Bill Maher Says WNBA Players Hate Caitlin Clark Because She's White and Not Lesbian
It’s only been a week and change since the incident occurred, but it feels like I’ve already seen the clip of WNBA star Caitlin Clark receiving a gratuitous hip-check from Chicago Sky guard Chennedy Carter about as many times as I’ve seen Joe Theismann getting his leg snapped in two by Lawrence Taylor during “Monday Night Football” in 1985. Sure, it’s nowhere near as graphic as watching every bone in the Redskins’ QB’s lower leg splinter like they were dry twigs hit with a hammer, but we’ve attached significantly more sociopolitical import to the Carter/Clark to-do than we did with Theismann’s career-ending injury. Part of it is because Clark is one of the reasons we’ve started caring about the WNBA, considering she’s arguably the most promising talent to come into the league in its quarter-century history. And then there are the usual cultural ambulance chasers in the 24-hour news media who need to fill that time with something — so what better way to fill it than to insinuate the only reason we care about this is that Clark has white/straight/pretty privilege?
In that vein, I’ve found myself uttering a phrase that, five years ago, I never thought would cross my lips: Thanks heavens for Bill Maher. Yes, he may be a lib, but he still keeps a residence in reality and is willing to say what the Jemele Hills of the world won’t: One of the reasons Clark is getting targeted is that “women are catty,” “the league is very lesbian, and she’s not, and there’s race.”
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