People are idiots, Leslie

30 | she/her/hers | Love tennis, The Pitt, Parks and Rec and other random stuff

[hybridcalisthenics]

You CAN do deep squats, my friend!

[soyala04]

I’ve seen a few of this guys vids (the pullup one most recently) floating around now and i cannot tell you how much i love them.

there’s so much emphasis on getting in shape and exercising, but it all just assumes that everyone can already do these exercises to begin with.

you need to build up your body’s muscles first and i will forever rage that PE/Gym class never teaches kids how

this man’s a pure blessing for breaking these exercises down to easier steps

[kosmogrl]

[channelslam]

Bring back 3/4 grass courts now

[janesurlife]

"In the basement of failures there's always more floors" my man is a tragic poet

[free-my-mindd]

[cadillacjohnf1]

women will never be able to use sport as an escape the same way that men can because in every sport there is a reminder of how much men hate women

[magicmooshka]

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

[misericordiia]

no matter how hard i try i will always be that little girl wondering why everyone is better friends with eachother than her and begging to be loved

[swaghassian]

what fans could and should do is recognize that their favourite athletes choose whether to praise zverev's slam or not for reasons of personal branding that have nothing to do with their personal relationship with him. for example, both carlos alcaraz and eva lys are allegedly on friendly terms with him, but lys won't post about his winning in her stories because that would be detrimental to her everybody-likes-her image, which is the main selling point of her marketability. while alcaraz would congratulate zverev in public because his brand is about being gracious with his peers, and also because he's carlos alcaraz. which gives him considerably more leverage than… being eva lys. given that every action made in the public eye by celebrities is a power move, making lists about “good” and “bad” people based on whether they made a congratulatory story yesterday is simply missing the mark.

[challengersdvd]

okay. still planning on generally keeping off this site for a few days as i’m sure many are but i’ve been ruminating on this and think it’s important to keep in mind. i apologize for talking about this continually because obviously, although important, can be triggering and/or painful to read so this will hopefully be my last post about it at least in my own words.

as we’re transitioning to a new surface in the season, i think while it’s so easy to paint grass as a clean slate where we can all move on from what’s happened these past two weeks, i think it’s also important to remember that this new surface doesn’t change anything about what’s happened, about the atp tour’s culpability and blatant complicity in normalizing misogynistic abuse. no matter who on the men’s side we see as our upcoming champions, no matter how many “good” champions or “good” results on the men’s side that we might see… it doesn’t erase the evils of the atp tour with their handling of cases like this and even our faves’ own enabling/silence on the matter. tennis cannot be “saved” by what happens next. i’m not saying we shouldn’t celebrate should things take a “better” turn as we move through the season, but i think it’s important to remember how we speak as the season continues and not to make light out of the seriousness and the pain that a win like this causes to those who’ve experienced abuse, and the pain that the tour’s blatant disregard for justice and safety inflicts every day.

[kindagaybro]

wow i can’t believe they cancelled the whole men’s roland garros final thats so crazy

[michelsens]

don’t be mad at flavio, jakub, or rafa for losing. don’t be mad at sincaraz or taylor fritz for not being there to beat him. be mad at the slams and the atp for allowing him to play, to be a public figure.

[partybarty]

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i always come back to this

[channelslam]

ive committed these monica seles teenager stats to heart by now but im still always shocked when i read them

[blans]

Maja Chwalinska, Roland Garros Finalist — photographed by Dan Istitene

[partybarty]

trying to have a productive weekend but can't help but feel sadness and anger in my heart about how protected terrible men are, especially in the sports world

there's a domestic abuser in a grand slam final, there's a sexual assaulter playing in the stanley cup finals, and one of the most celebrated footballers in the world is a rapist and will be playing in his sixth world cup next week

[mousemannation]

serious post time. concerning some thoughts ive had about zverev at LC. nothing too heavy but under the cut in case u just wanna scroll past.

i was talking to my mum about this and i think most of tennisblr share the same sentiment towards him so im not gonna be saying anything too radical. Its also not going to be super concise because im mostly spitballing here.

I was just thinking about how we talk about him and how we as a community navigate his presence on tour. I know that there's a vindictive joy that comes with seeing him lose that's especially potent since he basically got away with domestic violence scot free.

Seeing him lose is a good feeling because he clearly cares a lot and it feels like winning that he's upset, but it also doesn't actually mean anything in the scope of things. Obviously on some level if he lost enough he would no longer be relevant but it's inescapable that he is, unfortunately, very good at tennis. He's number 2 in the world. Call him a choker all you want, he's still vastly more successful that 99.9% of all tennis players.

But it's also just sport- a game. It's not the outcome of the match that amounts to anything outside of a very small community of people; its the celebrity, the money and clout and hero worship. The fact of the matter is it doesn't make a difference to the women he abused if he wins a match because he still abused them and he is still famous. He will always have been famous, even if he retires tomorrow. They will still interview him, laud him in press, put him in ads.

I just sometimes think- what right do I have to feel vindicated by his losses? To weigh his literal actual crimes against the outcome of some silly ball game? In a perfect world he would not be playing, he would be banned by the ITF and shunned publicly by his fellow players. He would not be invited to Laver Cup.

I won't say I don't look at tournament draws and hope for his early loss, but at least at tour events that means an early exit. I can't find it in myself to care if he wins or loses at Laver Cup, not really. Because he will still be there, he is still part of the team, he is still on the bench. It doesn't matter if he wins because he's still an abuser people paid thousands of dollars to watch play a game.