Serena made personal threats against the umpire.  An NBA player would have been immediately ejected if they issued personal insults against the character of a referee or repeatedly issued demands for an immediate apology for a call from an NBA referee.

Serena was fined $82,000 and put on probation some years back for threatening a female lineman ('shove a ball down her throat") for calling her for a foot fault. Not normal for guys, and even if it is, it's not OK.

Serena said he would ban this umpire from her future matches, not surprising the umpires are responding. It's not sexism racism or motherism.

I said two days ago: You criticize an organization and it's policies off the court and have prepared data and input from other contestants and umpire representation.

Serena is a professional and a role model, she didn't behave like it.

Yeah, well, boycotting her matches would be an idiotic idea.  They'd be responding to Serena's abusive behavior with unprofessional behavior of their own.  The only circumstances I can think of that might even bring boycotting her, or any player's, matches into play would be if she or they physically attacked a chair umpire.  And even then, a boycott would not be a sensible response.  Undoubtedly if that were ever to happen, with a woman or man, it would--and should-- draw a suspension, possibly a lengthy one, depending in part on the player's history. 

The very real problem of double standards for women and men is absolutely something that can be addressed by providing meaningful, explicit guidance for chair umpires, coaches, and players on what the single code of conduct for women and men alike is.  And assigning one or more persons with the tours to monitor regularly chair umpire decisions and address situations with particular chair umpires early on when they become apparent.  Hardly impossible to do any of that.  But they have to pay attention and notice for any of that to happen.  Instead we are witnessing all these recriminations back and forth instead of just dealing with the problem.

Here's one person hoping the tennis authorities just own the problem, face up to it, stop being so damned defensive, and go about dealing with it, keeping the players, coaches, umpires and fans informed and providing plenty of opportunity to hear all sides before they make their decisions.  

I certainly hope that the single standard will move towards less tolerance for abusive, unprofessional conduct by players, male and female.  It's unfortunate for the tennis tours that evidently it has taken what happened this past weekend to get the institution to move on this.  Eventually something like this was going to happen if they continued to fail to deal with it.  So, in a sense, they got what they deserved for not dealing it earlier when they should have.  

Some may view the Saturday events partially through a "well-behaved women seldom make history lens."  From that perspective, even if Serena's behavior Saturday, her way of pursuing her grievance, is considered unprofessional or inappropriate, it is believed to be possibly necessary to bring about overdue attention to the code conduct double standards issue.  This is because of the way change efforts often play out--slowly and/or accompanied by a great deal of resistance, if they make any headway at all.   

And so to insist on prim and proper conduct at all times tilts the playing field against less powerful actors, or those who are seeking to change established practices. 

The article and book by that name that generated the t-shirts one sees around these days apparently had a different meaning from its current t-shirt use.  

Author Laurel Thatcher Ulrich was examining how women in the past challenged the way history was written. 

The cultural meaning the phrase has taken on today is encouragement for more unapologetic, less demure female voice and assertiveness in public matters of sorts which historically have often been rejected, resisted or ignored in proper company or by officialdom.  Implicit from the t-shirt wording is encouragement of such voice and assertiveness, even where it may sometimes (at least) be less-than-well-behaved.   

As I noted upthread, as always with pro-sports, when something gets this much buzz, this is going to move on to branding and endorsements, and sure nuff​---

I saw this on my twitter feed, a professional Adidas ad targeting a feminist audience and starting with a black woman narrator "here to create change" but moving on to girls all colors and not mentioning color:

So I think: hmmm, wassup with that. I went to look up that which I didn't know and found that Nike has a deal with Serena, a full line collection.

And then I googled Osaka and Adidas and I got this:

Naomi Osaka is reportedly set to sign Adidas' biggest deal with a female athlete — and it could make her one of the highest-paid women in sports

@ Business Insider, 5  hrs. ago

The REAL game is now on!