WNBA fans, let’s talk. We’re less than a month into the regular season and the discourse is out of control.
Chicago Sky’s Angel Reese celebrates a basket with Michaela Onyenwere against the Indiana Fever during the third quarter at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on June 1, 2024We’re less than a month into the regular season and the discourse is out of control. For many years, interest in the league was considered pretty niche.
Fans and media who are new to talking about the WNBA seem surprised by the physicality of the league, the skill of play and the diversity of personal stories that have gone untold. But instead of watching, listening and learning — in addition to contributing to the conversations at such an exciting time in WNBA history — they are quick to dismiss just about anyone with even a game-related criticism of Clark.
Chicago Sky fans temper newfound attention with heightened expectations at home opener: ‘It’s transformative’ When we talk about why the WNBA was largely ignored for decades or even the language being used in defense of Clark, you have to mention the Blackness and queerness. It would be naive to act as if these aren’t important levels to the nastiness we’re seeing. The truth of the matter is, until we stop acting as if these aren’t issues – whether conscious or subconscious – we’ll never really be able to move forward.
“I think is relevant here because there’s this pattern in the WNBA of kind of looking for the next ‘Great White Hope’ who will ‘save’ a predominantly Black sport and make it appeal to more mainstream, read white audiences,”. “And the important thing is not just that person is white, but that person is straight. And so we see that with Caitlin Clark. You can look at Sue Bird and see the way that was done when they put her on a red carpet with Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys her rookie year.
Longtime fans are on high alert, aware of the WNBA’s history of promoting white players and pushing back against new narratives, as they’ve been the unofficial keepers of the game for more than two decades. They’ve pointed to this as the reason Clark fans refer to her as “more marketable” than Wilson and others, but in their zeal to protect the players they love, the arguments on social media have descended into chaos.
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