2018: Serena Williams Emerges “Woman” Of The Year but …

GQ has announced its annual Men of the Year honourees: Michael B. Jordan, Jonah Hill, Henry Golding — and one woman of the year, Serena Williams.

On the iconic cover featuring Williams, the cover line reads, “Introducing the 2018 ‘woman’ of the year,” with woman in quotation marks.

Apparently, the typeface was designed by Virgil Abloh, who collaborated with Williams on a line for Nike and is known for incorporating quotation marks in his clothing designs.

But lots of people interpreted this punctuation as a sexist slight against Williams, who has been mocked for her appearance and called a man because she “appeared outwardly strong,” she wrote in an open letter on Reddit last year.