Pucking snowflakes.
blasphemy man, get hold of yourself. you’re losing it.
as society evolves, so does it’s sport. Hockey in the 80’s was different, so was the times.
in Roman times there used to be whole stadiums full of people watching gladiators fight to the death…
In 100 years time the only sport played will be non-competitive yoghurt knitting.
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I do think that film was a grotesque of hockey’s worst excesses. But so enjoyable to watch. Should be required watching before posting here.
makes you wonder what football will look like in 100 years
it was the hockey equivalent of Bull Durham
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The only thing I remember about that is Paul Newman and the psycopathic triplets beating the shit out of everyone.
Now I have to download it to re-watch.
Slap Shot was 1970’s hockey, not 80’s. It really was deplorable for most of it, with the Flyers the absolute nadir.
I know who the Broad St Bullies were. 80’s were barely any better, let’s be realistic. Semenko, Crowder, Probert, Williams, Domi, Nilan, Brown. all goons, but their job was to protect the team goal scorers from being pummelled. Rock’em Sock’em hockey, right? You people…
Psst. Quick. Rename “The Hockey Thread.” Maybe no one will notice.
The two have a significant crossover - Semmy will remember Gino Odjick, who basically learned to fight to NHL-grade goon status walking home to Kitigan Zibi from school in Maniwaki.
remember him? I was out with a few buddies in a bar downtown in the 90’s and met Gino and Pavel. Good guys. That’s when I found out Pavel smoked like a chimney. Probably explains why his career was so short .
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10 years later, same bar. Met Brashear, Bertuzzi and Morrison (Local guy). Brashear had 5lb sledgehamers for fists, shook his hand and I knew he could literally break my hand with his grip if he chose to.
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ahh yes, next to the speed skating LOL
Is it genderism/sexist for me to say or believe that women don’t deal with online abuse as well as men do due to insecurities maybe not being as thick skinned or having weaker mental capability?
I’d rather say that they face more of it, which addresses your question about capacity, and they also have to face down societal stereotypes of them being frail little wilting flowers.
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Why do you think people would not call out problematic stuff in person?
Everyone has at least one bad take in their head about groups of people who aren’t them and in most cases this is not a reflection of malice. Similarly, maybe they have a reasonable take but don’t have the modern language to express it in a non-problematic way. As a man in my early 20s who grew up somewhere where non-whites were practically non-existent and there was not a single out gay kid in school I learned this a LOT during my early 20s. I was fortunate enough that in that period in my life I had people around me who showed me grace for my missteps and introduced me to more enlightened ideas. Without those people being willing to call me out when they did I wouldn’t have learned any better. So, I am a better person for having been called out and I hope that people who know better will continue to keep calling me out when my white hetro cis male experiences and vantage point of the world next allows me to make an arse of myself.
While I think there is some responsibility to call out these things in productive ways (calling someone a racist is unlikely to get much in the way of positive outcomes) it is primarily up to the person being called out to choose how they respond. It’s a bad bad look to be confronted in this way and stand your ground or to keep digging and that more than the original misstep is what will determine how people view and respond to you.
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