🚨 THIS RIGHT HERE IS WHY THE WNBA’S OLD-GUARD CULTURE KEEPS COLLIDING WITH ITS NEW AUDIENCE🚨🚨 Listen to what is being discussed in this video👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 The argument is essentially that there is an inner social circle within the WNBA, particularly among LGBTQ players and longtime members of the league, and once that group decides what the acceptable position is, everybody else is expected to fall in line. And apparently questioning that dynamic itself becomes the problem. THAT is an echo chamber. The issue isn’t anybody being gay. Nobody should care who another adult dates. The issue is the idea that one social group gets to establish the league’s cultural rules and everyone outside of that circle is expected to conform, stay quiet or risk being treated like an outsider. That’s EXACTLY the kind of old-guard mentality that desperately needs to disappear. You want the WNBA to grow❓❓ Then understand something: THE LEAGUE IS BIGGER THAN YOUR FRIEND GROUP NOW. New players are coming. Millions of new fans are watching. Different opinions are entering the conversation. Everybody isn’t going to think alike, vote alike, speak alike or agree on every social issue. And they shouldn’t have to. If your version of “inclusion” only works when everybody agrees with YOU, that’s not inclusion. That’s conformity. The WNBA wanted mainstream attention. Well, congratulations. Mainstream attention comes with people who don’t live inside your bubble.

🚨 SYDNEY COLSON’S ARGUMENT IS EXACTLY WHAT’S WRONG WITH IDENTITY POLITICS. 🚨 “Black women built this league.” “Black queer women built this league.” “We’re the majority…” OKAY… SO WHAT?! Black women have been enormously important to the WNBA. Black queer women have been enormously important to the WNBA. Nobody is denying that. But apparently somebody needs to explain this: IMPORTANT ≠ OWNERSHIP. You don’t get to minimize every straight woman, white woman, owner, executive, coach, fan, sponsor and player who helped build this league because you’ve decided YOUR demographic deserves the loudest microphone. And you DAMN SURE don’t get to imply: “WE BUILT IT. WE’RE THE MAJORITY. WE DECIDE WHAT INCLUSION MEANS. EVERYBODY ELSE FALL IN LINE.” 🚨 HELL NO. 🚨 Your RACE doesn’t make your opinion law. Your SEXUALITY doesn’t make your argument untouchable. Being the MAJORITY doesn’t give you intellectual ownership over everybody else. And here’s the hilarious part: The WNBA has literally had TWO BLACK WOMEN RUN THE LEAGUE — LAUREL RICHIE AND LISA BORDERS. So spare me this idea that one particular demographic gets to plant a flag in the middle of the WNBA and declare: “THIS IS OUR LEAGUE.” No. YOU HAVE A SEAT AT THE TABLE. YOU HAVE A VOICE AT THE TABLE. YOU DESERVE RESPECT AT THE TABLE. But you do NOT own the fucking table. And you damn sure don’t get to tell everybody else sitting there what they’re allowed to think. @SydJColson @espnW @WNBA