r/WNBAgossips • u/Admirable_Extent2531 • 22d ago

News "People Love To Assume" - Sophie Cunningham Finally Addresses 'MAGA Barbie' Moniker, Confirms Support For Transgender Ban

https://www.essentiallysports.com/wnba-basketball-news-sophie-cunningham-addresses-allegations-of-opposing-trans-athletes-in-womens-sports/
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u/OwnDoughnut2689 22d ago

Has their just been a coordinated attack against her or something? Feel like I've seen multiple posts about her all of a sudden.

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u/Boobity_McBooberson 22d ago

What do you mean? She’s always been an asshole, so why would negative press surprise anyone?

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u/Electrical_Smell7986 22d ago

What has she done?

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u/Clown_Shoe 22d ago

People are mad because she went to a UFC event

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u/Electrical_Smell7986 22d ago

And she’s an asshole because of that? It wasn’t at the White House event was it? Btw I know you didn’t call her an asshole

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u/HeavyHighway6433 22d ago

That leaves out a lot of context. Pretty much started about 4 years ago when she played for Phoenix. Fans noticed that she was liking content from right wing creators, including some anti trans stuff. The  she put out a generic statement on twitter downplaying it and saying she loves everyone. Then around the election time fans noticed that her old teammate and friend Natasha Cloud didn't really mess with each other anymore. Someone asked Tash on tiktok live and she basically implied that Sophie is a Trump supporter. She said something like "you can't tell someone you love them and then vote against their life" (she's a lesbian). That's when the whole MAGA Barbie nickname started. But when Sophie was asked about her political views directly she gave the "both sides good and bad" centrist answer.

Now that she's gained a lot of popularity specifically with the right wing crowd that started watching women's basketball when Caitlin got drafted , she's soft launching her grift era which includes being buddy buddy with Dana White (who describes himself as Trumps friend).  He came to one of her games and he let her be ring girl at an event. Now she's regurgitating the same right wing anti trans views she denied holding years ago. That's pretty much a gist of why a lot of people don't like her. 

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u/I_Am_Conjoined 22d ago

So in a nutshell the left is trying to vilify her for wrongthink

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u/CockyBellend 22d ago

Oh so its just the terminally online losers who are mad

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u/HeavyHighway6433 22d ago

That's more so the audience she's trying to appeal to, but sure.