Martina Navratilova rips Tim Gurner after a shocking interview
09/17/2023 12:00 PM
Martina Navratilova has been fighting social battles for years, relating to equality and rights. Lately she has created some controversy over her stance against male-born transgender athletes, which has drawn criticism from the LGBTQ+ community, who have accused the US tennis legend of homophobia.
Now, the former tennis champion has reacted on X with a very harsh post towards real estate developer Tim Gurner.
The man explained: "We need to see that change, we need to see unemployment rise. Unemployment has to jump 40-50% in my view, we need to see pain in the economy, we need to remind people that they work for the employer not the other way around.
There's been a systematic change where employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them as opposed to the other way around. So it's a dynamic that has to change. We've got to kill that attitude and that has to come through hurting the economy, which is what the whole global, the world is trying to do."
Navratilova responded to these controversial and shocking statements with the following words: "What an utter p…k!
— Martina Navratilova (@Martina) September 13, 2023Navratilova on the eye of the storm after the words about Sharapova
Only some days ago, Martina was hit bay a storm on social media, after her words about Maria Sharapova. Shehas been in the eye of the storm lately for some of her statements, but now fans have attacked the women's tennis legend en masse for questioning Maria Sharapova's inclusion in a poll on the best women's tennis player of all times.
A post on X asked fans to vote for the best players in history by listing four players: Serena Williams, Steffi Graf, Maria Sharapova and Martina Navratilova.
Navratilova responded by calling Russia's inclusion on the list a joke: "What a joke- I mean Maria? Really? Don't even bother voting."