MAGA media personalities can’t stop talking about the WNBA — not because of the players’ athleticism, but because people keep throwing adult toys onto the court during games. After degrading transgender athletes under the guise of protecting women’s sports, right-wing media weirdos are once again demonstrating their utter disdain for women athletes by mocking the incidents and suggesting the WNBA “embrace” the sexualization of its players.

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/48188675

After months of degrading transgender athletes under the guise of protecting women’s sports, right-wing media weirdos are suggesting the WNBA “embrace” the sexualization of its players

MAGA media personalities can’t stop talking about the WNBA — not because of the players’ athleticism, but because people keep throwing adult toys onto the court during games. After degrading transgender athletes under the guise of protecting women’s sports, right-wing media weirdos are once again demonstrating their utter disdain for women athletes by mocking the incidents and suggesting the WNBA “embrace” the sexualization of its players.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
    19·
    12 hours ago

    Of course they are. They were mocking women’s sports before too.

    And as a trans woman, while I have issues with the way sport is treated in our society, women’s athletes deserve a baseline respect they so rarely receive. These attacks are sexual assault at worst and sexual harassment at best.

    The idea of someone throwing dildos at a sporting competition is potentially funny, but the act is anything but. And even in the hypothetical joke version, specifying women’s athletics ruins the joke.