@tyusnight@foxandfriends@LawrenceBJones3 One is too many. Girls and women on all levels of sports should not have to give up their seat at the table for mentally ill men.
What has Cathy Engelbert’s WNBA taught us this season?
Apparently…
1. Players can be shown discussing a wager on a WNBA game... as long as the league calls it “lighthearted,” deletes the evidence and handles everything behind closed doors. The league’s own account published the content, yet its statement somehow became another lecture directed at the players.
2. A player can be throat punched while the ball is dead, but expecting the officials to recognize what happened in real time is apparently asking too much.
3. The commissioner can fail to appear for a scheduled interview and still demand accountability, professionalism and transparency from everyone beneath her.
4. Caitlin Clark can receive technical fouls for clapping or pointing toward the scoreboard while comparable... or substantially worse... behavior from other players is routinely treated as personality, passion or competitive fire.
5. Inflammatory rhetoric is condemned selectively. The league discovers moral urgency when the target fits its preferred narrative, but suddenly develops selective hearing when hostility is directed toward the people it considers culturally expendable.
6. Contracts and roster commitments are apparently binding only until personal preferences, preferred destinations and league politics make them inconvenient.
7. Players can turn the league’s premier showcase into a vulgar, alcohol-soaked spectacle, and the same institution that lectures fans about respect will market the weekend as culture.
8. Fans can purchase access to an advertised player appearance, wait in line and leave empty-handed when the players fail to appear... with little public explanation and even less accountability.
9. A team owner can confront and curse at teenage girls for peacefully supporting a player, reducing one of them to tears, and the league will respond only after the incident becomes a public-relations disaster.
10. A fan can spit in another person’s face, but concern for fan safety appears to depend heavily upon whose jersey the victim is wearing.
@Jacksoncha2593@Shraddhaszn01 It was not for the All Star game. It was for the Dream vs Wings game on 7/29. BTW…They were teammates on the All- Star game.
@HDTHEAGENCY@DontAtMeDD@dandakich I just want to watch basketball. I am tired of the bitchy, mean girl stuff and hearing all about the humping going on.
The WNBA culture has spent years pretending it speaks for the public.
It does not.
For too long, this cult-like league and its fans have labeled ordinary disagreement as discrimination, intimidated people into silence and treated every accusation as automatically proven.
That playbook worked only because too few people challenged it.
Now the public is examining the context, rejecting the manufactured outrage and refusing to be bullied by the same recycled accusations.
That is why the WNBA and its old fans are furious.
They have been exposed.