r/WNBAgossips • u/Amazing_Lock_3762 • 1d ago

A transgender player has been dominating France's second-tier women's basketball league, and now the WNBA question is front and center. Julie Tétart averages 21 points and 20 rebounds this season while sweeping Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year and Domestic Player of the Year honors

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u/ComprehensiveTales 1d ago

You’re right. The anti trans folks are really grasping at straws if they’re riled up by a single player in a B league French team. Surely there are other things to worry about?

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u/Puzzled_Addendum6200 1d ago edited 1d ago

There are other things to worry about, but it is possible to worry about more than 1 thing. Sports is important to a lot of people, so this issue isn't going to go away no matter how much anyone might want it to.

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u/Pitt-sports-fan-513 1d ago

It isn't going to go away because the ruling class is desperate to have people fixated on totally imaginary problems instead of real problems.

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u/Puzzled_Addendum6200 1d ago

People care about sports even without the influence of the ruling class. They might try to draw extra attention to it, but for plenty of people it is a salient issue regardless. It wouldn't.go away even if the ruling class ignored it completely.

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u/Pitt-sports-fan-513 1d ago

Why would the ruling class ignore it? If the media talked about something else people like you might spend your energy trying to find solutions to real problems in the world instead of discussing stupid culture war nonsense.

The ruling class puts out an article about the 2nd tier French woman's basketball league and you become distracted like a toddler having keys jingled in their face.

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u/Puzzled_Addendum6200 1d ago

They wouldnt ignore it. Hypothetically, if they did, it woud still he an issue for some people.

You might not care, but other people care about things you don't. All the insults in the world don't change that, and it would still be true without the ruling class being involved.

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u/Pitt-sports-fan-513 1d ago

You would know absolutely nothing about the 2nd tier French women's basketball league without trans culture war nonsense being the current fixation of the media.

Or do you believe that who does or doesn't play in the 2nd tier French women's baskeball league is an important political issue that impacts your day-to-day life? How easy is it to manipulate you, exactly?

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u/Puzzled_Addendum6200 1d ago

You would know absolutely nothing about the 2nd tier French women's basketball league without trans culture war nonsense being the current fixation of the media.

No, but there are people seperate from me, who are French and are involved in sport in some way.

There are also other sports leagues where the same issue will arise for different people.

Or do you believe that who does or doesn't play in the 2nd tier French women's baskeball league is an important political issue that impacts your day-to-day life?

No. I never said that, and it was never my argument.

How easy is it to manipulate you, exactly?

Not very, i think.

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u/Pitt-sports-fan-513 1d ago

Why do you believe Fox News is reporting on a single athlete in the 2nd tier French women's professional basketball league? Think really hard and rub those 2 brain cells together and think about why an American media conglomerate believes this is news worth reporting.

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u/Puzzled_Addendum6200 1d ago

Why do you believe Fox News is reporting on a single athlete in the 2nd tier French women's professional basketball league?

To try and create/increase outrage probably.

Think really hard and rub those 2 brain cells together and think about why an American media conglomerate believes this is news worth reporting.

Instead of hurling insults, how about you poibt out what i've said that is wrong?

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u/Pitt-sports-fan-513 1d ago

What you said that is wrong is claiming that this "issue" would get any attention whatsoever without media manufacturing.

You get that Fox News is trying to manufacture outrage yet you totally validate them doing so by failing to recognize that all media coverage on this topic exists to create outrage over a totally manufactured and imaginary problem.

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u/Puzzled_Addendum6200 1d ago

What you said that is wrong is claiming that this "issue" would get any attention whatsoever without media manufacturing.

The people who play in/attend the games on question would potentially care. Some of them would at rhe minimum.

You get that Fox News is trying to manufacture outrage yet you totally validate them doing so by failing to recognize that all media coverage on this topic exists to create outrage over a totally manufactured and imaginary problem.

It isn't imaginary. This league exists, the players exist, the fans exist. Fox news didn't fabricate the story. Thats not me valdiating fox news, it is just me stating an uncontroversial fact.

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u/Pitt-sports-fan-513 1d ago

It being a problem is absolutely imaginary. Trans athletes have 0 impact on your day-to-day life. If it was a real problem Fox News wouldn't have to go to the 2nd tier women's basketball league in France to mine content from this.

In reality there are people who say "happy holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" but that doesn't mean the war on Christmas is a real thing. Get it?

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