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And did the baseball player continue to break the rules after he was charged?

As bad as John Macenroe was , he never assaulted an official. And the rules were introduced because of his tantrums. Male tennis players have had their entire matches defaulted as recently as last year for being assholes.

behaving in the same way to refs, and captioning one as "arguing" and one as "the mother of all meltdowns."

The OP has to do with the media outlet, not the refs or the sports team.

Is that clearer?

And Serena Williams did not assault an official. She yelled, like McEnroe.

Interesting that you think she "assaulted" the official...

It seems like, if Serena can't win, nobody can win.

Eject all adults having temper tantrums.

A manager in MLB can raise hell, and get ejected, and not really cost his team anything. It's actually expected, if there is a halfway decent reason to think the umps have been killing his team.

Tennis players aren't on a team. Any penalty given to them, hits them, and them alone.

I think when it comes to these sorts of things, female athletes ARE treated unfairly when compared to how male athletes in the same sport are treated. But, I don't think it's because females are hammered harder than the rules dictate. I think females are pretty much treated how the rules say they should be treated....it's males that get a free pass in a lot of cases where they should be hit with the rulebook.

And captions for photos of people doing the same thing?

Because this post is about the different captions for photos of two atheletes pointing fingers at a ref, not the difference between team sports and individual sports.

It just has one photo of an athlete. That one photo of an athlete is of Serena Williams.

The other photo is of a manager...a manager that was ejected from the game for arguing a call the ump made.

But I'll play your game.

These are two photos of two sports figures interacting the same way with refs, and one is captioned "arguing" and one is captioned "the mother of all meltdowns."

What happened afterwards is not addressed in the photo captions, which are the subject of the OP.

Is that clearer?

Perhaps he shouldn't have put her in that position - whole different argument - but it does count as a warning on her. It doesn't matter if she saw it or not. He was warned, so basically she was warned.

I can't imagine making that much of a scene. It's a game. Act like you are an adult.

Also as noted, there are different expectations for behavior and rules in the different sports.

what is acceptable in a white male athete is unacceptable in a black female athlete.

That is the difference.

And Boone was actually ejected, Williams was not.

It makes a good visual, but it's not an apt comparison. And I've seen managers accused of having meltdowns (I've seen, on TV at least, managers having meltdowns) and having them described more or less as that (Billy Martin and Lew Piniella both come to mind).

The man arguing with the ref was actually ejected by the ref, but he is "arguing the play" and the woman who is arguing with the ref, which did not get her ejected is "having the mother of all meltdowns."

doing the exact same thing. She actually has a right to be extremely upset about this. Being upset by a missed call by an umpire in baseball in a sport where men are treated equally is just being upset over a missed call. I would argue she has a much, much, much stronger case to be angry, even be irate. If you were treated differently than someone else would you not feel moral outrage?

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ejsp.434

Men have been expelled from entire matches.

Its part of the game, one bad call can cost a player the match and 100's of thousands of dollars, if they don't stand up for themselves, nobody will.

"there are different expectations for behavior and rules in the different sports..."

Now, if someone provides us with objective evidence to support the allegation, the allegation may even go so far as to be considered an unproven hypothesis.

But all we have is the bumper sticker "different expectations" to better rationalize holding Ms. Williams to a higher standard.

may not be the perfect comparison, but what was done to Serena was just plain wrong.

Red herring logical fallacy:

versions of past bread and circuses...no offence.

But thanks for participating.

Which poster here accused you of a logical fallacy?

This is about the reporting; not the players.

I read it, too. Yet there's an obvious slant to most of the reporting in that paper.

. . .(not counting endorsements, just pay for the job itself), Boone's penalty is substantially more severe. It's 0.6% of his salary.

17k is a LOT less than 0.6% of what Serena made this year.

Game, set, match ..

I'm totally engrossed in these Serena threads. So many good points made on both sides. It reminds me of something...

see the difference.

I’ve seen players muttering something under their breath while walking back to the dugout get tossed by umpires.