Meanwhile, we're still not over Serena Williams at the U.S. Open.
, thanking Williams for calling out the double standard and adding: “More voices are needed to do the same.”
Unfortunately, however accurate and important that call to action may be, it has not yet culminated it its desired effect. If it had, we wouldn’t still be having the same debates over and over again. The battle of the sexes—in tennis, and countless other spheres—wages on. That there is a double standard for men and women when it comes to emotional expression is a fact so deeply enmeshed in our cultural fabric that it’s hard to know where to begin pulling the thread.
, she wrote about how the response to her reaction at the Grand Slam had a continued affect on her emotional state. At night, questions churned in her head: “What could I have done better? Was I wrong to stand up?” Clarity finally arrived in the form of a note from Osaka, the young player who had won that day. “People can misunderstand anger for strength because they can’t differentiate between the two,” it said.
What’s remarkable isn’t that these two women went through complex emotional processing after an incident that will likely continue to come up in discussions about their careers. What’s remarkable is how male players like Kyrgios move forward without having to rehash or atone. Kyrgios, who is a force and a formidable talent on the court, will play on, continuing to attract large audiences and, more than likely, headlines about unsportsmanlike incidents on the court.
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