Lynx PoBO Cheryl Reeve Goes Off on WNBA’s Green Sex Toy Problem

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In case you haven’t heard, the WNBA has been making the news lately for reasons that you can’t really make up. Over the last couple weeks, the league’s No. 1 enemy has been… green sex toys.

It all started on July 29, in a game between the Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries. As could have been predicted, the displaced green dildo went viral.

A few days later, on August 1, a nearly identical dildo landed on the court in Chicago. To date, according to USA Today, there have been “as many” as six green dildos thrown on WNBA courts.

Cheryl Reeve upset over green sex toys being thrown onto WNBA courts

While we are yet to see the Minnesota Lynx directly impacted by flying green sausage-shaped objects, their president of basketball operations Cheryl Reeve felt a need to speak on this growing problem within her league. Whether it’s happening in crypto protest, WNBA protest or for laughs… the head coach of Team USA is not amused.

Reeve told reporters gathered at Lynx practice on Thursday that these flying green dildos aren’t just a safety hazard, but more importantly, it’s an attack on women via “sexualization” that has been holding the female race down for centuries…

“Obviously, you guys know what the object is. I just want to comment on [how] this has been going on for centuries. The sexualization of women. This is the latest version of that. It is not funny. It should not be the butt of jokes on any radio shows or in print, or in any comments.

The sexualization of women is what’s used to hold women down, and this is no different. This is just the latest version, and you should write about it in that way. These people should be held accountable. We are not the butt of the joke, they’re the problem and we need to take action.”

Cheryl Reeve – video via Shelby Swanson (Star Tribune intern)

I’m not here to convey my political beliefs on others, just like I’m not here to analyze the Minnesota Lynx’ opinions on the sexualization of women and how it has hurt or helped them. I’m just here to bring the most interesting pieces of news to Minnesota Sports Fan readers.

Some mansplaining for Minnesota Lynx PoBO and WNBA

With that being said… let me offer Cheryl some free mansplaining, since I know she would appreciate it. No matter how many WNBA championships she wins, Reeve does not get to decide what I or anyone else on the internet can or cannot find funny. That’s just not the way internet America works.

This article you are reading is a great example. I had no intention on writing about sex toys tonight or mansplaining on anything. Yet here I am, giving the dildo situation more attention, and only because of Reeve’s rant.

Related: Cheryl Reeve’s KFAN Absence Stems From Refusal to Discuss Caitlin Clark Snub

No matter how she or others feel about the toy tossing competition going on between WNBA arena patrons, this is not the way to handle it. In my non-female opinion, Reeve and those at the top of the WNBA need to stop trying to control all the uncontrollables that come with major professional sports.

If they want the big money TV contracts and higher salaries, then telling reporters how to cover the sport, or how fans how they’re allowed to watch and comment on it is a bad idea..

I don’t know how the league is going to fix its green dildo problem. Personally, I thought it was funny the first five times… but I’ve always drawn the line at six sex toys being too many. But again, that’s just me.

Everyone else is free to their own rubber/plastic object throwing opinions, just like most storylines that randomly grab national attention. Even if I agreed with Cheryl, I’d recommend against angry rants into microphones where you tell people how they should feel and what they can or cannot find funny. It never goes well.

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