Elle Beau ❇︎
1 min readFeb 20, 2024

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It doesn't matter whether or not he was offended. A much younger, much larger man who ostensibly works for him body slammed him and then towered over him screaming explatives in his face because he didn't get his way. Why are you trying to justify that as being OK? If he'd done that to a player on the other team or the other coach, he would have gotten a penalty for unsportsmanlike behavior. Feeling adrenaline is one thing. Not having enough self control to behave appropriately in the face of that adrenaline is another. I doubt you would tolerate your horse trying to bite you or to buck you just because it was feeling some adrenaline.

When Serena Williams slammed her tennis racket down in frustration, the sporting world went crazy. She didn't threaten the line judge or anyone else with it. She didn't loom over him screaming in his face. She simply slammed her racket down in frustration, but that wasn't OK for a woman to do, particularly not a Black woman - and yet you and other people seem to want to normalize that it's OK for men to physically crash into somebody who is smaller, weaker, and much older than they are and scream in their face because they didn't get their way. Seems like a silly and dangerous position to continue to keep justifying.

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Elle Beau ❇︎
Elle Beau ❇︎

Written by Elle Beau ❇︎

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint. I do not feel ashamed. I'm your hell, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between.

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