Women’s basketball seems to be the locus of our stupid national controversies of late, and I’m going to surmise that is part and parcel of the legacy media push to force the game into the cultural mainstream. You’ve seen countless articles and hot takes by woke radio and TV sports talkers claiming the women’s game is somehow better than that of the men, a view that — without insulting the women, who have a perfectly defensible and entertaining brand of basketball in their own right — is absurd.
And the same people pushing this politicized line of discussion are hard at work trying to use controversy to get attention for the game.
Last week it was the dumb narrative, spread on the right and then fueled as a “conservatives pounce” story in left-wing media, about Louisiana State University’s women’s team missing the National Anthem at its Elite Eight game against Iowa. This column handled that already.
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