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Venus and Serena Choose Pink

This is a guest post from sportswriter Caitlin Moscatello:

Pink. It’s the color of “pretty” things—lipstick, frosted cupcakes. It’s also the shade female athletes have historically avoided—until this week's U.S. Open, where Serena and Venus Williams appeared all in pink. It’s hard to ignore the contrast between the Williams sisters’ shade of choice and the vulgar scrutiny they’ve endured for being muscular and female—and perhaps, muscular, female, and black ... (Read more in DoubleX.)