A Woman for Our Time
Here’s Serena Williams
spouting profanities at the U.S. Open. This is crude behavior in a man, but in a woman it represents something altogether different. This is what feminism has given us: aggression, testosterone, and iron biceps. Just another pampered athlete? A friend of mine was recently driving on a major highway when a woman rear-ended her. My friend got out of the car. She mentioned she had called the police to file an insurance report. The woman threw her against the door of her vehicle and began strangling her and yelling profanities. My friend was saved by a man who was driving by and stopped to pull the crazed woman off of her.
Credits: Brunskill/Getty
Brenda H. writes:
Ugh!!!! And this is attractive?….this is what we’re supposed to tell our daughters to aspire to? I pray that I live long enough to see the trend shift the other way, where gentlemanly & ladylike behavior was the norm for our uber athletes.
Laura writes:
Serena has been criticized for her behavior, but I find even the normal demeanour and appearance of many women athletes disturbing. I wouldn’t be caught dead in one of those tennis outfits, especially if I had thighs the size of tree trunks and the musculature of Hercules. It’s modern-day gladiator wear. How long before women are actualy wrestling lions in the ring? We live in a culture that widely approves of aggression in women and these athletes are just the most noticeable aspect of the phenomenon.
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