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the line between not going out as an act of self-care and not going out as a symptom of depression is but a gossamer thread
John Lennon and George Harrison at the launch party for the Apple boutique, December 5, 1967.
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Fucker stole my seat
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anxiety: everyone hates u
me: idk i dont think that-
anxiety: everyone hates u and ur mad ugly
me: damn u right :/
I used to think I was being too picky but fuck that. I deserve someone who wants to know about me. It may sound silly but I don’t wanna be out here fucking with people who never ask my favorite color or if I ate today. I deserve someone who wants to hear my dreams just as much as I want to hear theirs. I deserve the same energy and effort I release. Fuck that.
People scared to call Serena the greatest athlete ever, proves sexism and misogyny has gone nowhere. Never seen an athlete as dominant as her.
Can someone compare her to Jordan/Kobe so I can get an idea?
@fedupblackwoman @pharaohmangos you can’t compare her to jordan or kobe. she’s better than both of them combined.
let’s go by sport. in basketball, wins, and therefore championships (rings) are determined by the strength, stamina and skill of your TEAM, then by the same measurements of your star player. example: lebron was the most dominant player in the league in the early 2000s, but was on a bootyass team, which is why he took them to the finals multiple years and lost, which forced him to go to a better TEAM (miami heat) to win. you could also do the same comparison with allen iverson, kobe before he got shaq, the bulls before they traded for dennis rodman and others, etc. etc.
in tennis, wins and therefore championships (grand slams) are determined by the strength, will, stamina, and skill of ONE PLAYER. Serena winning BY HERDAMNSELF. and not just once or twice, consecutively across multiple tournaments throughout the calendar year. so you can go multiple ways with this argument; Serena plays longer, all her statistical win shares are based more on her than on jordan or kobe (even in doubles tennis because you’re only adding one other person to the statistic of who helps win games more).
“…well mike and kobe have multiple rings in a super competitive sport where it’s hard to go back-to-back, so–”
^ infinitely sit. take the whole seat. put your ass in this here L-shaped chair, my nigga.
Serena has 22 grand slams, which we’ve already determined with the aforementioned comparison in the difficulty between the sports that they’re harder to attain than rings in an ~100 game nba season (that number includes a rough estimate of a playoff run). she has 11 more championships than jordan and kobe combined. them two niggas would need the legendary william fenton “bill” russell’s 11 rings to just match the amount of championships Serena has currently – and the ability to even say that isn’t going to last long; she will win at least one other grand slam before she retires.
statistics wise, let’s go by all time NBA finals stats vs. Serena’s all time grand slam finals stats, to make it ‘fair’ for kobe and jordan. regular season doesn’t really count the way playoffs do, anyway – they aren’t elimination games like tennis tourneys are (tennis is 1 and done, so you can’t lose – not even once – if you want to make it to the finals and play to win grand slams), whereas in basketball, it’s a first-to-4 games situation (you have to beat a team 4 times to move ahead/win the championship).
Serena is 22-6 all time – that’s an 78.57% win percentage (.786 approx. for you basketball niggas)
kobe is 5-2 – that’s 71.42% (.714): a threepeat from 2000-2002 and repeat championships in 2009 and 2010.
jordan is a perfect 6-0, 100% (1.000), and he won those rings in 2 threepeats (’91-’93 and ‘96-’98 – one ring per season/year).
^Serena won three championships in one year. TWICE. (’02: French Open, Wimbledon, and US Open and ‘15: Australian Open, French Open & Wimbledon).
Serena Jameka Williams is very easily the greatest tennis player who ever lived, one of the winningest, most dominant athletes of all time, and one of the greatest athletes ever, far ahead of jordan and kobe. muhammad ali is tied with her for greatest athlete ever tbh.
