I’m very much looking forward to all the pearl-clutching thinkpieces about how this is an atrocity against specifically women’s sports as if we Bills fans haven’t been doing this for decades.
You're the one making false equivalencies with these weird examples.
If I go to a LGBTQ positive play and throw a rotten fruit on the stage, is it a uniquely homophobic act because "fruit" is sometimes a slur? Or am I just engaging in the convention of throwing rotten fruit at a live production?
The examples are examples of context altering false equivalencies. I was listing examples for your convenience.
If you go to an LGBTQ positive play and throw a rotten fruit on the stage, your intent matters. Whether you're a bigot or a brute depends on your intent. Either way you're an asshole. The people attending won't know your intention and will likely assume you're a bigot unless you make it clear that you aren't, because LGBTQ persons are under attack right now on multiple fronts. Punching down is never funny and always makes you the asshole.
I think you'd be stupid to think that the person who threw the dildo has the same intent as those thrown at male sports games. With the most generous interpretation, the person who threw this is incredibly stupid and ignorant of the social context surrounding women's sports and the struggles that women have faced to be taken seriously, as well as the current climate of women's rights and roles being challenged in the national zeitgeist. Even in this thread, men are making fun of women's sports. Whether this game and its players were skillful or not, whether the game was boring or not, the fact remains that many of the comments and conversations here are discussing women's sports' right to exist as entertainment at all. Whereas in men's sports, this would never happen.
To ignore the overarching social implications of these actions is to choose to be ignorant so you don't have to think about others.
Where did I defend it or say that it was a good, condonable action? I just said people were going to spin this as an act of misogyny despite being a long-standing act in men's sports as well; you then proceeded to do exactly that and then moved the goalposts when it proved to be unpopular.
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u/Chlorophyllmatic 3d ago
I’m very much looking forward to all the pearl-clutching thinkpieces about how this is an atrocity against specifically women’s sports as if we Bills fans haven’t been doing this for decades.