CNN’s Jessica Dean: ‘The WNBA Is Cracking Down on Dildos Being Thrown onto the Court During Games’

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>> Didn‘t have this one on the 2025 bingo card. The WNBA is cracking down on dildos being thrown onto the court during games. The sex toys have shown up six different times, from Atlanta to L.A., posing a risk to players.
>> It‘s ridiculous. It‘s dumb, it‘s corny, it‘s stupid. It‘s also dangerous. And you know, player safety is number one. Respecting the game, all those things. I think it‘s really stupid.
>> So what is this? Who‘s responsible for starting this trend? Apparently a crypto meme group which calls them pranks. But those pranks have so far resulted in two arrests. And it raises the debate. Is it a sexist stunt? Is it some sort of rite of passage that every league experiences? Something like this? What is going on? What is this?
>> I just want to make this point right fast. I‘ve been watching sports for 40 years. I‘ve been covering sports for 20 years I don‘t recall this one happening. I just want to throw the idea like, oh, is this just something that goes.
>> On.
>> In sports? Yeah. Toss the on the floor is not a tradition that I recall going back to Indiana or any other place where they played basketball. This is I don‘t I‘m not inclined to believe there‘s anything ideological behind it. I think it is sexist in the sense that you could get away with doing this to women. Right. But I don‘t think that this is fueled necessarily by that thing. This is stupid. People who have found something goofy that they could do, and now we‘ve got a problem because it‘s such a story and it‘s stuff that we‘re not really in a position to do. The only thing that will make it stop, which is act like we don‘t see it.
>> I also think the people who are doing this, they are not fans of the WNBA. You would not disrespect a player like that and disrupt their game if you were actually there to root them on and to win. I think it‘s not just sexist, I think it‘s homophobic too. Quite honestly.
>> One of the things is that here‘s a lesbian talking about. Okay, on Saturday. Morning, on a Saturday morning, look, I‘ve been to a lot of WNBA games. I‘m not a big. I‘m the. I‘m the only lesbian who doesn‘t like sports that much in America. But I‘ve been there, and they‘re growing like a business, like crazy. They‘re really doing well. And the owners are really interesting. Like Claire wu and others. There‘s so many amazing people involved in it now that I think there‘s for some reason, to slow it down. I feel like to slow down the momentum here and to make jokes with them is part of it. Like to to shame or something like that. And of course, like you said, they‘re just they‘re just toddler men