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Serena Williams reacts after a point against Poland's Magda Linette in the first round of the American tennis tournament.
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23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams has criticized GQ on social media after the magazine awarded her the title of 2018 tennis woman – but, strangely, she added quotes around "Woman" .
The 2018 winners – including Michael B. Jordan and Jonah Hill – did not have quotation marks placed around their gender on alternative versions of the magazine's cover.
Some Twitter users quickly pointed out that American fashion designer Virgil Abloh was the one who had styled Williams' cover after previously dressing a tutu dress so that she could participate in the American Open this summer. The Off White brand of Abloh highlights the words written in quotation marks.
But this explanation has not satisfied many critics of the cover.
"This context is certainly useful – it is really discouraging to rain especially for an athlete who has been criticized for not being a woman / not a real woman in all sorts of racist and problematic ways," wrote a user.
Another tweet: "I can not believe that at GQ, we could have thought of misogynistic and violent transgender insults that Serena (and Venus) have treated for almost 20 years, without putting the woman in quotation marks. The newsrooms are a disaster —— all over the country. I am offended for her. "
A social media user noted that when "Wonder Woman" star Gal Gadot appeared on the cover of "Woman of the Year", "woman" did not appear in quotation marks either.
Williams returned to court this year after giving birth and suffering complications from pregnancy. She has held major races in each of her Grand Slam tournaments and finished second at the American Open.
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