Rant #3,374: Is There Something I Should Know?

A very happy Juneteenth to you and yours!

And in honor of Juneteenth, I will do my work like I do on other weekdays, because sorry, I won't be participating in any Juneteenth events.

And during Pride Month, we have the continuing saga of Caitlin Clark, who has become the face of the WNBA, the league that the media so wants us to care about.

Well, I think some WNBA players are not taking to Clark's popularity so readily.

She has had to withstand several overly hard fouls in recent games, some so hard that she has been knocked on her toukis on a number of occasions, for no reason other than to send some type of message to her ...

But wait ... it is so very obvious why she is being attacked, and I have spoken about this elsewhere--

Clark has been fouled hard, knocking her off her feet ... yes, she is being targeted, because she has become the face of the league so quickly ... and she is not only heterosexual, she is white. 

Don't tell me that there isn't plenty of jealousy, racism and sexism at play here. The media refuses to cover this angle, because they so want the public to be interested in a league that few care about--

And this has evidently been going on for years, while the WNBA, NBA and the media turn away from this imbecility and do nothing about it.

According to an article that has resurfaced from the New York Post in 2017, Clark is not the first player to ne targeted in the league because of her sexuality.

According to the article from seven years ago entitled "Straight WNBA Star: Lesbian Culture Broke My Spirit," former WNBA player Candice Wiggins told writer Mark W. Sanchez that there is a "very, very harmful" culture in the league, and she was bullied during her eight-year career because she is heterosexual.

Wiggins retired prematurely in 2015 because she could not take it anymore.

The former player estimated that 98 percent of WNBA players are lesbians, and her dreams were quashed by the attitude of many of those players towards her.

"The experience did not lend itself to.my mental state," Wiggins told the San Diego Tribune, where the story originally was published.

"I didn't like the culture inside the WNBA, and without revealing too much, it was toxic for me ... my spirit was being broken."

She said that she was harassed for being a straight player in a predominantly gay league, and her being vocal in her identity, coupled with the fact that the league starves for attention, was not a happy situation for her, made worse by the mainly lesbian players.

"It was a conformity type of place," she related. "There was a whole different set of rules the other players could apply."

Now we have Clark, whose popularity as a college player has translsted over to the still-flegdling league ... and it is so obvious thst some of the players don't like this young upstart, who is not only straight but also caucasian, taking the spotlight away from them.

When they attack Clark like they are doing, yet look at Britney Greiner as something of a conquering hero, it is obvious thst there is something very wrong here.

You might remember Greiner spoke negatively about our country and disparaged our flag and freedoms ... except when she needed our nation's help to be set free from a Russian jail, where she was serving time for pot possession.

Greiner is a hero, Clark is a pariah ... go figure.

So you can bet Clark will find herself back on her toukis again, and again, and again, until something is done about it--

I am not holding my breath on that, and neither should she.

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