By M Dowling
The league and its media enablers want to pretend that Sophie Cunningham has somehow forced the league to be about something other than basketball. They have decided men can be women, and truth doesn’t matter.
The Athletic (New York Times) writes, “The WNBA conversation is no longer about basketball, and Sophie Cunningham doesn’t get why.”
It is nasty and is trying to divert from the actual issues, manipulating the public if it can.
“The entire point of the WNBA is that men and women are different,” Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway said on Outnumbered. “And you can’t have a functional women’s sport if you have men playing in it.” That is the point.
“The WNBA has worshiped the gods of identity for so long that it can’t now insist on a reasonable definition for the first word in its name. The league has surrendered the most potent weapon at its disposal: reality. As this weekend’s controversies underscored, the WNBA is now important mainly as a stage for everything but basketball. It’s a backdrop for a highly volatile debate that serves only to divide,” says William McGurn at The Wall Street Journal.
As McGurn put it, The Women’s National Basketball Association has crossed over into “Saturday Night Live.” The most divisive issue regarding Sophie Cunningham and women’s basketball is men in the WNBA. It’s not race, but DiJonai Carrington tried to make it about “white privilege.”
“For what this movement really opposes is truth and the norms based on truth. If all they achieve is to advance the idea that norms are arbitrary expressions of personal preference, they win big.