Serena’s body isn’t built to emulate the look of the model in an Ann Taylor shift dress. It’s built—through an exacting and grueling regimen—to decimate her opponents. And the suggestion that that body, too, is beautiful and sexy—in spite of, or even because of, its threat to the norms of white femininity—will continue to be threatening until the standards of beauty are decentered from those of the white upper class.
