I don't delve too much into the excruciatingly stupid world of Twitter and its rabid army of busy bodies, faux-righteous warriors and general all around buffoons.
But sometimes a story pops up that catches my attention and while I was just going to ignore it at first, the Serena Williams outburst happened and figured to tie the two together.
First, the academic lashed out at Quantas because one of its stewardesses did address her as 'doctor'.
“Hey Qantas, my name is Dr O’Dwyer. My ticket says Dr O’Dwyer. Do not look at my ticket, look at me, look back at my ticket, decide it’s a typo and call me Miss O’Dwyer. I did not spend 8 years at university to be called Miss,” she wrote.
She later tweeted:
Copping so much flack for this tweet. This was not about my ego. It was about highlighting one of a thousand instances of sexism that women encounter every day. It’s not about the title, it’s about the fact that this wouldn’t have happened if I was a man.
Notice how both (see below for Serena's excuse) turn around to defend and justify the inexcusable by using sexism as an excuse.
Which is bull of course.
They were both driven by a sense of entitlement. They let their egos drive their emotions.
In the case of the academic, two things spring to mind for me. It's a ludicrous statement because men with PhD's don't always get called 'doctor' and for the most part, and this key, don't make a Federal case out of it. So her accusation of 'what if it happened to a man' rings profoundly hollow and stinks of ignorance.
We have a few doctors in our circle of friends and not one commands we address them as doctor. We have actual doctors who don't expect to be called doctors for crying out loud.
Sounds to me this person is absolutely concerned about status and titles or else why tweet that nonsense?
I don't know if this is the first time this happens to her or if its often (she may have expanded on that on her twitter account). Nonetheless, whatever happened to facing life with self-deprecation and grace?
Moving on to Serena Williams, I'm going to assume you already saw or read about how the citations unfolded during the match.
After her 20 minute meltdown, she now faces a $17 000 fine for her behaviour during the U.S. Open final which culminated into the fans booing the winner Naomi Osaka.
Could you believe that? Take a bow you jerks. Jerks all around.
But it's okay. Serena tried to make it all better:
I don't know why the media (mind you, it's sports media where the most faux-woke breed work. The cowardice they show never ceases to amaze me) loves Serena. They glossed over her unsporting behaviour and focused on her addressing the crowd as being 'gracious'. Billie Jean King in particular was going to make sure she was going to be a candidate for being the most insufferably nauseating.
They way all talking gibberish dancing around what everyone knew: Serena was wrong. Only Navratilova had the courage to state the truth.
Let's give her a sportsmanship award. Why not? These days we give some many awards undeservedly why not?
“To lose a game for saying that, it’s not fair. How many other men do things? There’s a lot of men out here who have said a lot of things. It’s because I am a woman, and that’s not right.” Williams also rounded on Donna Kelso, the supervisor for the Women’s Tennis Association, and told her “I’ve worked so hard to be in this position.”
The stats don't back her up.
How can anyone support her despicable behaviour? Especially tennis people.
At least she didn't say black woman. I'm so sick - and often disgusted - by this gratuitous bull shit about race and women now. I don't see how it justifies the behaviour. Why don't you show true courage and just accept you were wrong?
Furthermore, this from someone who threatened to ram tennis balls down the throat of a female umpire.
She continued:
“For you to attack my character is something that is wrong,” Williams continued. “You will never ever, ever be in another final. You are a liar.” Then, when she called Ramos a “thief” for taking away a point from her, he gave her a code violation for verbal abuse, resulting in the game penalty that carried Osaka to 5-3 in the second set."
How dare you apply the rules against me as I struggle to beat a player who is better than me today!
Problem is, her coach admitted to coaching her but they weakly pleaded but it wasn't "coaching-coaching" (to borrow an infamous style of distraction first blurted by genius of our times Whoopi Goldberg when she described Polanski's rape of a 13 year-old as not being 'rape-rape) - wink.
So she may have lied and called the ump a liar. I think we call this projection?
The bottom line in all this sordid affairs is she lost because Osaka was better. Simple as that.
No, people aren't talking sexism or double standards in sports in the way they would like. Instead, people are finding out it's not as being portrayed. Well, not for the right reasons. They're discussing it in the context of what Serena did. What's more important here is the lesson on how to lose with grace and avoid hogging attention like a narcissistic twit. More on Obama in a later post by the way.
Rather, we're talking about how to lose with grace. How her grandstanding was in poor taste. That she doesn't speak for women. At least, those of us in the real world that actually raise children.
In other words, we're using Serena as an example as to not what to do in those situations.
Ultimately, when these two women were called out, they then played the victim card.
They're not victims. They're the authors of their own script. Face and own it.
Are they not their own moral and intellectual agents?
I wish people like these two stop claiming to be playing and speaking for women.
They don't.
If anything, these are two example I use to teach my daughter exactly not to do in life. If anyone maintained a quiet dignity it was Naomi Osaka and she comes out looking like a true champion.
And for the love of God, can they stop using their after game conferences to lecture people or talk about their agendas?
But sometimes a story pops up that catches my attention and while I was just going to ignore it at first, the Serena Williams outburst happened and figured to tie the two together.
First, the academic lashed out at Quantas because one of its stewardesses did address her as 'doctor'.
“Hey Qantas, my name is Dr O’Dwyer. My ticket says Dr O’Dwyer. Do not look at my ticket, look at me, look back at my ticket, decide it’s a typo and call me Miss O’Dwyer. I did not spend 8 years at university to be called Miss,” she wrote.
She later tweeted:
Copping so much flack for this tweet. This was not about my ego. It was about highlighting one of a thousand instances of sexism that women encounter every day. It’s not about the title, it’s about the fact that this wouldn’t have happened if I was a man.
Notice how both (see below for Serena's excuse) turn around to defend and justify the inexcusable by using sexism as an excuse.
Which is bull of course.
They were both driven by a sense of entitlement. They let their egos drive their emotions.
In the case of the academic, two things spring to mind for me. It's a ludicrous statement because men with PhD's don't always get called 'doctor' and for the most part, and this key, don't make a Federal case out of it. So her accusation of 'what if it happened to a man' rings profoundly hollow and stinks of ignorance.
We have a few doctors in our circle of friends and not one commands we address them as doctor. We have actual doctors who don't expect to be called doctors for crying out loud.
Sounds to me this person is absolutely concerned about status and titles or else why tweet that nonsense?
I don't know if this is the first time this happens to her or if its often (she may have expanded on that on her twitter account). Nonetheless, whatever happened to facing life with self-deprecation and grace?
Moving on to Serena Williams, I'm going to assume you already saw or read about how the citations unfolded during the match.
After her 20 minute meltdown, she now faces a $17 000 fine for her behaviour during the U.S. Open final which culminated into the fans booing the winner Naomi Osaka.
Could you believe that? Take a bow you jerks. Jerks all around.
But it's okay. Serena tried to make it all better:
"I don’t want to be rude. She played well. Let’s make this the best moment we can, let’s not boo any more,” said Williams."Except you already made it about you. 'Let's make this the best moment we can?' We? The best way to have done this was for you to stand back and have the decency to respect the sport and your opponent.
I don't know why the media (mind you, it's sports media where the most faux-woke breed work. The cowardice they show never ceases to amaze me) loves Serena. They glossed over her unsporting behaviour and focused on her addressing the crowd as being 'gracious'. Billie Jean King in particular was going to make sure she was going to be a candidate for being the most insufferably nauseating.
They way all talking gibberish dancing around what everyone knew: Serena was wrong. Only Navratilova had the courage to state the truth.
Let's give her a sportsmanship award. Why not? These days we give some many awards undeservedly why not?
“To lose a game for saying that, it’s not fair. How many other men do things? There’s a lot of men out here who have said a lot of things. It’s because I am a woman, and that’s not right.” Williams also rounded on Donna Kelso, the supervisor for the Women’s Tennis Association, and told her “I’ve worked so hard to be in this position.”
The stats don't back her up.
How can anyone support her despicable behaviour? Especially tennis people.
At least she didn't say black woman. I'm so sick - and often disgusted - by this gratuitous bull shit about race and women now. I don't see how it justifies the behaviour. Why don't you show true courage and just accept you were wrong?
Furthermore, this from someone who threatened to ram tennis balls down the throat of a female umpire.
"Now Williams lost her temper – something that has happened twice before at the US Open. During the 2011 final, she accused chair umpire Eva Asderaki of being “a hater” and “ugly inside”.And even before that, in 2009, her semi-final against Kim Clijsters ended in another point penalty after she told a lineswoman “If I could, I would take this ----ing ball and shove it down your ----ing throat.”
She continued:
“For you to attack my character is something that is wrong,” Williams continued. “You will never ever, ever be in another final. You are a liar.” Then, when she called Ramos a “thief” for taking away a point from her, he gave her a code violation for verbal abuse, resulting in the game penalty that carried Osaka to 5-3 in the second set."
How dare you apply the rules against me as I struggle to beat a player who is better than me today!
Problem is, her coach admitted to coaching her but they weakly pleaded but it wasn't "coaching-coaching" (to borrow an infamous style of distraction first blurted by genius of our times Whoopi Goldberg when she described Polanski's rape of a 13 year-old as not being 'rape-rape) - wink.
So she may have lied and called the ump a liar. I think we call this projection?
The bottom line in all this sordid affairs is she lost because Osaka was better. Simple as that.
No, people aren't talking sexism or double standards in sports in the way they would like. Instead, people are finding out it's not as being portrayed. Well, not for the right reasons. They're discussing it in the context of what Serena did. What's more important here is the lesson on how to lose with grace and avoid hogging attention like a narcissistic twit. More on Obama in a later post by the way.
Rather, we're talking about how to lose with grace. How her grandstanding was in poor taste. That she doesn't speak for women. At least, those of us in the real world that actually raise children.
In other words, we're using Serena as an example as to not what to do in those situations.
Ultimately, when these two women were called out, they then played the victim card.
They're not victims. They're the authors of their own script. Face and own it.
Are they not their own moral and intellectual agents?
I wish people like these two stop claiming to be playing and speaking for women.
They don't.
If anything, these are two example I use to teach my daughter exactly not to do in life. If anyone maintained a quiet dignity it was Naomi Osaka and she comes out looking like a true champion.
And for the love of God, can they stop using their after game conferences to lecture people or talk about their agendas?
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