Having a child = incapable of cheating September 09, 2018 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 12,434 |
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I didn’t get coaching. I didn’t get coaching. I didn’t get coaching. You need to make an announcement that I didn’t get coaching. I don’t cheat. I didn’t get coaching. How can you say that? … You owe me an apology. You owe me an apology. I have never cheated in my life. I have a daughter, and I stand for what’s right for her. I’ve never cheated. You owe me an apology. You will never do another one of my matches.
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I’m here fighting for women’s rights and for women’s equality and for all kinds of stuff. For me to say ‘thief,’ and for him to take a game, it made me feel like it was a sexist remark. He’s never taken a game from a man because they said ‘thief.'
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I felt at one point bad because I’m crying and she’s crying. You know, she just won. I’m not sure if they were happy tears or they were just sad tears because of the moment. I felt like, wow, this isn’t how I felt when I won my first Grand Slam. I was like, wow, I definitely don’t want her to feel like that.
Yeah, maybe it was the mom in me that was like, listen, we got to pull ourselves together here.
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Is there one fucking adult on the planet who both has kids and is capable of doing things without referencing those kids when they are irrelevant to the activity at hand?
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Is there one fucking adult on the planet who both has kids and is capable of doing things without referencing those kids when they are irrelevant to the activity at hand?
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Her coach even admitted he was coaching from the side, so yes, the rule was broken. My heart absolutely broke for the winner, getting caught up in that bullshit.
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“I have never cheated in my life. I have a daughter and I stand for what’s right for her,” Williams snapped at the umpire, Carlos Ramos, after he docked points from her. There have been a lot of negative responses to this. “We do not live in Gilead. Motherhood is commonplace, not deserving of special privileges,” one sports writer wrote. (Is Gilead the bar for what women can object to now?) Worse, some thought Williams was suggesting that motherhood gave her some kind of moral superiority, making her an Andrea “as a mother” Leadsom of the tennis court.
But Williams wasn’t saying motherhood made her a saint – just that she tries to set a good example for her daughter, something she has spoken about often.
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I, like a lot of women, try not to talk too much about my kids, because I don’t want people to think I am now limited by them. And I’m not: I still do everything I did before they turned up, now plus everything else.
But I also feel a little sad that so many of us indulge in this charade, pretending we’re not mentally possessed by our children, because we are. Williams has jettisoned that pretence, talking about her daughter both off and, now, on the court.
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I don't have children, but I am going to start identifying as a parent. It's seems like a good get-out-of-jail-free card.
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