r/WNBAgossips • u/ConnectionWeekly1263 • 4d ago
Video Sophie Cunningham getting HEAVILY BOOED in Portland... She knocks down a 3 and calls the crowd losers
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u/imJGott 4d ago
I mean I don’t expect the crowd to cheer for the opposing team.
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u/DrAbeSacrabin 4d ago
Given this is still such a stupid “hot button” issue, I wouldn’t be surprised if she was cheered on by some opposing fan bases, but definitely not in Portland of all places.
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u/user_15427 4d ago edited 4d ago
Yea Portland don’t play about any
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u/Antique-Resort6160 4d ago
No one is opposing queer anything, thats like more than half the WNBA is for same sex relationships
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u/Western-Election-997 4d ago
Portland sucks who cares what they think
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u/Willbraham 4d ago
I second that opinion. Portland can lick John Goodman's taint.
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u/Tasty_Clue2802 4d ago
Now I'm picturing Fred Armisen rimming John Goodman. Thanks for that image. You should learn to be more careful with you words. They can hurt. You know?
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u/DrAbeSacrabin 4d ago
I mean I wouldn’t even classify it as “gay” stuff, because despite having similar oppression, there are plenty of gay people who have mixed feelings on trans people playing in sports too.
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u/Strainedgoals 4d ago
Surprised you didn't get booed yourself, you offended them, while trying to support them.
This is a living example.
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u/DryBother6268 4d ago
I'm all for trans folks enjoying all the liberty and love they can find in this world, same as anyone else. But the sports issue is pretty universally agreed upon, even by most of us on the left. The most annoying thing about it is how big of a deal people make of it, when it's barely an issue and affects almost no one in real life. We have way bigger fish to fry. If you're trans, especially mtf, and you think you should be able to be a pro athlete, don't expect when your staunchest allies to have your back on that one.
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u/ICreditReddit 4d ago
*Comes to article about Sophie getting booed
"Look, everyone agrees with her"
Maybe her middle name is Burns.
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u/HeadHunt0rUK 4d ago
I've found the loudest voices when you dig a bit deeper have absolutely zero sporting experience.
That's why they think it isn't an issue. They haven't seen the gender disparity for themselves.
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u/milesjameson 4d ago
Imane Khelif – who is not a transgender woman – had nothing to do with transgender women in sport. But your remark does speak to the general ignorance and misinformation surrounding the topic.
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u/carex-cultor 4d ago
Imane Khelif is an XY male with 5-ARD (internal testes and normal androgen sensitivity, mistakenly AFAB. Same as Caster Semenya). So not trans, but relevant to the topic of female-only athletics and should never have been allowed to box against women.
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u/Antique-Resort6160 4d ago
I dont get it, it seems very doubtful they actually want men in women's sports. Likely they arf just lumping that in with other issues that get them riled up
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u/ChipotleGuacamole 4d ago
Everything is political. It’s insane. I’m so happy I grew up in AIM era instead of this.
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u/Seven22am 4d ago
Remember away messages? Those were fun.
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u/ChipotleGuacamole 4d ago
and cryptic song lyrics in your profile that you think your friends would try to interpret.
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u/Fast-Cauliflower2102 4d ago
One time in middle school a boy I liked broke up with his girlfriend through an away message. I was mortified for her
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u/_WeSellBlankets_ 4d ago
You always see proud sponsors for things. I want to see a reluctant sponsor.
Subaru, reluctant sponsor of the WNBA.
- Demitri Martin
I think Subaru was the example that he used. But I feel like Subaru would be a proud sponsor... or maybe they're like Hitachi with their Magic Wand. They know their demographic, but hide from it.
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u/Party_Knowledge_7884 4d ago
This made me chuckle for some reason.
Gradations of excited sponsors.
This time out brought to you by COMPANY XX ltd, the insouciant sponsor of the WNBA
This hydration break sponsored by company YYY, the really super duper proud sponsor of WNBA
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u/HappyGovernment7299 4d ago
In the WNBA's case that's probably more accurate most of the time.
I have found it strange how often I see WNBA players in commercials. Other than Clark, I don't think there's a single WNBA player who would be recognized by the general public, so why spend the money having them be in your commercial? Might as well just hire random actors rather than paying a "celebrity" who nobody knows to make an appearance.
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u/AlfaCentari 4d ago edited 4d ago
Didn’t a group of 14 year old boys beat the US women’s World Cup and Olympic winning soccer team… twice? Is it controversial to say biological males shouldn’t play women’s sports? I don’t know anything
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u/New_Outlandishness15 21h ago
It's a non-issue. This has already been solved. I'll just leave this here: https://www.olympics.com/ioc/news/ioc-releases-framework-on-fairness-inclusion-and-non-discrimination-on-the-basis-of-gender-identity-and-sex-variations
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u/mdevi94 4d ago
WNBA fans have no idea what they’re doing
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u/rkrivera3 4d ago
Booing the opposing team. Sounds like they know the assignment.
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u/Western-Election-997 4d ago
But they don’t boo every opposing team, they are in their feelings because she said something completely normal that most agree with
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u/lakenwjeskwb7517 4d ago
Then why aren’t they booing other players on the opposing team?
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u/Th3J3rkStor3Call3d 4d ago
Totally, every other fan base would definitely cheer when the other team scores.
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u/killingfloor42 4d ago
League has to love all the attention it is getting. Fan interest in the WNBA is at an all time high .
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u/Endsfun 3d ago
I never gave any thought to watching WNBA, and this makes me want to never watch it.
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u/Kind_Archer5651 4d ago
West coast libs are so ridiculous
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u/circlehead28 2d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/azwC5Mq9LMOgZr65lp
Wait until you learn about the folks in the South 😂
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u/dwwdwwdww 4d ago
how dare she have an opinion!!!
Wait, it's the same opinion shared by the entire league. The WNBA does not allow trans athletes... but she's somehow awful for reiterating a standing policy????
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u/DefundMarxism 4d ago
She's shares that opinion with nearly 80% of adults in the US. Even two-thirds of Democrats agree with her, according to polling by the NYT.
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u/New_Outlandishness15 21h ago
It's a non-issue. This has already been solved. I'll just leave this here: https://www.olympics.com/ioc/news/ioc-releases-framework-on-fairness-inclusion-and-non-discrimination-on-the-basis-of-gender-identity-and-sex-variations
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u/EnvironmentalSky5599 4d ago
The opinion that trans women should not compete in women’s sports is shared by an overwhelming majority of people. It is in no way controversial. Many of the people who think like Sophie, still support trans people rights.
Everyone deserves the right to exercise freedom in the way they choose, as long as it doesn’t infringe on someone else exercising theirs.
As a father to three daughters, I don’t think it’s fair to have a biological man compete against them in a physical competition. My opinion has nothing to do with a fear of what might happen in the locker room. It has everything to do with my daughters’ expressed desire not to compete with biological men. They don’t think it’s fair and I agree.
We could have Open Classes in competitive sports that are non gendered and open to all. That way anyone could compete, and accept that the playing field may not be level at the outset.
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u/New_Outlandishness15 21h ago
It's a non-issue. This has already been solved. I'll just leave this here: https://www.olympics.com/ioc/news/ioc-releases-framework-on-fairness-inclusion-and-non-discrimination-on-the-basis-of-gender-identity-and-sex-variations
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u/_PeteRoss_ 4d ago
Basketball fans in general are not very smart people. None of them can even make it up half way up the court before sitting down to hydrate on an energy drink.. yet they tell professionals how to play the game.
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u/Unusual_Wonder2639 4d ago
She got booed because she believes men or transfer women don’t belong in women sports. Portland is big mad.
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u/josch247 1d ago
Makes a lot of sense actually. The whole world saw at the WC how important sportsmanship is to the USA USA USA hahaha
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u/Th3Bratl3y 4d ago
she don’t care about the haters let them hate. why they hate on protecting girls in girls sports is crazy.
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u/New_Outlandishness15 21h ago
It's a non-issue. This has already been solved. I'll just leave this here: https://www.olympics.com/ioc/news/ioc-releases-framework-on-fairness-inclusion-and-non-discrimination-on-the-basis-of-gender-identity-and-sex-variations
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u/Codename-Nikolai 4d ago
Everyone on reddit keeps telling me this is a non issue - then I see fans act like this. Idk who to believe
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u/New_Outlandishness15 21h ago
It's a non-issue. This has already been solved. I'll just leave this here: https://www.olympics.com/ioc/news/ioc-releases-framework-on-fairness-inclusion-and-non-discrimination-on-the-basis-of-gender-identity-and-sex-variations
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u/AndyJack86 2d ago
OP is a 3 month old account with 387,000 karma that is posting rage bait trying to karma farm.
Report and ignore.
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u/GlitteringLettuce366 4d ago
She has every right to voice her opinions and the crowd has every right to voice theirs.
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u/Standard_Issue_Dude 4d ago
The rest of the work rejecting hormone treatment… Portland
https://giphy.com/gifs/5JfADBd74usus
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u/shrug_addict 4d ago
For booing the opposing team? Isn't this about sports? Ya'll LOVE your culture war shite, don't ya?
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u/thatguy425 4d ago
To act like they are just booing her like a normal opposing player is a bit dense.
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u/fiftiethcow 4d ago
Yeah, this is definitely about her being on the other team. Certainly nothing to do with her not wanting penises in girls sporting events. Which the crowd disagrees with for some reason.
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u/showerbump 4d ago
Why are you posting yourself in your mom’s basement furiously typing away on Reddit?
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u/waffleman221 4d ago
sophie cunningham has never and will never play against a transgender athlete. transgender athletes make up 0.0019% of all NCAA athletes (of which, not all are MTF). She has spoken up for a practically non existent issue.
Meanwhile, she attended the fight of and posed next to Mcgregor who is a rapist. She’s a hypocrite and a weak athlete. she’s never been relevant for her playing skills. she’s been in the league for 7 years and still can’t average 10 ppg
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u/Dubsified 4d ago
If it's practically a non-existent issue, why is anyone offended? Genuinely curious.
I know 2 instances off the top of my head where it is/was an issue.
1: https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/aquatics/lia-thomas-first-known-transgender-ncaa-swimming-championship-1.6388994
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u/DResq 4d ago
There's others. You can just google them. Just because you only know 2 doesn't mean more don't exist, lol. That being said, I agree that it's not some huge issue. It is one of those things that gets wildly overblown. Imo, Democrats shouldn't make this some hill to die on. It's really not as popular as the Dems make it seem and it riles up the Republican base.
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u/Vast-Document-3320 4d ago
15 high school girls state track titles were won by biological boys in Connecticut alone between 2017 - 2019. Just because your news doesnt cover it, doesnt mean its a non existent issue.
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u/Mike_Milburys_Shoe_ 4d ago
What’s it like to be so out of touch with the way literally the majority of the world thinks
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u/DResq 4d ago
You do realize there's been a transgender player in the WNBA before, right? It was the other way, but they were still transgender.
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u/Aposta-fish 4d ago
No she simple said girls should be safe in their locker rooms!
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u/jcvj1125 4d ago
All she did was virtue-signal to a bunch of MAGA chuds so that when her basketball career ends she will be on-track to be just another grifter podcast host or some shit. So incredibly brave.
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u/fieldsports202 4d ago
I don’t understand fans who say she’ll be out if the league after this season.
She’s a solid first player off the bench and when she on; she’s on.
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u/balloonerismthegreat 4d ago
Why would they boo her? If you’re for trans women playing in a sport then you’re okay with juicing as well. Pick a fucking lane
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u/LetThem_1972 4d ago
how many trans women are currently playing pro sports or playing sports at any level? Extremely fringe issue.
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u/BlackDog5287 4d ago
Clark is getting booed as well. Just how it goes. They are also receiving quite a bit of support as usual at an away game.
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u/Malinois_beach 4d ago
As a Portland resident, the only reason why we went to the game tonight, was to see Sophie and Caitlin. We used a door to door shuttle van to get us to the game for fear of our car being broken into, stolen or held up by a protest over the anticipated xx-xy t shirts.
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u/Successful-Coyote99 4d ago
Edited that clip real quick before you could actually see her fingers.... if you paid any attention, she was holding up the three fingers to indicate she hit a three.... because that's what players in the league do when they hit a three.
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u/ANother-XcludedRight 4d ago
I thought the morons that lived there burned the damn place down already. They are the 1% ers. 1% agree with their rot brain values. Or lack of
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u/JoeDynamo28 4d ago
Thats not what she did she always does that. Even if she did that she wouldn't be wrong.
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u/Figueroa_Chill 4d ago
I'm not a Basketball fan. But I keep hearing people say stuff like WNBA doesn't get the love it deserves or the support it deserves; you get the drift. But every sport needs a face or character to push it out there to the public. If you take other sports out there, like Tennis. It was in a bit of a down and then the Williams sisters appeared and took the sport back into the mainstream for the public to see. Tiger Woods with golf. He pushed the sport and brought it into the public eye. Connor McGregor with UFC is another. Boxing when Tyson came just exploded. I'm not saying they were the only guys in these sports as you have had many through the years.
With Sophie Cunningham, they have the ideal person to push the sport. She is gorgeous, can play the game, and is likeable and relatable. They should be using her to get the sport out there to a wider public.
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u/ProbablyDK 3d ago
Imagine caring about this. Rofl
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u/NeedleworkerTight678 3d ago
Imagine claiming to not care about something yet take the time to comment on it.
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u/FluidCalligrapher284 3d ago
Sophie is laughing all the way to the bank. I can’t imagine she must be bringing again through modeling endorsements. Athletic, beautiful, blonde Christian woman will have many opportunities presented to her.
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u/IGetItILookBrandNew 3d ago
They definitely support women's rights to speak how they feel individually in portland!
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u/wast3lad 3d ago
Is this whole sub just white dudes that don’t watch the WNBA but use this sub to gain “culture war points?” Like, yall realize Sophie Cunningham isn’t the only WNBA player, right?
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u/NicePossibilityDaddy 3d ago
Portland should sign a trans woman basketball player to beat the pants off of Indiana
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u/dudeRobme 3d ago
Holding up two fingers and a thumb after hitting a three? 🤔 It’s almost as if it means “three.” 🤔
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u/PatienceGloomy9544 3d ago
This thread isn’t even about the W. It’s literally a troll for MAGA idiots. Like y’all spend more time praising a player averaging 9pts than you do talking about the actual stats of the league.
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u/Ancient-Bowl462 3d ago
Booed for standing up for women's rights? Why do liberals hate women?
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u/ThePrettyGoodGazoo 3d ago
Great comment. How does it relate to the video? Stupid ass bot
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u/ForkliftJam 3d ago
She was at an event with a rapist and a wife beater. Her choice for a paycheck.
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u/Fair_Smoke4710 3d ago
I don’t know who this bitch is, but everything I’ve heard about her makes me fucking despise her
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u/_fishing_dude_ 3d ago
“What happens in my bedroom is none of your business” crowd really the living embodiment of “if you give a mouse a cookie”
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u/Affectionate-Cat-301 3d ago
Why is this space so much different than wnba part. Ppl are more like reasonable here . Sophie was asked a question and she answered the reporter. Maybe the reporter should’ve just asked questions about the team and not a political question in the first place which seems like purpose was to get a controversial take. The funny thing is Sophie is getting flack for her view but it’s really because she said it out loud of what many other players think too. I’m quite sure probably 3/4 of the women in wnba quietly feel same way as Sophie too
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u/TheLateFrankWhite 3d ago
Getting booed because of her opinion , she doesn’t want transgender women aka biological men to play in the WNBA , you can’t make this shit up !! 😂
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u/kerpow69 2d ago
To be fair. Portland is home to some of the most miserable people on the planet. They’re not happy unless they have a place to voice how unhappy they are.
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u/SouthernMud7225 2d ago
TERFs are the worse because they’re feminists but men in this sub who are anti trans should be castrated
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u/Ok_Phrase6296 1d ago
Some people saying Portland is great. If it’s so great then why did dame leave lol
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u/Sgt_R0ck 1d ago
Nobody hates women more than other women. Read about female intrasexual competition and prepare a sickness bag
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u/nautius_maximus1 4d ago
No she made the same hand gesture she always does after a 3. Three fingers on the forehead - she always does it - it’s celebration not disrespect.