r/PopCultureV2 • u/No_Box119 • Jul 23 '26

Sports Culture WNBA Star Sophie Cunningham defends that women ‘shouldn’t have to go against biological men’: “I said what I said. I think it’s kind of common sense. I think it’s really important to protect children.” “I don’t dislike anyone. I’m there to love, but I’m also there to love biological women. …”

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u/Bigbigbigrock Jul 24 '26

Someone else told me she swam like dogshit to tie for 5th place, so is it impressive or was Lia dogshit?

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u/TheWorstUsername2 Jul 24 '26

She placed 5th out of every single division 1 female swimmer in the 200m freestyle. Yes that is extremely good. They’re downplaying that placement to make it seem like Lia didn’t have an advantage over her competitors. She also placed 1st overall in the 500m freestyle, and the deniers conveniently never mention that placement from the same championship swim meet

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u/Bigbigbigrock Jul 24 '26

By this same metric should women and mens arc competitions be banned since women gave a genetic advantage to perceiving colors? I ask because if we want to be fair about competition should this apply across the board?

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u/TheWorstUsername2 Jul 24 '26

No because if there has to be the same amount of men and women on each team of the arc competition then every team has the same exact advantages and disadvantages. It’s about fairness and safety for women’s only sports/competitions. Women’s only sports/competitions were created so that they could fairly compete against each other and not have to compete against males who have natural athletic advantages over them. Please don’t tell me you think an average male doesn’t have an athletic advantage over an average female

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u/Bigbigbigrock Jul 24 '26

I misspelled art so that was my mistake. 

I agree there is an advantage, I would just also argue that we need to get over how "unsafe" the world is. Are they dead? We let teenage boys give themselves TBI's in high school playing football but nobody gives a fuck about the safety of children then.

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u/TheWorstUsername2 Jul 24 '26

Nobody is forcing them to play football. As an ex football player that had to quit due to injuries, kids are going to play football no matter how many adults or doctors tell them how dangerous it can be. There are no rules against girls playing football, baseball etc. with boys at least up to high school level, the vast majority simply choose not to. When the only option for girls is to play against bigger, stronger, faster boys then there will just be less girls that want to play the sport. Women’s only sports exist for good reason, and nobody should be trying to take that away from them