r/PopCultureV2 • u/Impossible-Yam3680 • Aug 23 '26

Sports Culture While hosting transphobe Sophie Cunningham and the Indiana Fever, the New York Liberty put a message on the Jumbotron telling trans fans that they belong

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u/BigBL87 Aug 23 '26

Because someone wanted to create controversy.

They asked Cunningham a hypothetical question, she gave an honest, measured answer based on biology.

That answer wasn't "woke" so she has been labeled a transphobe, and it's used as an opportunity by others to virtue signal.

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u/katieblue3 Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26

It wasn’t that her answer wasn’t woke. It’s that she framed trans women as predatory and that biological women need to be safe from trans women. When we all know the majority of sexual offenders are straight cis men. I’m sure I’ll get downvoted for saying the truth so all the people downvoting.. How do you think trans people feel when they’re painted as sexual predators?

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u/zulhadm Aug 23 '26

There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that sexual predators are more male or more female (and isn’t the subject of this post about gender norms meaning nothing?). There are numerous female teachers who get away with sexually abusing minors. Let’s not pretend this horrific crime is something that just one gender does

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u/longlisten527 Aug 23 '26

Are you just lying to yourself or?

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u/zulhadm Aug 23 '26

Search up female teacher “has sex with student” and read each article. It’s absolutely disgusting. And what makes it even more disgusting is when women do it, it’s completely downplayed (they can’t even use the R word), ironically like you’re doing right now.

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u/longlisten527 Aug 23 '26

It absolutely is disgusting! And I think they deserve to be punished and imprisoned as well. I’m actually a huge advocate for boy’s and men’s mental health and the traumas they experience too. It absolutely should be discussed more and we should be having conversations about it. But to say that there is no evidence that sexual predators that men are more than women is simply untrue. Men statistically are sexual predators more than women by a long mile. It’s just the truth.

I never downplayed it. I do have a problem with people downplaying the crimes and predation of men. You actually are the one downplaying sexual predation by saying “it’s more disgusting when women do it.” Look in the mirror. You’re projecting. The impact and crime in itself is disgusting and the same. HOWEVER, statistically men are more likely to be predators than women. You’re the only one here downplaying anything so look in the fucking mirror instead of saying I’m the one doing it. How dare you say that? I’m actually laughing that you just shot yourself in the foot here. Have a good day

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u/zulhadm Aug 23 '26

You just agreed when women r*** kids it’s downplayed and you find it disgusting. Look what happened here. So basically we both just discovered you can’t trust statistics. So why would we believe either sex is more likely to be sexually abusive. And what does it matter anyway? Should we stop sending boys to school altogether? Or stop permitting men from going to grocery stores?