Tumblr is fucking stupid because a lot of y’all think that white people invented sexism and taught it to men of colour. Lol right okay black and brown women have been treated like shit waaaayy before Cracker Von Patriarch III came along and handed out smallpox and Bibles
This is outrageous. How can someone draw a cartoon like this in this day and age and have it published in a major newspaper??
What the shitting goddamn fuck.
Reality:
She put her arm around Osaka to comfort her, and implored the pro-Serena crowd, which was still ticked because chair umpire Carlos Ramos gave her a severe game penalty in the second set of her 6-2, 6-4 loss to Osaka, to stop with the Bronx cheer.
“She just won,” Williams said after the presentation. “I felt like, wow, this isn’t how I felt when I won my first Grand Slam. I definitely don’t want her to feel like that.”
– Time.com
Male cartoonist decides to draw a racist caricature of Williams, completely erase Osaka’s likeness and invoke the age-old sexist idea that women don’t get along.
The guy who did this is a DICK and is standing by it despite being called out internationally. Highly encourage people to make formal complaints to the paper about it.
You’d think the above was just a short-hand crowd shot, except:
This is the front page of the paper tomorrow.
It’s the Murdoch press, in Australia they are virtually untouchable.
They own the government and ignore the press council and pretty much
print whatever crap they want to with no consequences for their actions.
if you can’t write a political cartoon without immediately reaching for racist tropes, perhaps you don’t belong in the business.
if you can’t write a political cartoon without immediately reaching for racist tropes, you’re probably an employee of Rupert Murdoch (NewsCorp, Fox News, etc.).
Big Mean Sweaty Dyke 