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Osaka performed was amazing. Both women played thier hearts out. Sadly residinghere2007 will think other wise or I'm just virtue signaling to women and black America. But to be honest. Both women played when hell of a Match.
Lol there you go again being a psychic trying to infer what other people think - at least now its just an individual
It doesn't matter what was "meant" it was indeed a racist, sapphire caricature of Serena. Naomi Osaka was also depicted as white in that cartoon.... See picture below - Serena is not much bigger for one that Naoni and they are of similar skin color, Serena is just a shade darker and not some huge hulking, black beastly monster compared to Naomi who is shown as a white blond lady in the comic:
FWIW I agree that Serena could have handled it better, but the cartoon was racist and the treatment she received was sexist. I know Martina Navratilova wrote a piece on this as well that I read a couple days ago. She also mentioned that Serena could have handled it a different way, but she - also a women's tennis legend - admitted that there was a double standard in tennis in the way officials treat male versus female athletes. So both gripes by Serena are warranted.
She has been subjected to similar racist cartoons as well in the past and recently had an outfit banned from the French Open. She's often been policed in tennis much moreso than men players especially.
You didn't post thr political cartoon. I saw the political cartoons. Thr context is not racist or sexist. But it is perceived as such. Since it is perceived as such, than it is racist or sexist. I have seen far worse images of Serena Williams. I also hate it when men call her a man, transsexual or call her a horse. Serena is a very beautiful and fine woman physically and all around.
I'm positive that Serena's muscles are not exaggerated in that cartoon. That is exactly how she looks, and any denial of that fact is dishonest. Her muscles are unnatural, akin to the muscles of a man, and in my opinion, for whatever reason she has it, that unnatural "woman's" physique" transgresses the boundaries of female gender definition and thus spoils any notion of fair competition women's tennis. She needs to be pi$% tested randomly and regularly.
I don't think she uses any drugs. I'm an inch taller than her, have big bones (wide hips, size 9.5 feet), and I'm 130 lbs now, but I'm pretty sure if regularly did strength exercises, I would look like her.
Yeah, yeah, most women don't have the testosterone for it, but I think my height and bone structure is a sign that I probably have high testosterone, and could easily look like the hulk if I'm not careful. She simply made it work for her.
So it's not accurate to say that it's unnatural for women to look like her.
You didn't post thr political cartoon. I saw the political cartoons. Thr context is not racist or sexist. But it is perceived as such. Since it is perceived as such, than it is racist or sexist. I have seen far worse images of Serena Williams. I also hate it when men call her a man, transsexual or call her a horse. Serena is a very beautiful and fine woman physically and all around.
Beauty is subjective, and a lot of men don't find that Mike Tyson-build attractive on a woman.
The cartoon was not meant to be racist or sexist according to Knight. Knight himself is also a lefty and has done many jabs towards trump. People across the Anglo Saxon world are calling for Knight to be fired. Yesterday I browsed thr greatest communication community in earth. Black Twitter. People are outraged over the caricature. The big lips in my opinion is wrong, other than that. The comic just shows outrage, and comedy. Sadly thr Anglo Saxon world is in the state of culture war. While China and Russia are doing high fives and laugh at the failures of Anglo Saxon is colonization and globalization.
So why did he portray Naomi Osaka, who is Japanese and Haitian, as a seemingly blonde white woman and Serena Williams as a caricature of a black woman?
Black women can be as angry as they want, just don’t be surprised when black men continue to date outside their race.
Being black is stressful enough without the added stressor of coming home to an angry spouse.
I would say they are doing black women a favor when they date and marry outside of their race but, that's a conversation that needs it's own thread.
Anyway, black women are always labeled as angry. Speak up and give your opinion-angry, don't smile-angry, stand up for yourself-angry, breathe-angry. When a white woman speaks up or gives her opinion, it's "speaking up for what she believes in". If it's a Hispanic/Latina woman, she is "spicy" or "fiesty". It's annoying to be called an "angry black woman" when you're just expressing emotions and opinions like everyone else does.
So why did he portray Naomi Osaka, who is Japanese and Haitian, as a seemingly blonde white woman and Serena Williams as a caricature of a black woman?
Maybe because Serena makes a big deal of being black, and keeps referring to her race during interviews....
Her color in the comic is symbolic of her own words.
You didn't post thr political cartoon. I saw the political cartoons. Thr context is not racist or sexist. But it is perceived as such. Since it is perceived as such, than it is racist or sexist. I have seen far worse images of Serena Williams. I also hate it when men call her a man, transsexual or call her a horse. Serena is a very beautiful and fine woman physically and all around.
the cartoon was posted earlier in the thread....
I also saw the cartoon a few days ago. Serena is depicted as a beastly, animalistic brute (inferior human, i.e. racist depiction - there is an historically racist tradition of depicting black women in that way starting from the 1800s).
Also, you overlooked the fact that I mentioned and reason why I posted the picture of the both of them - Osaka is depicted as white in the cartoon. She was the one who was "well behaved" (i.e superior according to the artist's depiction - she is also small and slight even though in real life she and Serena are similar in size and she is actually a bit taller than Serena) and Naomi is brown-skinned but is depicted as a white woman - same color as the umpire.
Images have racist meanings when they show a historically racist depiction. The entire figure of Serena is a sapphire black woman - historically racist. Osaka being white is akin to her being an angelic "good" figure even though she is almost as black as Serena.
You didn't post thr political cartoon. I saw the political cartoons. Thr context is not racist or sexist. But it is perceived as such. Since it is perceived as such, than it is racist or sexist. I have seen far worse images of Serena Williams. I also hate it when men call her a man, transsexual or call her a horse. Serena is a very beautiful and fine woman physically and all around.
It was the same thing with Michelle Obama. I don't know why men on the internet are so catty to any women who aren't 5'2 85 lb tiny things.
Maybe because Serena makes a big deal of being black, and keeps referring to her race during interviews....
Her color in the comic is symbolic of her own words.
LOL, if she didn't say she was black does that mean she isn't lol!
Naomi Osaka is almost as black as Serena BTW and she has corrected people who attempt to label her only as Japanese by stating that she is both Haitian and Japanese.
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See picture below - Serena is not much bigger for one that Naoni and they are of similar skin color, Serena is just a shade darker and not some huge hulking, black beastly monster compared to Naomi who is shown as a white blond lady in the comic:
