Is Sexism Really To Blame For Serena Williams' Penalties?

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🗓️ 10 September 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Serena Williams broke the rules and was penalized for it but she says that men get away with breaking the rules all the time. Following the match she decried what she says is sexism and many agree. However when I look into archives I can see that Serena has a history of bad behavior, men do get penalized, and so do other women. Why would this incident be worse than others? Is this an incident of unreasonable feminist "social just warriors" in action or a just and honorable call out of bigoted behavior from the ump? Sexism in Tennis does exist and we have even seen recent examples, but is it fair to say this incident was the same? Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In her last US Open Final, Serena Williams broke the rules.
0:04.0	Three rules actually.
0:05.0	The first was when she was accused of coaching.
0:08.0	This is when her coach was sitting in the stands and doing hand signals to tell her essentially
0:12.2	what to do, coaching her.
0:13.6	And that is against the rules.
0:14.7	The next came when she smashed her racket, and then she started insulting the umpire.
0:19.2	She was docked for this, first a point, and then a whole game.
0:23.3	Afterwards she said that this was sexism, because men have done so much worse and gotten
0:28.3	away with it.
0:29.5	Why is it that when she has about a frustration, she gets penalized?
0:33.7	Now, a lot of people are agreeing with her and saying this is sexism.
0:37.0	In fact, some people within the WTA might actually be agreeing with her as well.
0:41.2	But in my personal opinion, this is not sexism.
0:43.5	It may be personal.
0:45.0	It may be a specific incident, and sometimes umpires don't behave the same in all circumstances.
0:50.8	People are different.
0:51.9	One umpire might give one person a warning.
0:53.8	This umpire might say Serena, I'm not going to deal with your BS, and I'm going to penalize
0:58.0	you for this.
0:59.3	There are articles to back up my opinion.
1:01.9	But it can be wrong.
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