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Re: wimbledon womens final: the racism against the william sisters

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. 


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