to lebron who refused to shut up and dribble to serena williams and her cat suit. they push the boundaries and the borders and it makes total business sense and social and cultural sense that the global company and the athlete who is maybe the biggest name in culture and politics and sports that we talk about today, that they have come together with the contract and the marriage. a match made in i guess on the football field is what you are saying. very quickly, will kaepernick