Feminism | Posted by Julie Z on 06/30/2009
Oh Wimbledon
Wimbledon. I had respect for you. With your penchant for serving tea and strawberries with cream while watching non contact sports instead of artery-blocking glorified fat while watching supposedly heterosexual men throw themselves on one another. I admired you for glorifying the one sport I can adequately play without looking like a complete ass.
But now, apparently Wimbledon has had a change of heart in the “classy” department. They’re putting unseeded and low-ranked women on the best courts (Maria Sharapova- unseededand ranked 60th, Gisela Dulko -unseeded, ranked 45th) because they’re cute instead of the powerhouses like Serena Williams (seeded 2nd) and Svetlana Kuznetsova (seeded 5th). Because Maria Sharapova’s modeling career has been infinitely more successful than her tennis career she gets preference over women who are actually talented tennis players. …
