Recent incidents of fans throwing sex toys on the court during WNBA games have spurred a wide range of reactions from sports lovers online. But one mental health expert has thoughts about what it really conveys to women.
The first reported incident occurred on July 29 during a game in College Park, Georgia, between the Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries. Someone threw a neon green sex toy on the court — when the score was tied with less than a minute left in the game — forcing play to stop momentarily.
Some people online laughed off the incident at the time, with several comparing it to when fans threw sex toys on the field at Buffalo Bills vs. New England Patriots NFL games in 2016 and 2017.
But the sex toy-throwing debacle did not end there. The same thing has occurred at two other WNBA games, on Aug. 1 and again on Tuesday.
When asked about the incident at the Aug. 1 game between host Chicago Sky and the Golden State Valkyries, Sky center Elizabeth Williams told reporters afterward that she thought it was “super disrespectful.”
