Double Standard For Serena Williams

I went on the Edge of Sports website and read the article "Double Standard for Serena Williams". I liked the website a lot, the article was well written and the author posted a good opposing response that someone sent him. The article tied nicely into some of the things we've been talking about in class lately. Serena got in trouble in a recent match- after a bad line call was made that affected the outcome of the match she made an inappropriate comment to the line judge that ended up costing her the game. I agreed with all of the points the author made- yes she was in the wrong to say what she did, it was in really bad taste and showed awful sportsmanship, but as the author pointed out, there were some race and gender issues that Serena faced. Federer had an incident a few weeks ago in the US Open finals and (because he was a male??) didn't get in trouble- no fines, no apology press conference, nothing. The author also pointed out that if Serena were a little white girl playing she also most likely wouldn't have received this treatment. Serena has a harder time because she is a black, female athlete. Inequality in sport is still a major issue that athletes are facing today....