Wednesday, September 23, 2009

I read an article about Serena Williams and when she lost the match because of a penalty after she reportedly said, “I will kill you,” to a lines judge. I chose this article because we just finished up talking about gender and sport. I wanted to hear what others thought about this situation with Serena. My thoughts about this penalty would be do you think this would ever happen to a man? Would he be penalized for yelling remarks, which Serena denies saying in the first place, during a critical part of a match? Or was Serena not acting “lady” like? One blogger wrote under the article that, “these girls don’t take shit from others,” and I really liked his statement. Most females would say okay and move on to the next point but being the competitor she is Serena was able to say what she thought; maybe not to the extent of killing the line person but she should be able to state her opinion on the call. I really liked this website because it not only had great articles but great input and discussion going on below the article.

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