[Other Sport] Poor Serena

[hans kraay fan club]

That small figure in a baseball cap with blonde highlighted hair sticking out of the back of it is Sharapova-like? OK, whatever. It just looks like a small figure in a baseball cap with blonde highlighted hair sticking out (i.e. Williams opponent) to me.

okay mate

You'll see what you want to see.

 

[LlcoolJ]

Never mind, the Ryder Cup its on its way soon. Thankfully not in the US this time, but presumably there'll still be a contingent of red-faced overweight Yanks bellowing "Get in da hole" into the Europeans' faces.

"Mashed potato!". Wankers.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Oh lord.

The umpire is 'white', yes, but nothing like the colouring the artist has chosen with which to represent him.

The opponent figure is very, very clearly NOT a sketch of Naomi Osaka. Osaka is a stocky black girl, not a tall blonde white girl, with long blonde hair.

We may as well stop here, because it is impossible to have a rational exchange with somebody who will LITERALLY argue that black is white.

You really have no idea how caricatures work. Like truly clueless.


Out of interest did you take issue when this show was on TV?

 

[mikeyjh]

That small figure in a baseball cap with blonde highlighted hair sticking out of the back of it is Sharapova-like? OK, whatever. It just looks like a small figure in a baseball cap with blonde highlighted hair sticking out (i.e. Williams opponent) to me.

She looks a hell of a lot more like Sharapova than Osaka! But that doesn't matter, so long as we capture Williams with massive lips and a huge afro - Caricatures of black people, not of Serena Williams. Who'd have thunk that News Corp would be behind that....

 

[Triggaaar]

So J K Rowling says this cartoon is racist and people are losing their shit over it.

Seems spot on.

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Why has Osaka been depicted with blonde hair?

Edit - I see you replied to the same question above, claiming it's because she has some highlights

 

[Pavilionaire]

She looks a hell of a lot more like Sharapova than Osaka! But that doesn't matter, so long as we capture Williams with massive lips and a huge afro - Caricatures of black people, not of Serena Williams. Who'd have thunk that News Corp would be behind that....

The depiction of Serena is a sideshow. By whitening Osaka and the umpire the artist is really providing a critique on the inability of Caucasians to challenge the behaviour of black sporting icons.

 

[sussex_guy2k2]

TV coverage shows a disrespectful American crowd, some draped in Stars & Stripes, ruining the winner's moment. The crowd were anti the oveseas winner and anti the umpire. The commentators have said that she hasn't even smiled. There's harmless patriotism and there's brute, rude nationalism.

Isn't she half American?

 

[drew]

Isn't she half American?

Haitian dad Japanese mum but has lived in US since the age of 3.

 

[Surf's Up]

Caricature drawings of Afro Caribbean people should me made illegal because, by the very nature of caricatures their outstanding facial and other features will be blown up

 

[melias shoes]

okay mate

You'll see what you want to see.

So do you.

 

[drew]

Caricature drawings of Afro Caribbean people should me made illegal because, by the very nature of caricatures their outstanding facial and other features will be blown up

So you think that should apply to cartoons of any ethnic individual, ie everyone!

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

The depiction of Serena is a sideshow. By whitening Osaka and the umpire the artist is really providing a critique on the inability of Caucasians to challenge the behaviour of black sporting icons.

Isn't the cartoon making a general point about Serena's appalling lack of sportswomanship and tendency to throw her toys out of the pram when things don't go her way? The match against Osaka wasn't exactly the first time this sort of thing has happened. So the cartoonist has drawn a generic female tennis player rather than Naomi Osaka.

 

[Easy 10]

Caricatures must be banned immediately. How DARE they exaggerate peoples natural features to create a cartoon resemblance.

Next time I'm down Las Ramblas, I'm going to give the first caricature street artist I see a damn good shoeing. Its just not acceptable in 2018 is it.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Caricature drawings of Afro Caribbean people should me made illegal because, by the very nature of caricatures their outstanding facial and other features will be blown up

That's rather patronising, isn't it? Equal rights and equality surely means that people of all races can be lampooned and caricatured equally. Obama was caricatured, Mugabe has been caricatured, everyone is fair game. Political cartoonists can't depict Diane Abbott?.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Isn't the cartoon making a general point about Serena's appalling lack of sportswomanship and tendency to throw her toys out of the pram when things don't go her way? The match against Osaka wasn't exactly the first time this sort of thing has happened. So the cartoonist has drawn a generic female tennis player rather than Naomi Osaka.

Maybe it is meant to be a 'generic opponent' (though our Australian friend has assured us it definitely IS Osaka, due to her 'highlights'). I don't believe that is the case though, tbh - if that were so, why go to the trouble of making the event the US Open?

 

[Pretty Plnk Fairy]

She looks a hell of a lot more like Sharapova than Osaka!

im sad now as was all ready to crack one off if she was like sharepova but took a look and strugled to manage a semi

Regards
DR

 

[GT49er]

okay mate

You'll see what you want to see.

Well, you certainly did - in spades!

 

[clippedgull]

The opponent figure is very, very clearly NOT a sketch of Naomi Osaka. Osaka is a stocky black girl, not a tall blonde white girl, with long blonde hair.

You just had to bring Katie into it!

 

[The Rivet]

Serena Williams Caricatures are no different from when satire started in antiquity. Stupid perpetually offended eejiots!

 

[GT49er]

She looks a hell of a lot more like Sharapova than Osaka! But that doesn't matter, so long as we capture Williams with massive lips and a huge afro - Caricatures of black people, not of Serena Williams. Who'd have thunk that News Corp would be behind that....

Really? I'm not sure Sharapova would be too pleased to think that. But, serious question - just how should the artist have caricatured Williams? Difficult to avoid the fact that she is a black woman, wouldn't you agree?