On Friday, a second man was arrested for throwing a sex toy, which landed near a nine-year-old child, during a game between the Phoenix Mercury and Connecticut Sun. Kaden Lopez, 18, was tackled by security and later detained on suspicion of disorderly conduct, assault and public display of explicit sexual material.<\/p>\n
The group\u2019s ringleader, who goes by the alias Lt. Aldo Raine, told USA Today that they did not target women\u2019s sport because they dislike it: \u201cWe didn\u2019t do this because, like, we dislike women\u2019s sports or, like, some of the narratives that are trending right now are ridiculous,\u201d but in an interview with Clay Travis on OutKick, he said they\u2019d targeted the WNBA because it was \u201cbeing forced down our throats\u201d.<\/p>\n
After the first game, the cryptocurrency group discussed other events they could target, including other women\u2019s sports. One member said, \u201cWhat about other women\u2019s sports, is there like pro soccer and stuff in the states?\u201d<\/p>\n
Another replied, \u201cIn Europe, bro, they\u2019re trying to push pro women\u2019s soccer so hard, they\u2019re trying to push that shit and people just don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n
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On Friday (AEST), Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve said action needed to be taken against the perpetrators.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis has been going on for centuries, the sexualisation of women. This is the latest version of that, and it is not funny,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The group also discussed throwing toys at a Lady Gaga concert in Seattle on August 6, the Weeknd in Houston on August 30, and the US Open tennis tournament. A sex toy of the same colour was also visible behind the catcher in a baseball game between the Houston Astros and the Miami Marlins on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, a second man was arrested for throwing a sex toy, which landed near a nine-year-old child,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-52728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}