gwyneth philips is her own huge bug.

if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"

"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

FUCK YOU MIKE HIRSHFIELD

kind of if using this as a jumping off post for a more general thought i think the pwhl kind of exists in this weird space of like, it is professional sports and its dynamics are different from normal people jobs, but also they are still making normal people jobs money and theres going to be factors players will consider here that they dont consider in the nhl. Not that nhl players dont have personal factors (they do and we hear it often) but most of these players do not have partners who can easily pick up and move with them like nhl players do (this is a whole dynamic and a half that i wont get in to in regards to nhl players) and their partner probably works, they dont have the money to relocate family closer to where they play, a lot of the players (even tho many are from upper middle class to upper class families) are much more enmeshed in their community and arent sending their kids to private school and cant just buy any house they want in a nice neighborhood to take care of stuff so they need to think more carefully about where theyre living and how it suits their lifestyle. and of course on this blog ive discussed how things like visas and citizenship can impact it to. like idk it was a big deal in the nhl when jacob trouba was making decisions on his contract based on where his wifes career would take her and seen as this crazy thing but thats how most pwhl players who are in serious relationships will have to roll for numerous reasons, one of the biggest being they dont make enough to be single income households

fans complaining about player loyalty is killing me. imagine you switched jobs because you didn't want a doordash driver salary anymore and people on the street started calling you a traitor

Turns out you can have shit in Detroit

I have to wonder if for a player like Alina if you know you have a good chance of getting picked in a draft that could be triggered, you’d rather sign in a preferred location then risk going out west if you don’t want to