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See the full story · 5 sourcesAs we theorized yesterday, the WNBA's sex toy problem has officially come back with a vengeance.
Three more sex toys were launched onto the court Friday during the third quarter of the Chicago Sky-Golden State Valkyrie game. Three! It's a pandemic. It's official, folks.
Mask up! Stop the spread!
This comes on the heels of the famous neon green toy making a stunning appearance during Thursday's Dream-Sparks game in Los Angeles. For those who missed that one, Angel Reese saw the perp right away and viciously pointed him out in the crowd. He was later seen fleeing the scene.
What a league.
Anyway, back to Golden State ...
Three sex toys interrupted play in the third quarter, and Sky guard Natasha Cloud was asked about it after the game.
What followed was one of the wildest two-minute rants I've heard come from a professional athlete.
Enjoy:
"Y’all lame as f–k," Cloud started before diving into a world of name-calling, slurs, and sex toy talk. "And I just, man, and like, in most of these occasions, it’s men. And I want you to know that is the gayest thing that you can do is to go to a store, a sex shop, buy a dildo, come to a women’s game to throw the dildo on the court. That is the gayest s–t that I’ve ever heard."
Here's where things really go off the rails:
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"So I’m a firm believer in anyone that has so much problem with a certain marginalized group, just come out and say that you’re a part of our marginalized group because that hate is unwarranted. It’s not factual," she continued. "And it says more about the internal struggles of that individual than it ever will say about the collective group. The men that are throwing it, shows that you are weak. Like, extremely weak. And it says a lot about how you feel about women. Y’all lame to us. Y’all gay to us.
"We see it. Keep throwing them if you want to keep telling us you’re gay. You can come out. You’ll be happier. You’ll be nicer to people. You’ll be happier in your everyday life. You don’t need to go to therapy or none of that s–t. Just be yourself. Y’all weird. Like it says dildo on their credit card. Like they have to go through their financial advisor and be like, ‘What’s this green dildo? You good, Chad? You good, Richard? Are you good, Paul?’ Because it also is a certain demographic."
Goodness gracious. Like I said, it's an all-timer. It's a rollercoaster. Natasha hit all the notes here. She used the word gay 400 times, and also used it as an insult, which I'm not sure the WNBA will love. She also attacks guys, which is fair, and makes sure to throw in some racial undertones at the end.
Again, I'd say that's fair, but also, one of the guys arrested for doing this last year had the name "Lopez," so I'm not 100% sure that math checks out.
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Anyway, I don't care about any of it. I think Cloud is right in saying that going to a sex store and buying a toy, just to pay for a ticket to a WNBA game, just so you can then throw said toy onto the court and stop a game, is silly.
That seems like a ton of work for very little payoff. Also seems like a waste of money. I could never afford that lifestyle. What a luxury.
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That being said, I'm not sure lashing out like this is going to help. If anything, it's probably going to make this sex toy pandemic worse. If I know anything about how the human male brain operates, name-calling usually doesn't solve problems.
Just a hunch.
Stay tuned!
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