﹝ miles ﹞

aanya's post really nails part of why the h/ated r/valry mania has been so frustrating. people who don't care about hockey coming into hockey spaces and insisting that they're representative of the fanbase! it has nothing to do with fandoms or with rpf or whether or not the show is good! it's girl math, it's bimbo movements, it's i'm just a girl, it's divine feminine, it's tradwife, it's giving up! like, no, you don't have to care about hockey to like the show. you don't have to like the show if you care about hockey. but it's so endlessly frustrating to see people assuming that all women and gay people interested in the sport, regardless of how long they've been here, are in that first group, because hashtag the girls and gay only care about hot guys and kissing. it's frustrating to see members of that first group responding to that by agreeing with the basic premise. stand up for each other. stand up for yourselves. girls only like football because of taylor swift. girls only like reading because of twilight and fifty shades. girls only like music because of boybands. girls only like hockey because of cute boys kissing. girls are stupid and can't do math and only like pink. you get that these are misogynist stereotypes, right? you get that, even if you do like taylor swift and twilight and boybands and boys kissing and pink? you understand that agreeing with and confirming those stereotypes out loud and directed at the people making them isn't a sneaky little 'win.' it's an insult. people are going to be insulted. i don't care if you like rpf more than hockey. that's fine! i'm not good at math! some things are bigger than your personal circumstances!

"Quinn Hughes is my favorite hockey team 🧸" you are the one person i despise the most on this earth