Sue Chicken thinks the WNBA and its gamers deserve extra credit score for what they had been in a position to accomplish in 2020. Chicken in contrast the WNBA’s lack of consideration to how the US ladies’s nationwide crew was handled in 2019, telling CNN she believes the distinction is a matter of the demographics in every sport.

Chicken believes the rationale the USWNT acquired extra reward and respect is as a result of, “Soccer gamers, usually, are cute little white women.”

“To be fully blunt, but in addition sort of easy,” Chicken defined. “Soccer gamers, usually, are cute little white women. And I feel basketball gamers, we’re all sizes and shapes. We have now … 70 to 80 % Black ladies. Loads of homosexual ladies. We’re tall. We’re huge. And I feel there’s simply perhaps like this intimidation issue with that. Individuals are fast to speak about it, decide it, put it down. And soccer, you simply don’t see that simply based mostly on how they give the impression of being.”

Chicken expands on that time, saying she believes the distinction isn’t attributable to how the sports activities are marketed, however how society perceives the gamers.

“How society and the way the skin world is keen to simply accept the lovable lady subsequent door, however not keen to simply accept or embrace or, I suppose, not decide these basketball gamers, who’re tall, Black, homosexual. That’s sort of, to me, the place the difficulty is.”

Whereas these quotes make it appear to be Chicken is taking a shot at her girlfriend — USWNT star Megan Rapinoe — that’s not the case. Rapinoe proposed the identical argument in an article on The Gamers’ Tribune in October.

Rapinoe: Racism, homophobia impression WNBA’s notion

In that piece, Rapinoe argues that WNBA gamers needs to be thought to be greater than superheroes for what they had been in a position to accomplish in 2020. The WNBA has been in entrance on numerous racial and social points, and carried that over into the 2020 season, which they devoted to Breonna Taylor. In a yr the place almost each main sports activities league has seen rankings decline, WNBA rankings jumped considerably.

Rapinoe believes WNBA gamers deserve extra credit score for that, however don’t get it attributable to racism and homophobia, in accordance with The Gamers’ Tribune.

This nation has a deep historical past of racism, and a deep historical past of homophobia.

And in the event you have a look at the gamers within the W: Most of them are Black, and numerous them are homosexual.

She explains that she’s happy with what the USWNT achieved in 2019, however that the dialog surrounding the crew was incomplete.

And what I imply by that’s: Relating to U.S. ladies’s soccer, the final notion is that — let’s face it — we’re the white women subsequent door. The straight, “cute,” “unthreatening,” “suburban” white women subsequent door. It’s not really who we’re — the WNT’s racial variety, although not but the place it must be, is bettering yearly. And, you realize, breaking information … I’m homosexual. However by and huge, that’s the notion. And it’s definitely how we’re marketed to lots of people.

Rapinoe continues by saying she believes feminism ought to prolong “from race to class to faith to gender id to sexual orientation to every little thing in between.” She doesn’t need folks to solely purchase into the kind of feminism that extends to “white women subsequent door” as a result of that’s how folks understand the USWNT.

Sue Chicken trying to proceed dominant run in 2020 Olympics

After main the Seattle Storm to a different championship, Chicken will take a brief break earlier than prepping for the delayed 2020 Olympics. Chicken has gained 4 Olympic gold medals with Staff USA up to now, and will likely be on the lookout for her fifth gold medal in 2021.

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