Candice Wiggins: I was bullied for being straight in '98% gay' WNBA

alioufall · Feb 22, 2017

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ColiBreh1 · Feb 22, 2017

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/sd-sp-wiggins-20170221-story.html

Amid backlash, Wiggins stands by controversial WNBA comments

By Tod Leonard 2/21/2017

Candice Wiggins refused to back down Tuesday after stirring a national controversy following her assertions that she was mistreated by gay players in the WNBA because she is heterosexual.

Saying her comments “freed my spirit,” Wiggins told the San Diego Union-Tribune that she received positive reaction from those close to her, as well as private thanks from other WNBA players who Wiggins said experienced what she did.

“There’s nothing that I would take back. I’m not really in a position of taking things back right now,” Wiggins, 30, said. “I’m going forward.

“I know it sounds heartless, but I don’t care. I understand what my purpose and the intent of my words are, and I’m responsible for my words. I’m not responsible for how people perceived them.

“I’m not sorry for saying what needs to be said,” Wiggins said. “And I’m not patting myself on the back. It wasn’t brave, but it would have been cowardly for me not to do it.”

In an interview with the Union-Tribune published Monday, Wiggins said she experienced a “toxic” and “very, very harmful” culture during her eight seasons in the WNBA, where she asserts other people were driven by jealousy and resentment to bully her.

"Me being heterosexual and straight, and being vocal in my identity as a straight woman was huge," Wiggins told the Union-Tribune. "I would say 98 percent of the women in the WNBA are gay women. It was a conformist type of place. There was a whole different set of rules they (the other players) could apply."

There is no data on the number of gay women in the WNBA, and some commentaries about the story questioned Wiggins’ “98 percent” number. She said Tuesday that she used that figure more to be illustrative than factual.

“It was my way to illustrate the isolation that I felt personally,” Wiggins said. “I felt like the 2 percent versus the 98 percent. It felt that way to me. And it’s not just the players. It was the coaches. It was the leaders.”

The WNBA has declined to respond to Wiggins’ comments.

Nneka Ogwumike, president of the WNBA Players Association, said in a statement: “Whether one agrees or disagrees with the comments made recently by a former player, or whether one has seen or experienced anything like what she has described, anything that impacts an inclusive culture should be taken seriously.”

Current WNBA players took to social media to express themselves about Wiggins’ opinions.

Imani Boyette, a WNBA Chicago Sky player and married daughter of former USC and WNBA player Pam McGee, wrote an 842-word open letter to Wiggins on her website.

“I was sad because that was your reality,” Boyette wrote. “I’m sorry you were bullied and felt that way during your career. Bullying is serious and no one deserves it. I hope you know that says more about the people who chose to mistreat you than you yourself.”

Boyette continued, “Your article hurt me Candice, both as a fellow WNBA player and as a little girl who looked up to you. You chose to typecast an entire league instead of speaking your peace, telling your truth. You chose to put all of us down, fans included. How can you turn your back on the entity that gave you your career, your upcoming book, and your worldwide acclaim? I think that’s selfish.”

Boyette concluded, “I have never experienced the bullying you spoke about, and I hope no one else ever does. Thank you for telling your truth.”

In a blog, San Antonio forward Monique Currie wrote that in her 11 seasons in the WNBA she has never experienced or witnessed the bullying that Wiggins described.

“Although this interview caused quite a stir, maybe, just maybe, these experiences were real,” Currie wrote.

Currie said of the “pink elephant in the room” in regards to Wiggins’ “98 percent” comment: “It’s fair to say that’s a stretch, however, it’s fair to say that during a span of eight years in the WNBA there were possibly more gay players than non-gay players. Does this matter in the grand scheme of things? No. But it does matter to someone who’s not in the majority. Perception is real.”

Currie also said, “Wiggins needs to check her privilege at the door, and not group her very unfortunate personal experiences on an entire group of women.”

Wiggins was a four-time All-American at Stanford and set school and Pac-10 scoring records there. She was drafted No. 3 overall in the WNBA in 2008 and spent most of her career as a backup. She won a championship with the Minnesota Lynx in 2011 and retired before the 2016 season.

On Tuesday evening, Wiggins was among the 2017 class that was inducted into the Breitbard Hall of Fame at the San Diego Hall of Champions.

In addition to her contentions of mistreatment, Wiggins ripped the 20-year-old WNBA as a “survival league” that “nobody cares about.” Her critics Tuesday claimed she was hurting the very entity that supported her career.

“I don’t think the league is any more damaged than it already was,” Wiggins said.

Wiggins is currently writing a book based on what she documented in journals during her WNBA career. She said her current comments are merely the “first layer” of what she has to say.
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I'm not surprised at all.

Thump · Feb 22, 2017

I've read comments people have posted about this on a couple of sports forums. A lot of people are skeptical of her claims, several seem to imply that only heterosexuals bully people because of their sexual orientation. I don't know how true her statements are, but anytime someone is in a group with people who share a majority opinion/mindset/behavior, it can feel very intimidating to people in a minority position.

ColiBreh1 · Feb 22, 2017

Thump said: ↑

I've read comments people have posted about this on a couple of sports forums. A lot of people are skeptical of her claims, several seem to imply that only heterosexuals bully people because of their sexual orientation. I don't know how true her statements are, but anytime someone is in a group with people who share a majority opinion/mindset/behavior, it can feel very intimidating to people in a minority position.
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I saw a chick on another forum give her perspective from playing H.S. Basketball as a straight female:

I stopped playing in high school for the same reasons.

As a straight girl it can be hell. To put it in perspective for you guys, imagine you are one of two straight players on a team full of Simon Adibisi (From HBO's "Oz") types who try you every single day you're together. And the first time you shut one down and tell them chill you're not into dykes they want to fist fight.

To a woman, a 6 foot 200 lb+ woman with a body of muscle is like Simon Adibisi. Who wants to have to fight ugly bytches and mess up their faces just to play basketball? Who wants an elbow from an obsessed/jealous dyke to fukk up their pretty?

And to those to say ignore it, thats what we did but those Adibisi dykes are habitual line steppers. Whether it be grabbing your ass, slapping/grabbing your ass randomly on some good game shyt even in street clothes, or you turning around in the shower to 3 dykes watching you shower. Girls using sex toys on girls who have yet to even be with a man, of course you will turn her out, she's 14 and her first orgasm was from a woman and all her teammates give her props for finally "not being a scared little girl"

The same way you guys have Sanduskys and other predatory types and a system that protects them, the woman's game is even more institutionalized with lesbian pedos

Pokey Chatman, all-American point guard and ex head coach of LSU had affairs with many of her players over the year including WNBA star Seimone Augustus, and when it came to light she was allowed to resign. She was known as one of the best recruiters in basketball when she stepped down and spent time with most of her players from the time they were 13-14 year old recruits. Was she ostracized like Joe Pa before he died? No, she went to coach in russia, came back and got not one but two head Coaching + GM jobs in the WNBA. Her assistant that blew the whistle on her, Carla Berry, was also her backcourt partner when they were players and she was let go at the end of the season and hasn't been seen since (this happened in 1997).

The coach who was fukking her players moved up in her profession, while the one who exposed these affairs was blackballed. That's how deep lesbianism goes in woman's basketball.
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andreboba · Feb 22, 2017

That's fucked up. I always assumed from word of mouth that women's basketball of all women's sports had the highest number of lesbians but I thought it was maybe 50-55%. This makes it sound like at least 70-80% of women basketball players in college and the pros are gay.

It's so hard to believe since the rate of homosexuality for the general population is between 5% and 15%, depending on what study you read.
Then to find out some of these women are straight up sexual predators and not being held accountable for whatever reason....WTF is that about???

If you have daughters into sports with the desire and talent to play in HS and beyond, TALK TO THEM and find out what's happening in that lockerroom.
Then talk to the head coach to get a feel for what the environment is like.
I've always taken it for granted you could turn someone out and make them gay, since for the most part it's not true.
But stories like this make me reconsider what the old head's in my family used to say, that many gay folk end up that way from child and adolescent sexual abuse.
SHit is so crazy.

And I'm one of those cats who says there's at least a couple of fine females on every basketball team I've ever seen. But the dyke predator shit is insane.

meowkittenmeow · Feb 23, 2017

andreboba said: ↑

That's fucked up. I always assumed from word of mouth that women's basketball of all women's sports had the highest number of lesbians but I thought it was maybe 50-55%. This makes it sound like at least 70-80% of women basketball players in college and the pros are gay.

It's so hard to believe since the rate of homosexuality for the general population is between 5% and 15%, depending on what study you read.
Then to find out some of these women are straight up sexual predators and not being held accountable for whatever reason....WTF is that about???

If you have daughters into sports with the desire and talent to play in HS and beyond, TALK TO THEM and find out what's happening in that lockerroom.
Then talk to the head coach to get a feel for what the environment is like.
I've always taken it for granted you could turn someone out and make them gay, since for the most part it's not true.
But stories like this make me reconsider what the old head's in my family used to say, that many gay folk end up that way from child and adolescent sexual abuse.
SHit is so crazy.

And I'm one of those cats who says there's at least a couple of fine females on every basketball team I've ever seen. But the dyke predator shit is insane.
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Most female sexual predators aren't held accountable.

Rochiebabes86 · Mar 6, 2017

Im not surprised based on my past experiences with AAU, but she's being dramatic about being "bullied"

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