Serena Williams says she has been UNDERPAID and UNDERVALUED

The Unkle wrote:

Moron#5 wrote:

Why is she not a member of the ruling class?

Big picture? Wrong tribe.

Details -- does not own mass media outlets nor Social media monopolies and is not part of a group that puts billions of $$ into politics and thus owns Congress

Do you know where Serena William's money is invested? She probably does own stock of mass media or social media corporations. She probably also owns stock in all other major industries which make political donations. I think it is safe to say that anyone with hundreds of millions indirectly lobbies Congress and is part of the ruling class.

Does it matter where the wealth is invested? Are Kochs (natural resources), Waltons (retail), Zuckerberg (social media), Bloomberg (financial services), Musk (electrical vehicles) more or less of the ruling class because of the industry they own? No, it's how much is invested, rather than the asset allocation.

Williams is a member of the ruling class because she has accumulated a fortune (hundreds of millions) which itself provides a fortune in investment income. If invested prudently, she'll earn millions or perhaps tens of millions annually from investments.

She earns income from tennis. But similarly CEOs and billionaire founders usually earn a salary. Neither need to, as they can live on their wealth instead.

One of the highest paid female athletes of all time, who makes more money than 99.999999% people will ever see in their life is the height of entitlement and greed. She's the most decorated and until last year was the highest paid female athlete of all time - what more could she possibly want? I think what this is all about is Naomi Osaka (another tennis player, who by the way, is not white) surpassing her for highest paid female athlete, which if true only reveals what a petty narcissist she really is. And then she tries to play the race card to try and garner sympathy and pressure sponsors to pay her more in order to avoid looking racist. Really ugly behavior.

Agreed.

It comes back to this and it's this simple.

"underpaid and undervalued" are simply figments of her imagination because it's not even close to reality. In order to justify this mental proposition she has herself developed, she uses confirmation biases underlined by race and gender - the most obvious, easiest to apply and most difficult for anyone to counter because they are the most emotional and socially sensitive topics we face as humans.

This is the really sad part - what people like Serena don't understand, is that their behavior actually sets back the pushes for equality in things like race and gender in sports (and outside sports too). Her narcissism and self-importance completely blinds her from this reality. So while Serena seems hell-bent on making herself a victim that won't change anything - (she's not going to make any more money or get any more respect) she devalues true sexism and racism and actually creates the resistance to be open to recognizing and addressing it.

Now, she is on the cusp of retirement and at least for me, while recognizing her excellence as the best female player ever and one of the greatest to ever do it irrespective of gender, her legacy to me will be as an angry, temperamental whiner who managed to find ways to complain about almost anything. Is that 100% who she is? Of course not - but in the same way she manufactured these baseless claims in her own mind, she manufactured this outward facing image that I would guess has stuck with many a sports fan. Tragic.

Couldn't have said it better myself. I think one of the unfortunate consequences of western society's current goals of social justice is that we have inadvertently reinforced victimhood, which opens the doors for people like Serena to take advantage and cash in, making it even more difficult to identify true victims and those just looking for a handout.

She sounds like a straight up incompetent retard.

What else is new? This is normal.

This video was from 2018. Does anyone know if this ref was at any of her matches after this?

I think what she sounds like is just a person who has lived a life indoctrinated with this fear that everyone is out to get her, bring her down, hold her back. I mean this shouldn't be a surprise given the insanity of Richard Williams is well known.

And sure, that is a very effective tactic in creating and forging athletic, focus, fight and determination but at the same time it's not great for creating ways to effectively to deal with moments of perceived conflict on an inter-personal or emotional level. In the video above all Serena sees is a "combatant" out to get her, bring her down, hold her back so she simply acts in the only way she knows how - be aggressive, defensive and fight back.

Throw in that because of her status as an all-time great athlete nobody has probably ever, ever been real with her and pointed this and even if they had been, the levels of entitlement she has been enabled to reach sees her probably just shut down at the notion she's not perfect - I mean its all understandable.

Thing is even though I find her insufferable and have done for years now, I actually have a lot of sympathy for her knowing that despite the physical excellence she has the mental capacity of a small child. I hope in her retirement she can find some joy in life and understand she doesn't need to be a victim because she isn't one at all.

Nice summation.

Let me add another angle: It is free market economics that brings millions of dollars into the sport but she wants a special carve out because free market negotiations failed her.

I think most everyone here understands exactly what limits her endorsement income and it doesn't have anything to do with race.

appleswan wrote:

One true GOAT wrote:

Michael Jordan was a young black athlete in the 80s and 90s and he was in a relationship with a young black woman. Yet he was incredibly marketable and popular. Who didn't want to be like Mike?!?

Yes, but Michael Jordan was the best player arguably ever, Beckham wasn't.

He made the most of his talent and all power to him. But would a black David Beckham even be perceived as handsome and youthful? Black athletes are obviously considered attractive but very much in a different way with the focus on their physicality.

But Beckham had incredible crossover marketing chops as he was married to one of the Spice girls, and my sister says Beckham is very handsome. (I guess so, but his tats make me want to puke.)

Serena and Venus are the only elite American tennis players since Jim Courier to speak fluent French at Roland Garros. They work hard on and off the court to give the people (and tournament directors) what they want.

Salvitore Stitchmo wrote:

Glad this thread came back, one of my faves.

End of the day I believe the genus for all of this is still quite simple - the sad and tragic reality that Serena Williams lives a life where, despite a plethora of wealth and admiration, she would still rather focus on a phantom narrative that in some way she is a victim.

I think we as a society should be more concerned about why that is the case rather than bothering to concern ourselves with both qualitative and quantitative evidence about why she is full of sh$t on this particular and unsubstantiated "gripe".

I remember her being interviewed down here in Australia about the ‘Americans’ coming thru inspired by here. At the time there were a few young white and African Americans in the top 100 yet Serena only acknowledged the second of those groups. Serena is the greatest American women’s tennis player ever. Wouldn’t she inspire both groups?

With Osaka we have a successor who plays without tantrums, histrionics and screaming with every shot. (Same with Brady). The women's game will be watchable again. During the AO final I thought the sound on my TV wasn't working. But it was working fine.

And the after-match interviews are no longer cringeworthy displays of poor sportsmanship.

Celebs in LA must have trained her to believe that she has character and a personality and that she is " special "....

She looks like a macho tranny from India. Damn that sucks.

Right. Screaming at a ref to make an apology to her.. Who does that? Oh wait. Tons of people do. Example 2020 riots.

I wouldn't even give her credit enough to say that she even has a mental capacity. That's giving her a bit too much of a compliment there.

It's more like LAs little dumb puppet and the strings they placed in her head were activated at that point and she's just doing and saying what LA has "trained" her to say.

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