Whew.... given the money and attention given to the WNBA by straight white men, I'll bet we're all relieved by this...
I assume you're asking this in an academic sense, because only a king sized
**** would suggest that since straight white men don't give a
**** about women's sports it doesn't matter to anybody.
Why do you care ?
Wilber has mentioned more than a few times that he's a proud granddad whose granddaughters are involved in sports.
If he didn't have granddaughters who were in sports, would he have a right to voice an opinion?
You're not trans and you don't play sports... why do YOU care? Do YOU get to have an opinion?
I am guessing that you're trying to advance the notion that this is concern-trolling. That since straight white men don't watch WNBA on TV, straight white men who claim to be concerned about fairness for female athletes are not being sincere.
Jesse Brown advanced a similar argument in THEGREATESTPODCASTEVER: "LOLOLOL, these right wingers suddenly pretending they care about marginalized, racialized aestheticians! When did right wingers start caring about racialized, marginalized women?" I said at the time, and I still believe this to be true: that is a spectacularly dumb argument to advance because it begs the question: don't YOU care about those racialized, marginalized women?
I've never understood the accusation of "concern trolling" as a debate tactic. Even if a subject isn't a personal concern for the person making the argument, the subject is a personal concern for somebody, and we're still allowed to be concerned about issues that don't directly affect us. If you're mocking somebody's concern for an issue, you're making an implicit argument that the issue isn't worth being concerned over.
-k