Caroline Wozniacki's Impression of Serena Williams Pegged as Racist and Sexist

Tennis star Caroline Wozniacki, during an exhibition match with Maria Sharapova in Sao Paolo, Brazil, was goofing around and imitated one of her good friends, Serena Williams.  Wozniacki stuffed her shirt and skirt with towels to imitate Williams' body, which apparently has been regarded as racist and sexist in some circles.

Wozniacki has made fun of Williams in the past, as have male tennis stars Andy Roddick and Novak Djokovic have done as well.

Feministing.com has taken serious offense to the friendly imitation, and plans to incite a Twitter campaign to force Wozniacki to apologize.

"[Caroline] oh so cleverly inserted towels into her top and bottom, so it looked like she had bigger breasts and a bigger butt.  Making fun of somebody's body is inappropriate, sexist, offensive and problematic.  But given the history and current-day context of racialized standards of beauty, and the hypersexualization of people of color, when a white woman makes fun of a black woman's body, especially in a way that hypersexualizes her and draws on the stereotype of black women's big butts, its racist."

Never mind the fact that that last sentence is absolutely ridiculous, using the word "hypersexual" in two different forms, the claims that website makes are just absurd.  Wozniacki and Williams are close friends, and not one other person on the planet was upset about the joke.

“She oh so cleverly inserted towels into her top and bottom, so it looked like she had bigger breasts and a bigger butt. Making fun of somebody’s body is inappropriate, sexist, offensive and problematic. But given the history and current-day context of racialized standards of beauty, and the hypersexualization of people of color, when a white woman makes fun of a black women’s body, especially in a way that hypersexualizes her and draws on the stereotype of black women’s big butts, it’s racist.

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