Recently, a disturbing trend has surfaced at the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) games: fans throwing dildos onto the court. At first glance, some might brush it off as a crude joke or a bizarre stunt.
Might they? That would be stupid. Of course it’s not a joke or stunt. It’s just boring old misogyny. “You think you’re so great, bitch? Hahaha suck my dick.”
Throwing a dildo onto a court where women are competing isn’t comedy. It’s about control and humiliation. It turns a professional sporting event into a stage for sexualising female athletes and stripping away the focus from their skill and hard work. This act reinforces the belief that despite women’s achievements, someone can still see them as sexual objects for amusement.
And throw things at them.
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Almost literally “(I’ma) Fuck You.”
Mens’ rape fantasies rear their ugly heads anywhere that women dare do anything.
Here’s a quick yet reliable way to tell if this is a “crude joke or bizarre stunt”, or plain misogyny: are they doing the same thing at men’s basketball games?
All it would take to stop this is one bystander identifying the perpetrator so he can be put on camera. As they said at my kid’s school, don’t be a bystander, be an up-stander.
Ostensibly it’s to promote a memecoin called Green Dildo, because crypto assholes are raging misogynists.