Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Serena Williams speaks on Steubenville rape victim, questions her decisions

(Yahoo-Busted Racquet)-If you're a famous athlete, one of the key things you should learn is just to avoid talking on any hot button topic. Serena Williams has been a professional since 1995, so she's been around the block with the media a time or two.
Yet she still has those moments that make you just shake your head.
One happened in her recent Rolling Stone interview. Williams talked with Stephen Rodrick and let a few things fly, with the most puzzling being her take on the Steubenville rape case.
If you aren't familiar, a 16-year-old girl who was passed out from alcohol was raped by two high school football players on August 12, 2012. The incapacitated victim was photographed and assaulted in a horrible situation that made national news for months. The football players were both found guilty of rape in March and for some reason Williams started talking about this story during her interview.
Here is the excerpt from the article, courtesy of Deadspin:
We watch the news for a while, and the infamous Steubenville rape case flashes on the TV—two high school football players raped a 16-year-old, while other students watched and texted details of the crime. Serena just shakes her head. "Do you think it was fair, what they got? They did something stupid, but I don't know. I'm not blaming the girl, but if you're a 16-year-old and you're drunk like that, your parents should teach you—don't take drinks from other people. She's 16, why was she that drunk where she doesn't remember? It could have been much worse. She's lucky. Obviously I don't know, maybe she wasn't a virgin, but she shouldn't have put herself in that position, unless they slipped her something, then that's different."

Seriously what is the point of Serena bringing this up, even if she really believes it? Williams didn't go out of her way to blame the 16-year-old victim, but to question her judgment even a little in a case like this is inexcusable.
The whole quote makes you scratch your head, but the most puzzling part is that Serena is questioning a woman's judgment after she was sexually assaulted by two men. No matter if you think getting so drunk you pass out is a bad move or not, to not be 100 percent sympathetic to this poor young girl is completely senseless.
You have to think that Williams will definitely come out and apologize for this comment, as she should. CNN had to take its medicine after it was criticized for being sympathetic toward the two men after the verdict was announced and Serena will have to do the same.
Still, it just seems like a weird thing to bring up in a national interview in front of a reporter who's writing about everything you have to say.
Sometimes it's best just to say nothing at all.

*The only reason why I am re-posting this article is because the one who wrote it is busting on my girl Serena.
Look; at the end of the day, Serena can comment on whatever the hell she wants to no matter what the story is at the moment.  If it seemed as if she came down on that broad who got drunk on her own free will, then so be it!  
If anything,  parents should be truly talking to their kids and not letting them roll out across state lines and shit to go to a damn party and get drunk!  
We here at Diva's Nation isn't saying the broad got what she deserve, but we are saying she did drink on her own in crowd full of kids who cared nothing about her young ass.  If her parents was doing their parenting duties, then there's a chance she wouldn't have found her ass in a drunken situation like what happened in Steubenville.  
For my girl Serena, leave her alone please! It's not a big deal for her to say what the hell is on her mind and tell like it is.  
It is what it is...LOL

Diva's Nation
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