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NYMAG.COM NEW YORK MACAZINE DAILY INTELLIGENCER VULTURE THE CUT SELECT ALL GRUB STREET THE STRATEGIST CUT THE STYLE SELF CULTURE POWER E THE BODY POLITIC SEPT. 9, 2018 Serena Williams and the Game That Can't Be Won (Yet) What rage costs a woman. By Rebecca Traister Photo: Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty Images don't care much about the rules of tennis that Serena Williams was accused of violating at Saturday night's U.S. Open final. Those rules were written for a game and for players who were not supposed to loolk or express themselves or play the game as beautifully and passionately as either Serena Williams or the young woman who eventually beat her, 20-year-old Naomi Osaka, do. They are rules written for a sport that, until Williams and her sister came along, was dominated by white players, a sport in which white men have violated those rules in frequently spectacular fashion and rarely faced the kind of repercussions that Williams - and Osaka - did on Saturday night.

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