It shouldn’t be this complicated for the Women’s National Basketball Association to have a controversy-free week. Yet, as the league has risen from the depths of obscurity and increased viewership and popularity, it is becoming more known for its series of unfortunate events and unforced errors than for dynamic female athleticism on the basketball court. And one of the reasons for this is unquestionably that, for some weird, odd reason, the WNBA is having great difficulty agreeing on… wait for it… what a woman is.
Yes, the players, coaches, marketing gurus, owners, and league executives of the Women’s National Basketball Association cannot define what a woman is. Not only can the WNBA not define what a woman is, but they also needed to create a task force to arrive at such a ridiculous conclusion. Of all the obstacles and hurdles the league has faced over its years of existence, being able to define what a woman is in the WNBA should be as easy as a layup — well, unless you are the Atlanta Dream’s Angel Reese.
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Such absurdities within the league beg the question: What does the W in the WNBA stand for? Woke, women, or weird?
Women
By now, most readers probably know that the recent controversy over defining a woman in the WNBA started a couple of weeks ago when the Indiana Fever’s Sophie Cunningham stated, in an earlier interview, that men should not be competing against women in sports.
“I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men,” Cunningham said. She doubled down after receiving criticism, categorizing her views as “common sense.”
“I said what I said,” she said later. “I think it’s common sense.”
She is right, and most normal, rational, logical, and intelligent people know she is right. But common sense about this topic evaporated from normal discourse when a transgender college swimmer from the University of Pennsylvania started breaking swimming records, and college administrators, officials, and executives allowed it to happen. However, just as when I interviewed a University of Pennsylvania teammate of Lia Thomas in 2022, the logic then should apply now: Women’s sports should be solely for women, real women, actual women, not those pretending to be women or deluding themselves into thinking they are women.
There is a reason men and women compete in separate leagues. There is a reason men and women have different locker rooms. There is a reason there are the NBA and the WNBA.
Woke
Cunningham’s response generated a woke backlash that was never really warranted but happened anyway. It’s indicative of the decadeslong rabid and toxic indoctrination regarding transgender issues, and, tangentially, LGBT issues, in American society. Generations of people were brainwashed into thinking transgenderism is normal. Numerous coaches objected to Cunningham’s phrasing and supported the idea that a biological man could change his mind about being a man and decide he is a woman and should be able to play in a women’s sports league.
To make matters worse, the geniuses at the WNBA felt it necessary to create a task force to resolve this conflict. So league executives met, and a group was selected to try to define what a woman is… in the WNBA. They needed a task force to define a woman… in the WNBA. And if this stupidity isn’t enough, the great intellectual minds who gathered were still unable to reach a consensus on how to define a woman.
The woke backlash against Cunningham included several WNBA coaches who actually defended transgenderism, with some saying they would welcome men playing in women’s sports. Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve wore a T-shirt during a game that read “trans kids belong.” But as ridiculous as this issue was, the WNBA followed it up just a couple of weeks later with another incident, unrelated to transgender individuals or how to define women, but somehow again featured Sophie Cunningham. It involved the woke’s favorite phrase, “white privilege.”
During a game, Cunningham received a vicious foul from Chicago Sky player Dijonai Carrington. After she was ejected from the game, Carrington posted on her social media the phrase “white privilege” and tagged the Indiana Fever. The implication was that Carrington was ejected because of issues related to skin color. She later denied her comments had anything to do with skin color, but never specified what she meant and why.
Carrington was clearly guilty and deserved to be ejected. Yet it didn’t stop the WNBA’s woke crew from rushing to her defense. Cunningham’s own coach, Stephanie White, inexplicably defended Carrington’s actions in a press conference after the game. Others in the WNBA also rushed to Carrington’s defense and tried to make her ejection about race and link it to some sort of discrimination against black women. Once again, it was absurd, but it was enough to make one wonder if the W in WNBA stood for “woke.”
Weird
Whether it is men playing in the women’s basketball league or baseless accusations of white privilege, one thing is certain regarding the drama in the WNBA: All of this is just weird.
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The league is led by weak-minded, incompetent social-justice bureaucrats rather than efficient, intelligent, capable, and qualified executives. The lack of self-awareness in the league, the absence of common sense, and the inexplicable rush to defend left-wing cultural values have left the WNBA mired in controversy again. All of it is just weird.
Then again, after all the league drama over the past three years and its inability to course-correct and manage self-imposed crises, maybe what the W in the WNBA truly stands for is weird. And if not, there is definitely a compelling reason for it. Unnecessary racial controversies, the complete inability of a woman’s sports league to define what a woman is, is undoubtedly and unquestionably… weird.
