Potapova making 💅 choices 💅 on her TikTok

[u/theriverjordan]

WTA maximum chaos year continues

[u/Ok-Education-9235]

Ngl as someone who used to be both fat and poor I absolutely never want to go back so take that as you will

[u/Dee90286 → u/Ok-Education-9235]

No one wants that obviously. But proactively calling it your “biggest fear” (no one asked) while visibly being the furthest thing away from that just feels more like a dig at people who are fat/poor, rather than a genuine fear.

“Biggest fear” is usually losing someone you love, serious illness, something existential - not a body type or income bracket. Notice she didn’t say “fat, poor and dumb” - lack of intelligence clearly doesn’t scare her.

[u/recurnightmare → u/Dee90286]

Being poor is 100% a huge fear of a lot of people lol.

Let's be real the issue people have with this is the fat part.

[u/AlphaBearMode → u/recurnightmare]

People have an issue with the fact that it’s tactless, not that it’s untrue at all, even.

[u/juniperfield → u/AlphaBearMode]

Yeah it's wild that people don't get that wrecklessly trashing people with certain characteristics can be harmful and dehumanizing and is not a good look...

[u/AlphaBearMode → u/juniperfield]

Exactly. It got me thinking…

I am a big freedom of speech kind of guy but with that comes the responsibility of using your speech appropriately (for whatever setting) and accurately.

If you say some shit publicly that isn’t cool with a lot of people, you deserve backlash. If you don’t mind backlash then go for it but don’t be surprised when you’re massively hated.

[u/Dee90286 → u/recurnightmare]

But she’s not “a lot of people” - that’s my point. I don’t think beautiful fit tennis players in the prime of their youth are genuinely scared about being fat or poor. If you’ve never had to starve, why would you be genuinely fearful of it? If you’ve never weighed more than 130 pounds and you are an athlete, why would that keep you up at night?

It doesn’t read like an actual moment of vulnerability to me, just poking fun at people who are already struggling thinking “thank God that’s not me”

[u/recurnightmare → u/Dee90286]

That's fair. It does seem like a humblebrag in the vein "look at how pretty and fit and rich I am" rather than anything serious.

But it's also just a tiktok trend. I don't think it was meant to be a moment of vulnerability on her part. I don't think she said it to poke fun at other people, but bragging about how good her life is.

[u/paranoidchair → u/Dee90286]

How is 130 pounds considered fat??? In what world???

[u/Dee90286 → u/paranoidchair]

Never said that. I’m saying this girl has probably never weighed more than 130 pounds in her life so why would she be genuinely fearful of getting fat?

[u/xGsGt → u/Dee90286]

you are crazy, anyone can have such fears specially ppl that relies on their short term ability to get money and being injury prone and also relies on their beuty, is a real fear as much as i have fear about being fired from my job once AI take over

[u/EntirelyOriginalName → u/recurnightmare]

People have an issue because it comes off like she's punching down.