Something that always has bothered about the way people portray Serena is how she’s always been painted as the bad guy. This woman has literally followed every single rule of tennis.
She gets 4 more time anti dopping tests done than her colleagues. In her 23 years of career she’s never failed one (not even under the excuse of having used meds, which I’m sure she’s had to use more than once). Not that even matters, becuse steriods fuck up with your soft tissues and causing muscular injuries, which in the case of using them continiusly (as she often gets accused of doing) she would have had a lot more of those.
I often hear people talking about how she “looks like a man” and no? I mean… I doubt Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal would look like she does on any of the dresses pictured above. Yeah, she’s muscular… But she’s been an athlete most of her life. She’s had a 23 years career playing tennis, I think sge has the body of someone who’s done that.
Not only that, but she follows the dress codes of the tournaments she plays. What happened after Roland Garros this year is proof that she can’t do anything right. Roland Garros didn’t have a specific dress code, but now, after she played with a compression suit she literally needs to prevent the formation of blood clots that could kill her (and in fact almost did after the birth of her child), it does and compression suits are “banned”.
And now… This thing with this referee, because she called him out on his shit? Because he made a bad call and she told him so? And she said that men have said and keep saying worse things to referees (which, btw, is true?
Don’t come at me with that shit. Why do y’all don’t just admit that when comes to Serena Williams is never about tennis and always aboyt what you don’t “like” about her as a person.
As I’m planning to tell my dad next time we have this conversation “Just admit your problem with Serena Williams gas less to do with tennis and more to do with the fact that you don’t find her attractive, even when she is avvery attractive and succesful woman?”
ugh 