Sex Toy Thrown Onto Court At Illinois WNBA Game…Again

A ratchet trend is going on at WNBA games in the last few weeks.

I'm not sure I can roll my eyes far back enough for this one. Since July 29th, at multiple WNBA games, sex toys have been thrown out onto the court.

The latest happened Thursday night in Chicago, when the Chicago Sky took on the Atlanta Dream. It's the second time a sex toy has been thrown onto the court in Chicago, according to NBC Chicago.

It's also happened in Atlanta (on July 29th), last Friday in Chicago, in Los Angeles on Tuesday, then Chicago again this Thursday.

Be so for real. I've never seen this happen at NBA games.

The WNBA said any spectators caught throwing stuff onto the court face at least a year-long ban and prosecution from law enforcement. The trend is creating problems for arena security, the league, the teams, and the players.

There has been one arrest, specifically for the July 29th incident in Atlanta. The guy's reasoning you ask?: “this was supposed to be a joke and the joke (was) supposed to go viral". He's facing 4 misdemeanor charges, which can each be $1,000 in fines or a year in jail if he's convicted.

The sex toys tosses have happened several more times at games but they did not hit the court.

Why?

Wouldn't ya know: it's a cryptocurrency meme "prank", according to USA Today. It's the "Green Dildo Coin" (meant to be a light-hearted joke, traders of it say). The group's spokesman denied the "pranks" having anything to do with the fact it's the WNBA:

We didn't do this because like we dislike women's sports or, like, some of the narratives that are trending right now are ridiculous. Creating disruption at games is like, it happens in every single sport, right? We've seen it in the NFL, we've seen it in hockey, you know . . . fans doing random things to more or less create attention.

But the sex toy stunts are not randomly impacting the WNBA players. They don't find it funny and are sounding off on social media about security concerns. Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve said this week:

This has been going on for centuries, the sexualization of women. This is the latest version of that. It’s not funny. It should not be the butt of jokes. The sexualization of women is what’s used to hold women down, and this is no different.

And because crypto never sleeps, at least one crypto-based predictions market is offering trades that essentially allow users to wager on whether sex toys will be thrown at future WNBA games.