Listen up WNBA fans, players are fed up with sex toy bit, so can you please keep it in your pants?

Almost the entirety of the internet thought the incident was hilarious and quickly got busy making memes.

But then it just kept happening.

The bizarre trend continued a few days later at an August 1 game between the Valkyries and the Chicago Sky. The third time this happened, Indian Fever star Sophie Cunningham ended up getting hit in the head with the sex toy after telling people on X (formerly Twitter) to “stop throwing dildos on the court… you’re going to hurt one of us.”

Then, someone tried to throw another green dildo at a New York Liberty game, but instead of it landing on the court, it nearly hit a child, according to a video posted on social media.

Once a sex toy almost nails a kid in the head, it’s time to look at what we’re doing.

At first, we wondered if this wasn’t a funny, tongue-in-cheek way to call out just how sapphic the game has gotten, but now that a man has been arrested and said that it was “supposed to be a joke” and “go viral,” the intentions seem more problematic.

Being taken seriously as a female athlete is already a tough assignment, and having sex toys flying left and right during games isn’t helping, especially at a time when WNBA players are fighting for better compensation and revenue sharing.

Bottom line: women’s sports are not a joke. And while we’d like to think this started as a harmless prank that gave us all a chuckle, it’s starting to smack of sexism.

In the beginning even some of the players seemed to laugh along. Fever guard Sydney Colson even went on her podcast dressed a green dildo, but then things kept escalating and other players started pointing out how “disrespectful” and “dangerous” it is.

“It’s super disrespectful,” Sky center Elizabeth Williams said after he game against the Valkyries, per Front Office Sports. “I don’t really get the point of it. It’s really immature. Whoever’s doing it just needs to grow up.”

Sparks coach Lynne Roberts also said, “It’s ridiculous, it’s dumb, it’s stupid. It’s also dangerous. Player safety is number one, respecting the game, all those things. I think it’s really stupid.”

And GOAT Diana Taurasi had the perfect response for the jokesters, “I would have picked that thing up and thrown it right back at them.”

Maybe we should all just listen to the players themselves.

So whoever is keeping this “joke” going, whether they are straight or gay, it’s time to call it quits. The bit is getting tired anyway, right?