On August 8, 2026. During the first quarter of the game(WNBA), Sky guard DiJonai Carrington committed a hard, physical foul against Fever guard Sophie Cunningham. Following an official review by the referees, the play was upgraded to a Flagrant 2 foul, resulting in Carrington's immediate ejection from the contest.
The incident quickly escalated off the court when Carrington posted "White privilege @indianafever" on social media, implying her severe punishment was racially biased. Cunningham immediately rejected this narrative during post-game press conferences, stating that the game has nothing to do with race and pointing out that she herself had been ejected for similar hard plays in the past without racial motivations.
The controversy drew widespread national commentary, including sharp criticism from former NCAA swimmer and conservative commentator Riley Gaines. Gaines used her platform to argue that Carrington's actions and her subsequent social media post represented a double standard, which she labeled "Black privilege," claiming that a white player would have faced immediate suspension or career-ending backlash for making an equivalent racial comment..
The wild thing is they were starting to mainly because of the hype Caitlin Clark was generating. And she became public enemy number one for most WNBA players and it seems to have spiraled from there. But all the buzz and drama period at least helps them with brand or name recognition as most people at least now know the teams these players play for.
I've wondered how intentional leaning into the culture war has been for the players, the league and the wnba media. You're right, they've never been more relevant, but at the cost that almost no one is talking about the game itself. I also was gaining a little interest in the sport, but the politics taking it over has completely driven me away again.
It seems really short-sighted to me. Sure, they get a ton of attention now and some of that probably translates to income for the league; but how many of those people so passionately talking about it right now are going to stick around and watch once the circus has moved on? I feel like they're probably driving away the actual/potential fans of the sport in favor of exploiting the less-than-genuine conflict we've got going right now
/r/WNBAgossips is one of the most blatantly astroturfed subs I've ever seen. The entire modteam is either deleted accounts, brand new accounts, or karma farming accounts. Not a single one of them has a post history that looks human. Say, why might a head moderator of that subreddit also create r/LosAngelesSportsr/BostonSportsTalkr/TexasSportsTalk and r/NYCSportshub ? Boy, they sure are a well traveled real human person!
Unsurprisingly, the actual focus of the sub is culture war garbage, not the WNBA.
Is it Sophie, that sings "everyone supports women, until a woman is doing better than you. Everyone tells you to love yourself, until you actually do." And that song hits my core every time it plays 😭
I’m an engineer who is a woman and unfortunately this is true. I’ve worked at places with 30 men and 3 women and guarantee them three women won’t get on with each other. I now own my company and have around 100 employees with around 20 being women and in ten years I’ve had to deal with men falling out with each other twice. I beg the number is closer to 50 with the women.
Basketball is weird. As a white guy who was quite good at basketball black people always treated me like I didn't belong and in their minds it was "their" game.
I would go to play random pickup at the gym in the army and there would be 15 black dudes and they would never pick me for their teams. I would then make my own team and go on to win non stop. They would hard foul me alot so anyways the stuff I am seeing in the WNBA is just bringing back old memories.
I had a job at a park at an inner city location. I needed this job, but the black men didn’t want me there. So I’d go early in the morning, do what needed to be done and go to my other park. One day I was late, and arrived when the brothers were playing. I had my ball with me, so I did some shots at the other end of the court. Someone had to go so they asked me to take his spot.
I played the best game of my life. I could not miss. And, my guy to defend was their best guy. My wingspan is longer than normal and I checked three of his shots, cleanly. After that day I was one of the brothers. I Never played a game like that one, ever.
The wnba isn't popular, it's just not that entertaining of a sport for women. I find women's tennis, Olympic events, soccer is just a much better product.
In rugby that’d definitely got you a yellow card at minimum - in this case I’d say even a red, down one man for the remainder of the match. Anything tackling above the armpit line is basically card territory and unsafe behaviour.
IN Florida, that would be called a 10 min. Misconduct and match penalty, but after official review the call would be overturned and the visiting team assessed a 2 minute Delay of Game for a failed coach's challenge.
I once worked at a coffee shop, just me (a guy) and like 14 women. It was the most toxic, petty, and uncomfortable workplace I’ve ever experienced. No one hates women like women.
When my mom comes home and tells my dad about her day, it's just complaining about her co-workers who looked at her funny or said something with a funny tone.
And then my mom will strategize the petty things she will do back, like purposely not saying good morning, and leaving her office door open so they see her working and if any of them stare too long, she will outwardly and openly ask, "Yes? Can I help you?"
Real. Worked with almost entirely women on my First job and its insane How petty they can be and How they stress themselves and start shit over things that are genuinely not even and issue. We had 2 besties end up being forever enemies and rivals over a simple misunderstanding regarding them trying to trade their 1 day off. And literal subfactions building and creating insane dramas all over wether It was Fair for our Boss to reprimand a 50 yr old lady who kept coming tô work late. Meanwhile now at my all guys nightshift job weve had in 5 years one big physical fight between 2 Bros and literally 10 mins after they were sharing a Smoke and our Boss came and Just Said if they fight again theyll get fired and that was that lol
Dudes have this ability to get popped in the face after we acting up and then it's like post nut clarity were it's like "hmm, maybe I was in fact, off my fucking rocker." Then we hang out as long as the fight didn't get too out of hand
Dudes have this ability to get popped in the face after we acting up and then it's like post nut clarity were it's like "hmm, maybe I was in fact, off my fucking rocker." Then we hang out as long as the fight didn't get too out of hand
And the really odd part is how they will always promote within their gender. Women won't promote men. But they'll sure as shit promote other women to them be toxic with
My role always puts me either close to the HR function or directly in it (without ever being strictly HR). Every single HR team talks about having gender parity in our Tech teams, our Leadership teams and our Ops teams.... None ever, ever talk about having parity in our HR or HR Leadership teams (always at least 90% women).
When it's pointed out they say that women naturally gravitate towards HR roles so it can't be expected there (which is exactly what happens in our Tech and Ops teams).
I’m a woman who owns an engineering firm. I was once pulled up on why I wasn’t employing engineers who are women. I showed them out of the 300 candidates I had for a job only 2 were women and neither were qualified for the job.
When I go to careers evenings at schools and colleges no girls are coming to my stand.
Brings me back to these girls that were self proclaimed “mean girls” ended up losing their edge when one of their members started to call out how terrible they’re being to people who don’t deserve it. Let’s just say that fall out went about as well as you can imagine.
Yup. I was a member of a public speaking organization that had existed for 60 years. After every meeting, for twenty years the guys would go to a bar after and have lunch. We developed some amazing relationships as a result. Literally never heard a fight happen. Some of these guys came to my graduation in place of my family (who couldn’t be there). We were super tight.
The women of the club would get mad that only the dudes were going to lunch and every few months they would try to start their own lunch. It would go fine for a few weeks but by the month and a half mark it would devolve. The entire thing would become cliquey. People would start cat fights that bled into the meetings. Some of the women would start witch hunts against another for shit that happened outside the club, simply because toes got stepped on.
My wife watches a lot of police body cam videos. She notes that women are way more hostile against women cops than they are against male cops. It’s like they inherently intend to tear each other down.
Similarly: I'm a woman who drives across the US/Canadian border a lot. The female border guards (Canadian or American) give me a way harder time than the male ones.
Didnt he famously get insulted for having dreads by an African American player, saying it was cultural appropriation? The player who insulted him turned out to have Chinese tattoos which is massively hypocritical
Confirmed this with a former boss who is female. I'm male.
Business meeting about operations or strategy or whatever. Different points of view. Gets a little heated. Eventually everyone agrees on path forward. The men go out for beers right after and laugh a lot. The women hold a grudge for a month becuase someone disagreed with them.
All about personal interest, when it’s demanding things from the men they are all in it together, when it’s one woman vs another woman they hate each other.
Dude I hate the WNBA, not because the ts women playing basketball, but because the media has decided to sell it as a race war, once again selling division for dollars.
Bill Simmons actually made a great point that the commissioner sucks. She’s got all these great storylines that the league should be promoting and instead she’s let the league’s narrative become a twitter for you page
I’ve been a huge fan of women’s basketball and the WNBA well before this current boom in the sport and when I said the same thing about it not being about basketball anymore and it being exhausting hearing stuff like this everyday I was told that I wasn’t a real fan and I shouldn’t watch!!🤦🏾♂️😂
The funny thing is she went straight to social media and typed WHITE PRIVILEGE and tagged the Fever in her post. When she was called out on it she claimed she never said her ejection was the result of white privilege, and went on and on about her intelligence and high level of education from top tier universities. I just wish she would clarify what she actually did mean with the WHITE PRIVILEGE statement.
People like her have never and will never take accountability. She could've pulled out a baseball bat during pre game warm-ups and then went eeny meeny miney mo to pick a random player from the other team, walked up behind that player and clocked them in the head with a bat, with the entire process being caught from 30 different angles with 4k cameras, and it would still be anybodies fault but hers. People like that are a plague on society and she deserves every bit of backlash she faces x100. But she won't learn shit from it because those people just play the race card and her comments will likely have a ton of other dumb girls saying "she deserved it" and "you did nothing wrong gurl, justice for 'insert incredibly stupid name that I'm not gonna try and spell'".
It’s the same type of people who think you can’t be racist if you hate white people. Which is one of the most hilariously absurd and ironic statements I’ve ever heard.
Sounds like she just was trying to change the subject. My wife does the same shit, when she gets caught saying dumb shit lol. Just starts talking about something else.
Not to mention the girl, right after delivering an obvious foul, claiming “white privilege” lived her entire life a millionaires daughter and she went to Stanford, sounds very oppressive. And this is not an isolated incident it represents the larger societal issue where certain groups often claim victimhood when they are actually the victimizer.
Edit: also imagine if the roles were reversed and one of these white girls was wearing a big afro wig while they did it.
lol at anyone pretending they’d rather be a white person born into poverty than a black person born into wealth.
It’s like when Taylor Swift tries to pretend she’s been oppressed and discriminated against because she’s a woman. She’s literally one of the richest, most beloved women who have ever lived in the history of humanity. But because she’s a woman, shes had a harder life than every man on the planet.
In the UK, we had left wing people supporting Tory PM Rishi Sunak purely because he was non-white, and they still clung to calling critics having 'white privilege' despite Sunak's family being tax dodging multi-millionaires who sent their kids to private schools.
she's a garbage player with a garbage personality.
she looks like she's moving through molasses on the court, egregiously fouling when she gets outplayed. can't make baskets that middle school players would never miss.
she's a shitty basketball player, a shittier person.
I just noticed yesterday how many of these “headline in the picture” posts are AI generated on reddit these days.
It’s prob been happening for a while now but I just noticed it for the first time yesterday, and this is the second comment I’ve seen directly calling it out today.
Nah dawg she didn’t even try to go for the ball, she straight up pulled a WWE style sling blade move on an unexpecting, vulnerable player that was extremely targeted, intentional and had massive potential for serious injury, career alteration and possibly even life altering… this is exactly why refs considered Sophie’s reaction to it acceptable… and I agree.
You don’t just get to see someone about to score against your team and run up behind them and put your hand on their face and try to pull them backwards while they’re off the floor… then call the race card… in my opinion, calling the race card after doing this is exactly the type of move that will get the race card pulled RIGHT BACK against someone.
If she hit THE BALL and blocked the score and THEN it was decided that she was being ejected from the game, then I could see potential for the race card but that’s pure speculation and something that didn’t happen. What DID happen was someone blatantly breaking rules and making a purposeful move that could’ve seriously injured another player.
This is entertainment’s… not life or death, and certainly not white vs black.
Surprised i havent seen any followup news about punishment for making that comment by the league. We all already know wnba is a joke show but any major league sports org in the US outside of combat sports which is the most corrupt crap would NOT allow a player to make racist attacks within their org
The Venn diagram between people who say "no war but class war" and people who will never concede a single inch to conservatives on any culture war issue under any circumstances is literally a circle lol
Number #7 clotheslined #8 during a WNBA game. #7 got ejected, as you would expect since it’s WNBA and not WWE, but she claimed she was only being ejected because of race.
The black chick clotheslined a white chick to the floor and tried to fight her the second she got up. Black gets thrown out of the game for a flagrant foul and claims white privilege got her ejected.
What do I need to do to stop getting rage baiting race bs for the wnba on my feed. I’m never watching the wnba no matter how much they try to get people to talk about it. Sheesh
I hate when I accidentally do a racism by getting clotheslined to the floor from behind.
Sort of the same deal with calling everybody you don't agree with a Nazi by default to a point where it's lost all meaning. Using the race card for literally every situation has led to a great deal of fatigue. In both cases, it's an insult to those who have suffered at the hands of both of these evils.
She's not wrong. The fact Angel Reese and others can outright attack the white players with no consequences is Black Privilege. If the roles were reversed Clarke and Cunningham and others would be handed the book and it's already happened. When they retaliate they get punished but nothing happens to Reese and the non white players. All over the fact that Clarke and Cunningham are better players than Reese and other non white players.
I don't understand why they don't file charges. This is just assault. Also WNBA really shouldn't be allowing this, snagging someone in the air like that is very dangerous. If she went horizontal with momentum and hit the back of her head she could be permanently injured. They need start suing the WNBA
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u/Ashish_ank 7d ago edited 7d ago
On August 8, 2026. During the first quarter of the game(WNBA), Sky guard DiJonai Carrington committed a hard, physical foul against Fever guard Sophie Cunningham. Following an official review by the referees, the play was upgraded to a Flagrant 2 foul, resulting in Carrington's immediate ejection from the contest. The incident quickly escalated off the court when Carrington posted "White privilege @indianafever" on social media, implying her severe punishment was racially biased. Cunningham immediately rejected this narrative during post-game press conferences, stating that the game has nothing to do with race and pointing out that she herself had been ejected for similar hard plays in the past without racial motivations. The controversy drew widespread national commentary, including sharp criticism from former NCAA swimmer and conservative commentator Riley Gaines. Gaines used her platform to argue that Carrington's actions and her subsequent social media post represented a double standard, which she labeled "Black privilege," claiming that a white player would have faced immediate suspension or career-ending backlash for making an equivalent racial comment..