Haters gonna ...

 Well. You know the rest of that one.

Twice now in the last few days drooling imbeciles have thrown what the media delicately calls "sex toys" on the floor at WNBA games, because ... well, because they're drooling imbeciles. The Blob, less constrained, will identify the "sex toys" by their proper name, which is "dildos." Green ones.

I have no clue as to the significance of the green part.

As to the significance of the dildo part, it seems at least marginally obvious: Women shouldn't be playing basketball. They should be where they belong, in the bedroom (and, of course, the kitchen).

That throwing a dildo on the floor might also be a particular, and particularly weird, swipe at the WNBA's gay players is also a possibility. Of course, I'm just spitballing here. I confess I'm woefully inadequate at divining the motives of anyone who'd throw a dildo at basketball players.

What I do know is this: You don't have to dig very far to expose the misogyny in a certain species of male. It's their default setting, and, if they're sometimes skillful at hiding it, the current political zeitgeist has made that skill increasingly unnecessary. If they think women should be kept barefoot and pregnant, they can come right out and say so now.

Women who challenge such notions, of course, are simply dismissed as "nasty" -- you-know-who's favorite adjective for women who are smarter than he is, more accomplished and not properly worshipful.

So, yeah, throwing dildos at women whose league has become a hit (and who don't give a tinker's damn what the Nasty Woman crowd thinks) was perhaps inevitable. Haters gonna hate, and murky brainpans gonna murk. Or something like that.

And at the risk of stereotyping myself ...

According to my friend and former colleague Michael Rothstein of ESPN, police in Georgia have arrested a suspect in one of the dildo-throwing incidents. He's 23 years old, and his name is Delbert Carver.

Delbert.

Of course.