Chaos Blog

truly few things instantly put me in a bad mood more than humidity

I love me a Whumpee who has responsibilities

enough h*ated r*valry stuff glides under my boat that i start to gather snippets of information about the fandom, and by far my favorite recurring bit is that they seem to be trying by any means possible to avoid admitting ilya is based on alex ovechkin bc 1) they think he's ugly 2) they think he's not good at hockey and 3) they don't like his politics

unfinished thoughts, im not done thinking about this, but there's a fun little bit of mental gymnastics people (nerds) in certain online (fandom) spaces do about athletes where they justify villainizing or dehumanizing them based on an assumption of universal moral failure. it was present in that sharks pfp saying it was good the habs lost because they're all cheating on their girlfriends (inspiring a dozen questions: they are? all of them? the habs but not the canes? how do we know this? etc.), and it's present in the justification given when you press on a heated rivalry fan who reeeeally wants to call nick suzuki shane hollander.

This is very intriguing to me. I do think there’s a real and valid discussion of how every single athlete in the nhl upholds a culture that encourages the dehumanization and hatred of women that leads to violence against them (both physically, domestic violence is a very prevalent issue among players, and sexual violence à la hart and Kane). And that every single hockey player absolutely will cover for their teammates and protect them both on and off the ice no matter how heinous what they’ve done is because those are their brothers in arms and civilians could never understand (They actually refer to non hockey players as civilians which does make me queasy but that’s a separate issue). I mean there’s a reason players like Hart and Kane and Nichushkin are still playing. And there’s not exactly any players speaking up to protest their place in the nhl. Conformity and keeping your head down when you see stuff like that happening is being complicit in the harm towards women. And they’re all guilty of it.

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