prev -- I appreciate your tags; these are also things I was thinking about when I saw canes fans talking about what to chant at Hart, and I do agree on the signs/jokes about "how does it feel" etc. being gross.
on the chant, specifically, though: the conclusion I ultimately came to was that it's already been trivialized and normalized. we've now had months of national broadcasts praising Hart relentlessly, framing him as a redemption arc; and months of vegas silencing and preventing any press from even asking questions.
obviously, chants are not where this should stop, but hockey media has done eveyrthing it can to prevent the conversation. and it was very moving to me now, during the most watched games of the year -- the literal finals -- every person watching that broadcast (and all those coward announcers) could clearly hear the crowd chanting the most well known anti-rape slogan there is.
So even if not everyone is chanting with proper motives, it still forces it out of the darkness, and it is also a sign to those few in hockey media who have challenged the narrative that despite how few of them there are, there is a much larger group in the fanbase that still gives a shit and appreciates their continued stand.