the idea that women's sports are a gay paradise bereft of tension is problematic not just because it obscures other tensions (race, class, gender, labor, etc) but because it isn't true. wrt women's hockey specifically, all you need is a cursory knowledge of the player base to understand that a large chunk of it is composed of heterosexual conservative christian women.

Level 1: Asylums are scary because there's crazy people there.

“You have to implicate the audience. They’ve got to squirm, not just over what happens, but because they did nothing about it. They had all the knowledge – this guy was not to be trusted – and they just sat there. People have jumped onstage to stop Iago, wrestled him to the ground. One actor in the 19th century was killed in the part, shot by an audience member. I’m glad that didn’t happen. Maybe I just wasn’t good enough.”

you have to be kinder to people with memory issues.

I don't even have the energy to screenshot and respond to your tags- what the actual fuck is wrong with you? "the cops are scared and rightfully so" "mental health calls are the scariest for cops" OH so this isn't about the safety of psychotic & manic people this is about piggy feelings?

cops r Some Guy with a Gun

This is legitimately useful reframing. A while ago I started replacing the word "cop" in my vocabulary with "a man with a gun." It really puts things into perspective.

One of the issues my wife and I run into is that our tolerance for when you need to call the man with the gun is much higher than the mental health support services in our city’s tolerance for the same where multiple times we’ve tried to diffuse situations by calling mental health support only to be told to call the cops and then seen them coming out on a call for a dude sleeping on a bench not bothering anybody