it’s so tone deaf and ironic that SAD (perfect acronym, way to go SarkAfterDark) thinks we hate women, when in reality the literal reason that all of us are in here shitting on people like angel reese and chennedy carter is because of their repeated and undeserved attacks on a woman.
we, basketball fans, saw the first female player who reminded us of steph curry, and with lots of promotion from ESPN we got to watch her, know her, and root for her. it was new, it was fun, it was exciting, and best of all, as soon as she finished college she got to immediately start playing in the pros.
only guess what? the pros didn’t want her. the pros either didn’t respect her, didn’t want to see her succeed, or downright despised her. right out the gate diana turasi talked shit about CC on her podcast; angel reese called her out; chennedy carter (not even in the league anymore) cheap shotted her from behind; all kinds of teams, *especially* angel reese’s team, physically and verbally went after her; when that was happening, her own teammates ignored it, did not stick up for her, and did not retaliate; she not only was left off team usa, but the team usa coach talked shit a out her. meanwhile, CC just kept her mouth shut and, after a short adjustment period, rapidly ascended to the top of the league where she remains as its best player today.
we didn’t all just show up here one day like, “man fuck women! i hate women! they shouldn’t have rights! i’m so mad that the wnba exists!!!”. we got introduced to a demigod in sneakers who made us want to tune in and watch, and the moment she got to the pros the entire league set out to bully her, to trash her, to diminish her, and we didn’t like it. amd now that the league has our attention, the more attention we pay, the more these women have shown themselves to be embarrassing athletes and terrible people. so instead of talking about that sweet chest pass, or pretending like the world’s slowest fast break which ends with a 4-on-1 layup that hits the bottom of the rim and then gooses out of bounds off a girl’s knee *wasn’t* objectively terrible play, we’re in here talking about the still-shockingly cold reception that the best women’s basketball player of this century has gotten from a league full of wonderful people like brittany griner, chennedy carter, and angel reese. we don’t hate women; we hate shitty people.