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Gulbis incurs the wrath of Stephanie Myles.

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What exactly does it have to with feminism? :stupid: It's a tabloid way of making a controversial headline out of nothing whatsoever. Why would anyone with a brain eat it up and spread the non-existent controversy to forums and such is the real question.

To sum up what was actually said. Gulbis wouldn't advise his sisters to become pros, doesn't think it's a good life for a woman. It appears one of them disagrees and might try it nevertheless. Big story, no.
 
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:facepalm: at people not even seeing the wrong of what Gulbis says. That quote seems taken right from 19th century. Don't you realize that you could say the same about ANY type of professional commitment? So it would mean that the fate of women would be to raise children and occasionally exercise a recreational / socializing job? Nice society indeed...
 
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It's a bit different, in tennis you have to travel so that makes it tough to raise Kids whereas as a business women at least you are in the same place and can hire a Nanny during the day. It does create problems you can't deny that.


What exactly does it have to with feminism? :stupid: It's a tabloid way of making a controversial headline out of nothing whatsoever. Why would anyone with a brain eat it up and spread the non-existent controversy to forums and such is the real question.

To sum up what was actually said. Gulbis wouldn't advise his sisters to become pros, doesn't think it's a good life for a woman. It appears one of them disagrees and might try it nevertheless. Big story, no.
Stephanie Myles is a feminist that is what I'm referring to.
 
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Mugbis should receive a fine for his comments. :yeah:

No doubt he would in the American sports leagues.
 
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There is a difference between Feminism and FemiNazism. Feminists want equal treatment for men and women. I am all for that. FemiNazi's masquerade as feminists but they hate men and think if we kill all men, everything in the world would be solved.
 
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Believing that women are entitled to decide whether or not they want to have children young (if at all) or have some kind of career first, is not hating men, nor wanting to kill all men. Calling out someone who announces publicly that the choices they have made for themselves would be no good for women, because they shouldn't want those things, is not FemiNazism.

It's basic common sense for anyone vaguely intelligent who isn't living two hundred years ago.

If he'd said that he knows his sisters want a family, so they'd find it tough, that would be fine. Instead, he decided he knows what would make women really happy, and that's staying at home with children, not playing tennis.

Mirka got injured and had to retire.
She manages combine motherhood with a life on the tennis tour. Just because she's not actually playing tennis doesn't mean she's not doing all of the travelling that is apparently impossible for the women Gulbis knows.

Exactly. I cannot believe some of the things we are reading here, and this is exactly why we need feminism :facepalm: Yes it is his opinion, and opinions can be misogynist and racist and while I don't believe he had bad intentions, his comments does have a lot of tinges of sexism. Why should women be more worried than men about raising and focusing on settling down with a family? Because being present for your family is solely a woman's role? Not a man's? This line of though definitely harks back to the "women belong in the kitchen" line of thinking which is definitely sexist. And anyway, it's a decision women should be able to make for themselves if they want a family or not. The reasons he mentioned are stupid.
Well said.

He also forgets that for a lot of women on the tour, they've come from much more humble backgrounds than him. If they have a successful career, they could retire in their late twenties and never need to work again, at which point they could take a few years off from any kind of work to properly dedicate themselves to their children. Most women don't have that luxury.
 
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Technology is advancing. In the future, we will have artificial wombs so women wouldn't have to give up 9 months o their life to make children.
 
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Agreed, she's an absolute hack.

Hopefully with the rise of tennis in Canada with recent successes and exposure, it will also bring real, professional and credible journalists to the sport.
 
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Completely agree with WinterIsComing. The mindset behind of what Gulbis said is extremely outdated.

Women can have it tough as well, they don't have to be protected or be limited to certain roles in society.
 
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It was sexist in that casual way so many are (the defenses of sexism are hilarious on here though and explain why feminism arose in the first place) and moreover Gulbis likely knew the reaction his words would provoke because it's his interview "controversies" are a big part of how he gets the validation he seeks.

MTF and the constant bashing of the WTA reveal a lot of deeply rooted insecurities some on here have.
 
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It was sexist in that casual way so many are (the defenses of sexism are hilarious on here though and explain why feminism arose in the first place) and moreover Gulbis likely knew the reaction his words would provoke because it's his interview "controversies" are a big part of how he gets the validation he seeks.

MTF and the constant bashing of the WTA reveal a lot of deeply rooted insecurities some on here have.
And how did it arose and who funded it? Get the F out of here. True feminism has been around for a long time. The "new" feminist movement is not always following that goal. That equality. You can bad rep all you want, but you people who make big controversies out of every little thing are cancer for our societies. Gulbis is no saint, but people like you are worse. I would take his comments more seriously if English was his first language. What he said was dumb but so what?

You bad rep me for saying Feminism and FemiNazism are different. So then you believe they are the same? Shame on you
 
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If Rafa said this or even implied such toughts, there would be moutiny here.

But this rich bratt can say anything.
 
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Rafa would never say anything like that even if he believed it. He has a good PR team around him. The same for Roger and other top players
 
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Stephanie Myles is always stirring shit up to get attention. Always bashing players with bias and unprofessional journalism. She's even so arrogant she once claimed on Twitter that every one who questions her journalism on Twitter sucks up to her at tournaments. I would certainly tell her that I find her journalism unprofessional and bias.
 
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