Every Serena Williams win comes with a side of disgusting racism and sexism

[ghostsinthemachine]

Serena Williams beat Lucie Safarova to win the French Open Saturday. Her reward, at least on social media, came in the form of some of the same racist and sexist comments that have followed her for her entire career.

In the moments surrounding her win, Williams was compared to an animal, likened to a man, and deemed frightening and horrifyingly unattractive. One Twitter user who wrote that Williams "looks like a gorilla, and sounds like a gorilla when she grunts while hitting the ball. In conclusion, she is a gorilla." And another described her as "so unbelievably dominant...and manly". ESPN sports commentator Bomani Jones responded to those reactions — as well as to the ones that dismissed them as subjective commentary — with a series of tweets..



http://www.vox.com/2015/3/11/8189679/serena-williams-indian-wells-racism

[Evergreen Emerald]

1. I believe she is the best athelete

to ever represent America. She has worked hard for her achievements and deserves our respect and gratitude.

[BlueMTexpat]

2. Serena is a wonderful athlete and we should

all be very proud of her.

For those who aren't, then it is not Serena who is the problem. They need simply to look in the mirror.

[undeterred]

3. When Monica Selles made a lot of grunts

I don't think anyone said that about her.

[AndreaCG]

4. Serena is a better tennis player than her sister

But Venus has always been the class act of the two. Serena was a spoiled brat, rude about her fellow players, threatening a lines person as recently as a few years ago, when she had been a professional more than 15 years. It's only very recently that she has anything nice to say about an opponent during a post match interview. Venus however has always been a lady, and I seldom use that word.

[4lbs]

5. Eh, those are just haters. They can't deal with the fact that Serena with the flu is still better

than every female tennis player in the world.