I was recently permanently banned on a popular basketball forum that is NBA oriented … for merely comparing something to the WNBA in a light that was not considered acceptable.

The post in question that got me banned was discussing how the NBA is turning into the WNBA with respect to a lack of physicality and players generally not being durable.

This comment was “striked” by a mod as “misogynistic” and “furthering sexist tropes”. My question to this is how is that furthering sexist tropes when women bear children and are not known for their physical nature in the context of sports. That’s not being a misogynist…its called living in reality the way it was made.

Some further tidbits: Game 1 of the 2025 NBA finals saw Tyrese Haliburton go down with an ACL injury effectively turning game 7 into a concession game with favor to OKC. I do believe all of the NBA is rigged including these injuries and I suspect they are doing this intentionally to promote the WNBA. (At least in part)

I was previously warned over making “misogynistic comments” on this forum over the WNBA despite nothing being that flagrant or clearly directed at insulting other users.

I find this entire trend very concerning and disturbing that simply having freedom of speech to lightly poke fun, or critique something like the WNBA can be taken so far as to censor and punish online users. The forum in question I was banned from is arguably just as popular, if not more popular, than the r / NBA subreddit and has been around for many years.

Manufacturing the WNBA: It seems the WNBA has received tons of marketing dollars with all the manufactured hype that has appeared out of no where.

YouTube channels that have been focused on NBA content historically are now seemingly being paid to push WNBA videos out of nowhere.

This never happened pre-2024 and it seems to correlate with the manufacturing of more agenda-driven athletes such as Caitlin Clark.