{"id":77141,"date":"2025-08-17T20:34:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/77141\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T20:34:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:34:14","slug":"washington-university-professor-on-sex-toy-incidents-at-wnba-games-newstalk-kzrg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/77141\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington University professor on sex toy incidents at WNBA games \u2013 Newstalk KZRG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"780\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/karen-balayan-jkTDYdvjQiU-unsplash-780x470.jpg\" class=\"attachment-jannah-image-post size-jannah-image-post wp-post-image\" alt=\"Karen balayan jktdydvjqiu unsplash\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Missourinet) \u2013 Multiple pro-women\u2019s basketball games have been interrupted in recent days\u2026 after brightly colored sex toys were thrown onto courts.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant director of American Culture Studies at Washu, Noah Cohan says the message that the perpetrators are trying to send is that women aren\u2019t welcome in sports. And one way to do that is to sexualize them and one way to sexualize them is to use a sex toy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe offenders say they\u2019re just trying to be funny and create a viral moment, but it\u2019s part of a centuries-long attempt to keep women out of sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately for the perpetrators, the WNBA is here to stay. It\u2019s growing. It\u2019s bigger than ever. That may be part of the reason they chose it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The women\u2019s National Basketball Association has condemned the actions and promised bans and prosecution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Missourinet) \u2013 Multiple pro-women\u2019s basketball games have been interrupted in recent days\u2026 after brightly colored sex toys were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-77141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}