Serena Williams’ cries for equality — and all those who are joining the chorus on that note — are understandable, valid to a point even, but misplaced.
The greatest women’s tennis player of all time let her emotions get away from her during the women’s U.S. Open final and, when the umpire enforced the rules to her disadvantage, she and her chances of winning were hurt by it.
And now a whole lot of people, led by Williams, are protesting that penalization, calling it sexist because some male icons of the game have gotten away with similar shenanigans to the ones she pulled as she was losing to Naomi Osaka.