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From: peony Category: Art Date: 06 July 2008 Time: 08:42 AM Review: Yeah but they ARE muscular and their muscularity is distinctive. It's not the only distinctive feature of their game but for someone who doesn't follow tennis, like myself, the strength of their physical appearance (height and muscles) is a salient characteristic. The Russians are stereotyped too (willowy). Hey, tennis is a game that belongs to a society based on stereotypes of physical appearance, I think this racism you speak of is part of that whole package. Anyway, I'm getting fucking fed up of people telling me how racist everything is all the time, it's too easy an explanation, it's alienating and I'm noticing it's making me harbour vaguely racist thoughts, based on anger and frustration.