LZ Sunday Paper Newsletter: The "Foxy Lady" Edition

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Readers,

Some important news in Women's Tennis.

No, not that John McEnroe crazily and needlessly dissed Serena Williams. We covered that last week.

No, not that Venus Williams lost her bid to win Wimbledon in a historic, fall-apart-at-the-seams final match. (BTW who amongst us hasn't been there, done that, albeit at a slightly different level?).

Not even that I, myself, today will play in the Semi-Final of a highly competitive, albeit B-level, tourney.

The news is that I will play this tournament in a pair of stiff, smelly old tennis shoes that are about a size, maybe a size and a half, too big.

Headed out yesterday to play my first match of the tourney, I donned my tennis garb, and went out to the porch to put on the Har-Tru-encrusted tennis sneakers that get left outside every night, sticking to the family plan to get as little sand, dirt, and tennis gravel in the beach house as is possible. (Turns out it's actually not possible, fyi).

So I go out, under-caffeinated and wondering if/how/when I will win/lose in the tourney. And I found just one sneaker. One bright coral-colored relatively new Nike tennis shoe. The other gone. Didn't blow away, didn't roll away. Not possible.

No, I don't have "spares." No spare pair of tennis shoes. No cool double-strapped bag full of rackets and balls and sweatbands and whatnot. I am wearing yoga shorts, a t-shirt, and a bucket hat, and I am good to go. Except, only one shoe.

So I run around, rooting through various closets, and I found the only possible alternative. Yes, he grew out of them almost two years ago. And yes, the last pair of socks worn were still balled up in the toes. Pretty stiff stuff, you can imagine. But yes, I wore my 15-year old son's old, stinky, too-big shoes.

At the courts 5 minutes later, I didn't wanna be that person that says "oh i'm sorry i'm late, oh and also i'm going to play terribly because this weird thing happened and my shoe was gone and i'm wearing a smelly stiff pair that doesn't fit and…"

So, we do what we can with what we have. I made it through to the semis. With a fun partner.

After the last match yesterday, I finally did start to tell a couple of folks my story. A few people made the good joke that it was probably my opponent from the first match today -- haha that would have been a good trick, Amanda! But then other folks said, definitively, no, it had to be an animal. We have a lot of deer, some raccoons, a bunny or two, your basic domesticated dogs and cats, a couple of wild-ish homeless cats, but I don't see that host of 4-legged creatures hauling off with my Nike clearance shoe from several years ago.

Then, one very knowledgable and definitively nature-oriented lady said, it was definitely a fox. What? A fox on my porch? I'm telling you it is unlikely.

However, she was right:

Holy crap! It WAS a fox!

An inveterate photographer snapped this photo -- in broad daylight it seems -- and posted it on our beach community's FaceBook group to warn outside shoe-leavers like me of the imminent danger. Message received!

Now, just wish me and my ill-fitting footwear some luck in my semi-final match. I like my opponents very much, and one thing I can guarantee--if you're the betting kind-- is that their shoes will fit better than mine.

Will give you the score next week. In the meantime, please keep yourself on your toes by catching up on this week's must-read news by and about women in business, media, digital, politics, and every aspect of pop culture. It's hand-picked by me, for you, each week, right here. Enjoy and share. Subscribe if you don't already. Sign your friends up. Believe me, they'll unsubscribe if they don't care for it.

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See you next week,

//LZ

THE PIC(K) OF THE WEEK:

Althea Gibson's Amazing Win At Wimbledon in 1957 Paved The Way For Venus and Serena via The Washington Post

NEWS & POLITICS:

Reebok's Simple Chart Mocks Donald Trump's Comment About Brigitte Macron via Fortune

Congresswomen Take A Sleeveless Group Photo To Celebrate New Capitol Hill Dress Code via The Cut

Ivanka, Inc. via The Washington Post

All-Girl Afghan Robotics Team Allowed To Travel To U.S. After Visa Ruling Overturned via The Guardian

Two Women's Movements via The Nation

New Hampshire Republicans Accidentally Pass Law Allowing Pregnant Women To Kill People via The Huffington Post

BUSINESS, DIGITAL & TECH:

Latina Immigrants Raise $30 Million Dollar Venture Fund In Silicon Valley via Flipboard

Asian American Women Are At The Forefront Of Trendsetting, Taste-Making, and Entrepreneurship via The LA Times

CAMPUS CLIMATE:

Republicans and Campus Rape: The Department Of Education's Bizarre Christian-right Tilt Is No Accident via Salon

These Democratic Senators Are Blasting Betsy DeVos For Her Approach To Campus Rape via BuzzFeed

MEDIA, ARTS & POP CULTURE:

What Does 'The Beguiled's' Matriarch Reveal About Female Relationships? via Dame Magazine

Sophia Coppola Responds To 'The Beguiled' Backlash via Indiewire

Rape Choreography Makes Films Safer, But It Still Takes A Toll On Cast and Crew via LA Weekly

Misguided Male Critic Is Mad The Bechdel-Test Isn't Fair To Male Dominated Hollywood via The Daily Dot

The B-Side: Errol Morris' Deft Portrait Of A Photographer via The New York Times

Jesse Williams, Jay-Z, Umar Johnson, and The Allure Of White Women via The Root

How To Be A Successful Black Woman via The New Yorker

In A Cozy Setting At Wimbledon, The Women's Game Suffers An Indignity via The New York Times

Real Men Might Get Made Fun Of via The New York Times

AND WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE ABOUT:

A Photo Of Marilyn Monroe For Every Year She Was Alive, 1926-1962 via Historical Pics

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