WNBA Coach Cheryl Reeve Livid Over Sex Toy Throwing, ‘It’s Not Funny’

Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve has had sufficient of the intercourse toy throwing pattern at WNBA video games … telling reporters Thursday it is contributing to the sexualization of girls that “has been occurring for hundreds of years.”

Reeve made her opinion loud and clear following her scheduled media availability, saying anybody who continues to hurl the objects onto courts “ought to be held accountable.”

“We’re not the butt of the joke,” she mentioned, sternly. “They’re the issue. And we have to take motion.”

Two alleged intercourse toy throwers — a 23-year-old in Georgia and an 18-year-old in Arizona — have already been arrested over the acts … but it surely’s clear, Reeve thinks extra ought to be carried out.

“It is not humorous,” the coach mentioned. “It shouldn’t be the butt of jokes on any radio present or in print or any feedback. The sexualization of girls is what’s used to carry ladies down. And that is no totally different. That is simply its newest type.”

“And it’s best to write about it in that manner.”

Reeve is way from the one coach to talk out in regards to the matter. Lynne Roberts — the L.A. Sparks’ sideline supervisor — was pissed off on Tuesday after their sport in opposition to the Fever was interrupted by one of many neon inexperienced objects.

“It is ridiculous, it is dumb, it is silly,” Roberts mentioned. “It is also harmful. Participant security is No. 1, respecting the sport, all these issues. I feel it is actually silly.”