…or so says Greg Couch, a Sporting News reporter and former Chicago Sun-Times columnist who said Serena Williams’ new Twitter avatar, featuring the tennis star in her underwear, “suggested something about common sense and hypocrisy.” In a classic case of blaming the victim, Couch says the photo is “reckless” and “might not be too far off” from someone filming Erin Andrews through a peephole. But he makes sure to mention that it was “sexy.” Okay.
From Couch’s rant:
It’s a sexy photo, she looks great and it’s not pornographic. To be honest, I would actually find it to be somewhat artistic if it weren’t for the serious business of stalking women. What was her message anyway? What was she trying to say? Just this: Look at me.
Instead, what she was saying was this: Peep at me, but don’t stalk me.
Huh?
Yeah, really. Huh? What is it about former Chicago Sun-Times columnists? Is there a “do you hate women, yes/no” question on the application?
Couch was quick to explain that his column wasn’t intended to blame the victim, he’s just saying she’s asking for it because of the way she dresses. He also jumped on Twitter to explain that he works for the Sporting News, but that this column is personal, and not for the Sporting News. If the stalker had gotten into her house and killed her, would Couch be asking how her death will affect the U.S. Open? The Sporting News is always trying to be like ESPN these days.
Also funny/awful is this little nugget.
Still, Anna Kournikova, Maria Sharapova and Ana Ivanovic photos are never quite as gritty as Serena’s.
Say, what’s the major difference between those three skinny light-skinned girls and Serena Williams? I’m just asking on behalf of my own blog, not With Leather.
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I like to fuck with you from time to time and call you racist on wrestling posts, because it’s fun/random and people get up in arms about it. But Jesus… the undertones in Couch’s article are fucking racist.
“Look, Serena — guys wouldn’t send you notes with cut-up magazine letters if you just dressed in sweatpants.”
This is just shy of the line Steigerwald crossed in the Bryan Stow column.
I’m not really sure what point Couch was trying to get across anyway. That she should stay inside and avoid cameras more? This seems more like a bid for attention than an actual argument being made.
He’s one of those idiots that takes the stance that women are asking to get raped if they wear a low-cut dress isn’t he?
…wow. I don’t even know what he’s trying to say here but I am certain that I don’t like it.
He went on to add that he liked Serena’s pictures more than Ivanovic et al’s because they were “more savage and animalistic”
What do I have to do to get a job blogging about sports? I mean, this mudflap obviously doesn’t even understand what hypocrisy is (it’s professing a belief or standard and then acting in a way contrary to that profession), which is completely inapplicable to a situation involving a voluntary posting of a sort-of-sexy picture to a personal account, and, y’know, not wanting a total stranger to repeatedly, unwantedly show up at your work and home because of a delusion that he’s in love with you. Seriously, I have a dictionary and can actually make a rational, cogent argument, why is this man getting paid for this garbage?
moar SW pics plz lol
If it was a white tennis star he’d love it!!!!
I love when people say women are asking to be raped by dressing slutty. I’m sure some people do believe that, but what I think most people mean is that women have to understand there are consequences to actions. I’m sure when people feed the bears, they aren’t asking the bear to eat their hand, but they have to understand that some bear might eat their hand, and then it’s up to them to decide if the consequences are worth it. That being said, anyone wanna get raped?