One: "Arriving a few minutes before tip-off gave me time to survey the crowd, which had a real anti-Bill-Bennett-family-values flair -- an eclectic mix of brownies, girl scouts, lesbians and gamblers."

Two: "Like most products of academe, the WNBA is silly, useless, waaaaay overhyped.... and un-killable... Ya'll should know by now that actual facts -- that the WNBA makes less money than your average panhandling wino on an off day; that its ratings are lower than the Bible Channel; that its fan base is coterminous with that of the Ellen Degeneres Show -- mean nothing to university types."

Three: "The USA got the WNBA, big whoop. Lisa Leslie is half man, she even has a peenie."

Four: "I imagine the natural retort to that would be the suggestion to watch the WNBA, but I think those women actually have more testosterone than the male players."

Five: "the WNBA is awful. The audience is made up of bull-dike women who are mostly softball and vollyball coaches... Another thing, I don't really like watching large, manly-looking women sweat... Bottom line...any women who has a bigger shoe size than I do, weighs more than me, or pinches out larger loafs on a consistent basis better be a lesbian because no women-loving man is ever going to ask them out."

Six: "When I bought my tickets for the Storm I went expecting to see families that were daughter-heavy, teenaged girls that play ball themselves and women taking their daughters out. What I saw was flannel and short haircuts on women."

Seven: "Aside from the whole "fundamentals" thing, what else do they have to offer? The women aren't even nice to look at... Rebecca Lobo looks like a horse."

Eight: "The mass majority of the women in the WNBA are hideous... But guys have virtually nothing pleasing to look at. Just a bunch of big, sweaty, ugly girls trying to play a game that they cannot play as well as men."

Nine: "Beyond checking the courtside seats for Portia de Rossi, there's not a whole lot to be entertained by in the WNBA."

Ten: "I don’t have a problem with women playing recreational sports on an occasional basis, just with them playing competitive sports on a regular day-to-day basis. This rigorous physical and mental training tends to make women more masculine... The Bible talks about women developing a quiet and gentle spirit; I think sports fosters anything but that. They instead develop a competitive and contentious spirit that will cause them to have great difficulty in their marriages. I already mentioned that the effort expended on sports will hinder the development of wifely duties around the home; even worse is when a man has to compete against his own wife in the workplace and community."

Catharine MacKinnon (from Women, Self-Possession, and Sport (1982)):

I suggest that we can tell we've broken some rules when people start calling us what they consider epithets. We all know that women athletes are considered unfeminine. This is integrally related to the fact that women athletes are experienced as having physical self-respect. We also know that women athletes are routinely accused, explicitly or implicitly, of being lesbian... What does it say about the relation between sexuality and physicality, what does it tell us in particular about the content of heterosexuality, that when a woman comes to own her own body, that makes her heterosexuality problematic?