The events surrounding the WNBA—there is practically a new dramatic upheaval every two or three days—are more important than basketball. The woke community that comprises much of the WNBA players, coaches, owners, and administration do not hesitate to preach their gospel to this country. And they are free to do so. But when they begin to make foolish decisions that hurt people it becomes everyone’s problem. This is why, for weeks now, every media outlet that has any following at all has been glued to the WNBA and its drama. Congress, the Lt Governor of Indiana, even the Vice President: all have weighed in.
In case anyone has forgotten, Caitlin Clark has been assaulted many, many times on the court and trashed off the court. And when Alyssa Thomas put her fist in her throat, the WNBA did not care. In that situation, Stephanie White showed concern for: Alyssa Thomas. The highlight reels showing cheap shots on Caitlin are hard to watch.
A couple of weeks ago, Sophie Cunningham gave her honest opinion about biological men being allowed in women’s sports and the entire world has been talking about it ever since. She took an elbow to the neck and the foul was called on her: crickets. Dijonai Carringron assaulted her and posted “WHITE PRIVILEGE.” Stephanie White had no comment. She only supported her style of play.
Tonight, Stephanie White lashed out at everyone whose fault all of this is—mostly social media and fans she rejects as being real fans (some of whom booed her at their home game against the Liberty) and blamed them for all of the trouble and the pressure she is feeling. She thinks people are trying to divide the team. What I’ve heard from is literally thousands of people who care about the fever, their players and the future of the WNBA and women’s sports.
White said she didn’t see the play on Sophie in real-time (though multiple screen shots show her attentive to the action on the sidelines). Not seeing the play in real-time (which doesn’t square with video of the incident) didn’t keep her from commenting on it. Presumably her initial response was, then, based on seeing a replay. Except she said in real time she was unable to see the egregious was of the foul. Hmmm. So she didn’t see it in real time and yet commented on it saying it was a fair call and saying it was a hard foul and unintentional. If she didn’t see it in real-time then she must have seen it on a replay. Then she claimed that she didn’t have the advantage of watching it over and over like we do at home and if she didn’t she would have seen how bad it was. Well she either saw the play in real time or she didn’t. If she saw the replay she should have seen that it was intentional and egregious. My head hurts after a while.
Finally, Stephanie declared her love, integrity, humility, her care for her team (finally) and said to hell with everyone else.
A week or so ago, White chose not to define women because she wasn’t educated enough on the matter of whether men can actually become women, but declared that exclusion is never the answer, therefore it must be that the WNBA will include trans women. Maybe this doesn’t matter to some people, but it matters to little girls, high school aged girls, olympians, and soon it will matter to the women of the WNBA.
Everything I’ve mentioned here has been just the last two months at the most.
So, if you want to know why this is important to a lot of Americans, it’s because we think truth is important, we think biological women are important, we think assaulting people on the basketball court because you don’t like their value system is wrong.
For me at least, my attention to this is not because White is gay. (That’s usually the accusation when someone criticizes a person in the LGBTQ+.) It’s that she uses her position as a bully pulpit for her perspectives, excludes so many with her message of inclusiveness, at times has not taken care of her players, has a dangerous view of what our culture should be about, and doesn’t want to be held responsible for the things she says.
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