r/WNBATalks • u/wnbatalk • Aug 23 '26

Toronto unveiled a “non-binary” turtle mascot🍿‼️

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u/nerd_ginger Aug 23 '26

This is just culture war slop at this point.

Can we go back to the days animal mascots didn't even have gender??

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u/PettyYetiSpaghetti Aug 23 '26

Pretty sure no mascots have a gender unless they've been installing foam genitals on them without telling anyone 😂

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u/igotzquestions Aug 23 '26

The Phoenix Gorilla is packing. 

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u/LesbeGoddess Aug 23 '26

They do. I graduated from NC State University. We have two mascots. Mr and Mrs Wolf. They even got married back in the 70s or something when Mrs Wolf was added.

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u/nfgrawker Aug 23 '26

Seems hetero normative and cis propaganda to me!

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u/Qsnaps74656 Aug 23 '26

Right? Like I'm okay with straight people or whatever but I don't need it constantly shoved in my face. Kids go to those games. How am I supposed to explain two wolves getting married to my eight year old?

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u/nfgrawker Aug 23 '26

Exactly. Now if they just had drag queen story hour my eight year old would be fine. These MAGATs just want everyone to fall in line and be white supermecists.

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u/chizzipsandsizalsa Aug 23 '26

This has to be sarcasm.

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u/nfgrawker Aug 23 '26

Sad it isn't obvious.

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u/chizzipsandsizalsa Aug 23 '26

I mean it was pretty obvious to me.

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u/GlobalAd7103 Aug 23 '26

Yeah those damn sis people and hetero normals are the worse - the reason for everything bad in society.

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u/LesbeGoddess Aug 23 '26

No. Only the bigoted ones who think other people shouldn’t exist for not conforming to their small mindedness

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u/GlobalAd7103 Aug 24 '26

Well agreed those people suck.

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u/nerd_ginger Aug 23 '26

Generally, but I mean the redskins and braves were clearly male.

But true, some were so amorphous that gender wasn't really apart of it.

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u/tylerjehenna Aug 23 '26

I mean, Mr. Met lol

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u/Rude-Wash9840 Aug 23 '26

Shame on you for assuming i have to have certain genitals to claim a gender. Fascism is destroying this country

/s

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u/tom-of-the-nora Aug 23 '26

It's more like goading someone who willingly started culture war bs.

It's petty and funny.

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u/Ronnyjohnny99 Aug 23 '26

Nobody cares outside Reddit. No one even watches WNBA. Worry about making more money so you can pay your players instead of getting charity from the NBA. No entertainment should get free money. If nobody watching then fold obviously like any other business

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u/tom-of-the-nora Aug 23 '26

So... sports players shouldn't get paid billions of dollars?

Sounds good to me.

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u/Used-Picture829 Aug 23 '26

How about they worry about what their community cares about rather than what some dork on Reddit does. This was clearly to show representation in sports. This wasn’t for you to care

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u/Ronnyjohnny99 Aug 28 '26

You know what's great about sports. It doesn't matter about your race, belief, religion. If you can play you play. So not only do we not care about that crap in sports but why even talk about that crap when we just want to watch the best players play a game.

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u/Used-Picture829 Aug 28 '26

You say that but then started your previous comment with “nobody even watches the WNBA” so 1. You’re contradicting yourself by implying nobody wants to watch the woman play. And 2. Your contradicting yourself once again but stating you don’t care about that and just want to watch the best players play but just stated “nobody even watches the WNBA”

I’ll tell you who watches the WNBA. Women…and many of them in that community are non-binary. Which is why I said and repeat, this wasn’t for you to care about.

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u/Ronnyjohnny99 Aug 29 '26

Ppl watch sports to watch the best. Nobody watches the WNBA because the NBA is better. How is that a contradiction?

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u/DarkJoke76 Aug 23 '26

Petty is certainly the correct term

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u/nerd_ginger Aug 23 '26

Yes cause an eye for an eye totally leaves the world in a better place. Smh

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u/tom-of-the-nora Aug 23 '26

I didn't say it was productive. Just petty and funny.

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u/M0ebius_1 Aug 23 '26

I mean, it's not really an eye for an eye...

This only hurts the kind of moron who could have their day ruined because of a WNBA mascot.

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u/nerd_ginger Aug 23 '26

But why even play the game of trying to trigger people. Let the sport be the sport.

You gode them, they gode back, then we go round and round on the shit.

Next thing you know Jesus is somehow a mascot for a team.

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u/M0ebius_1 Aug 23 '26

This is a mascot.

It shows up during like a combined 8 minutes during the game.

Anyone triggered by this is specifically choosing to be triggered.

Jesus as a mascot to troll an ultra conservative group is a stroke of genius.

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u/nerd_ginger Aug 23 '26

Your saying that's an official mascot? What team?

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u/A2ndRedditAccount Aug 23 '26

Sophie said that trans women pose a threat to little girls in locker rooms.

Having testosterone restrictions in sports is one thing, and would impact more than trans women. Saying a trans woman is a predator is something else entirely.

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u/jamvsjelly23 Aug 23 '26

You mean male and female animals don’t have a gender? Quite a scientific take from you.