My Facebook feed has started showing me lots of clips of Caitlin Clark for some reason known only to The Algorithm … I don’t follow the WNBA. But the clips are all of Clark getting hammered with flagrant fouls, or getting whistled for ticky-tack offenses. Does the WNBA (refs included) hate their biggest star?
Here’s an article from a couple of days ago about dirty fouls being done on Clark and not getting caught by officials at the time.
No idea but I know during the Olympics the right wing media was pushing the theory that she was left off due to anti-white racism. May or may not be related.
She’s, for some reason I don’t know, a lightning rod for right wingers.
At work someone mentioned something similar to the OP, and mr. right wing in the office mentioned that his feed shows pictures of her adam’s apple. I don’t want to know how he ended up with such an algorithm.
My kid (college age) has become a huge WNBA fan in the last year, largely because of the splash that Caitlin Clark made.
She says it’s unfortunate that Clark has effectively become a hero to the racist and homophobic crowd, because she herself isn’t really doing anything to attract that support.
And yes I see those videos all the time. I’ve never followed the wnba online ever.
Hmmmm….im also seeing clips of Angel Reese playing poorly. Perhaps to make some sort of racist point. If that’s the case, I want off of this algorithm.
Female athletes clearly must meet certain standards of femininity!
Sometimes you just can’t win!
Three out of the first five posts on my Facebook feed are attacking the WNBA for not protecting or projecting Clark enough.
I’ve seen the same.
The impression I get (I have a passing awareness of the WNBA; I don’t follow it closely) is that Reese and Clark are rivals.
And Reese is apparently a horrible shooter (I looked it up a few weeks ago, due to aforementioned clips, and she was in the 30% range*).
I guess she gets a lot of second chance shots, though, because fans had derisively started calling her boards “me-bounds” (as in, rebounding your own shot).
And in a if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em move, Reese has trademarked the phrase.
As to the OP, I believe that Clark is one of the better players in the league (a quick googling tells me she hold the record for assists in a game - 19- and has had several games with more than 20 points and 10 assists). So a lot of teams try to rough her up - I guess it’s getting extreme.
It seems the WNBA is like the NBA in the late 80s/early 90s, when players like Bill Lambier and Charles Oakley roamed the paint.
*38.4%, per my current Google search.
There’s some wingnuts on the internet who like to spend time poring over photos of women celebrities pointing out evidence they’re actually transgender. These “transvestigators” (YouTube link), believe a number of prominent women were identified male at birth and are now female because of the machinations of the New World Order or the Illuminati or something like that.
Yeah, Brittney Griner is another favorite of the right. They’re convinced that she’s a biological male, too, and nothing will dissuade them from believing otherwise.
Well, the Fever went and got themselves an enforcer, Sophie Cunningham, who used to start in Phoenix but whose job is now to come in and fuck you up if you fuck with Clark. Cunningham, who looks oddly similar to Blake Lively and might be almost as mean, and who is a guard without much of a shot, has already gotten into some scraps. The fans in Indiana love her. Her jerseys are flying off the shelves. She’s the most popular player to ever average four points a game. People have a soft spot for charismatic goons.
I was absolutely certain this would happen and I’m on record as saying it would. What the hell else was Indiana going to do? If you let the star players get assaulted, the star players’ teams will employ someone to assault you back.
I won’t lie, I have no doubt she would destroy me.
I imagine that ball as my head.
She’d probably have your head in her other hand so she could keep playing 
She’s 6”1’ and a black belt in taekwondo. I would just surrender.
Yes, it was completely predictable that either Caitlin Clark herself would start to get violent, or the Fever would hire a goon. For anyone who’s not aware of just how bad the situation got, 17% of all flagrant fouls in the league last year were against Clark, and IMO that number could have been much higher if the refs were calling things correctly.
I hadn’t even realized that an “enforcer” was a thing, in basketball.
As long as the sports media keeps hyping Clark as the Taylor Swift of women’s basketball, she’ll be targeted by resentful opponents.
Dennis Rodman, for one. Great rebounder, too, of course, but also known for his intimidating presence.