Tennis Related - Off Court Serious Issues

[skatingfan]

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[ti-amie]

I didn't think that it was possible to make the WTA site worse than it was but they've somehow managed to do it. SMH

[ponchi101]

Indeed. Tried to find the draw for Korea. Was not even able to find the TOURNAMENT in the THE TOUR tab. Had to do a search.

[ti-amie]

So Taylor Townsend followed her baffling remarks about women in SA with this gem.



She has since been forced to issued an apology. I wonder if she understands that what she said was insulting and yes, racist.



Maybe she should look into the offal enslaved people were fed and somehow made into a cuisine. The Netflix show "High on the Hog" might be a good place for her to start.

[Owendonovan]

The roll she was on has ended.

[ponchi101]

This has to stop. It was just a silly comment, about food. Yes, we can say their food is weird. They think our food is weird. We (both sides) can laugh about it.
I am in Iraq. Here, they have their yogurt with salt. I put honey in mine. One Iraqi saw it and said "yuck, that is wrong!".
I laughed, he laughed. Nothing more happened.

[ti-amie]

Not to beat a dead horse but here are the other offerings that were available to Ms Townsend. I understand what Ponchi is saying but look at it this way:
You're on a business trip. All expenses paid. The host provides a buffet that they hoped would satisfy everyone invited to the "conference". Instead of choosing from the food that was provided for you you seek out and mock food that was not meant for you. It's a major faux-pas.

Maybe she has a private account and messed up? That's all I'm going to give her.

[ti-amie]

[ti-amie]

Bjorn Borg about the Sinner drug case: "My generation, I know some players, they were using things they were not supposed to use.... I think I was very surprised when I read that (about Sinner). I think it happened twice. I mean if it happened one time…but it happened twice, that's very strange."

[ashkor87]

This has to stop. It was just a silly comment, about food. Yes, we can say their food is weird. They think our food is weird. We (both sides) can laugh about it.
I am in Iraq. Here, they have their yogurt with salt. I put honey in mine. One Iraqi saw it and said "yuck, that is wrong!".
I laughed, he laughed. Nothing more happened.

totally agree.. too much is being made of what are essentially silly comments, to be laughed off. Everyone is too easily offended these days.

[skatingfan]

Too many people going on social media these days trying to pull clout, and money by dunking on the cultures of others by framing things in a particular manner that makes the other look bad.

[JTContinental]

Anecdotally, while I loved my visit to China, I also experienced a pretty high degree of culture shock about more than just the food.

[ponchi101]

I was in Vietnam. We wanted some really, really native food.
We got it.
We did not even know how to start eating it. The waiter, looking at our faces, laughed and made gestures of how we were to supposed to do it.
We thanked him, he laughed at us. We laughed with him.
And that day, the food was not great. It was just Ok. And THAT was Ok.