“When a woman is emotional, she’s ‘hysterical’ and she’s penalized for it. When a man does the same, he’s ‘outspoken’ and there are no repercussions.”
That was the message the tennis great Billie Jean Kingtweeted on Saturday, responding — as seemingly the rest of the internet has — to Serena Williams’s fraught U.S. Open loss.
In case you’ve been blissfully unplugged: During the match, an umpire penalized Ms. Williams — first because he thought she was coached from the stands, then for what he deemed verbal abuse. (She called him a “liar” and a “thief.”) She’d also broken her racket. It cost her a game, and she lost the match to Naomi Osaka, who then tearfully apologized to the crowd.
[For more on this story by Maya Salam, go to https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...ncollection%2Fhealth]
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