#11 - Kopitar Prefers Amps That Go to Eleven

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Re: 30-in-30: Toronto Maple Leafs - Steve Dangle

[(Anonymous)]

Receipts? I vaguely remember this as the reason I don't like him but, sadly, I confuse his meltdown with that of so many other hockey twitter dudes. :/

Re: 30-in-30: Toronto Maple Leafs - Steve Dangle

[(Anonymous)]

From what I remember some people were talking about him and tagged him, including this person, and he .@'d them. No one came out looking awesome.

Re: 30-in-30: Toronto Maple Leafs - Steve Dangle

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

the fucking .@ approach. gross.

Re: 30-in-30: Toronto Maple Leafs - Steve Dangle

[(Anonymous)]

Eh. I disagree except in practicality.

Re: 30-in-30: Toronto Maple Leafs - Steve Dangle

[(Anonymous)]

I've only ever seen it applied in David-Goliath situations and Goliath feels the need to call in the cavalry. I know it's useful in other capacities, but it feels ick to me when it's used to assemble a stone-throwing mass.

Re: 30-in-30: Toronto Maple Leafs - Steve Dangle

[(Anonymous)]

I don't really think that was the intention, just the inevitable outcome of someone with his following attempting to publically refute whatever she had been saying about him. I can't even remember what it was besides being ally-related.

Re: 30-in-30: Toronto Maple Leafs - Steve Dangle

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I don't really think intention plays into it when you know you've got a following and the other person doesn't. The only reason you do that is so EVERYONE that follows you can see it. If he was trying, genuinely, to just refute her, he wouldn't have done that.

Re: 30-in-30: Toronto Maple Leafs - Steve Dangle

[(Anonymous)]

Na

Yeah, I remember finding the person he was complaining about extremely obnoxious but also disliking the way he handled it.

Re: 30-in-30: Toronto Maple Leafs - Steve Dangle

[(Anonymous)]

The .@ isn't cool but iirc the person in question had also been picking @reply fights with his wife, so I can see where he'd overreact.

Re: 30-in-30: Toronto Maple Leafs - Steve Dangle

[(Anonymous)]

I have exactly zero receipts, but if I am remembering the correct thing the woman who didn't care for him used the strangest things as evidence against him. Like she took extreme offense to him complaining about a woman on the bus. But she would ignore things like the podcast where he made some weird comments about the idea of women in the NHL, which you would think would be a better thing to show his views?

With the caveat that I do not remember this instance as clearly as the anons above me do, I do think that Steve is one of the good ones and that he is far more inclined than other hockey Twitter/general fandom bros are to examine his "problematic" views.

Re: 30-in-30: Toronto Maple Leafs - Steve Dangle

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah his benevolent sexism about women in the NHL is a genuine criticism. The other stuff not so much.

Re: 30-in-30: Toronto Maple Leafs - Steve Dangle

[(Anonymous)]

There are a few very vocal and very frustrating members of Feminist Hockey Twitter that I find grating and unhelpful. This person falls into that category, as well the people criticising PD's A-Z summer series.

Re: 30-in-30: Toronto Maple Leafs - Steve Dangle

[(Anonymous)]

I still don't know who "this person" is. :(

Re: 30-in-30: Toronto Maple Leafs - Steve Dangle

[(Anonymous)]

There are a lot of really annoying ones, and I don't know she went after Steve Dangle specifically, but java-genie/@tonimacattack was the one who went after the PD A-Z series and got hugely called out for it.

Re: 30-in-30: Toronto Maple Leafs - Steve Dangle

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Shes someone that has often elicited a "stop being on my side!" reaction, but I managed to miss a PD related kerfuffle entirely, yay.

Re: 30-in-30: Toronto Maple Leafs - Steve Dangle

[(Anonymous)]

na

What is a PD A-Z series?

Re: 30-in-30: Toronto Maple Leafs - Steve Dangle

[(Anonymous)]

I know "outrage hobbyist" gets thrown around too much about women on hockey twitter, but tbh tonimacattack fits the bill of that damn well. Every time she shows up on my timeline as an RT (I don't follow her) it's about some half-baked thing she's trying to drum up attention for. What was her problem with the A-Z series?

Re: 30-in-30: Toronto Maple Leafs - Steve Dangle

[(Anonymous)]

NA
I am pretty sure it was not her with Steve Dangle, because I think they have interacted pleasantly as of pretty recently.

Re: 30-in-30: Toronto Maple Leafs - Steve Dangle

[(Anonymous)]

it was l a n g l u y

Re: 30-in-30: Toronto Maple Leafs - Steve Dangle

[(Anonymous)]

I've talked to him when he wasn't in-character, I guess I'd call it? about women's hockey and female fans. He's very genuine in wanting to support them but he's also a relatively privileged dude who only really started paying attention to this stuff a few years ago so I feel like some of the mistakes are inevitable rookie cluelessness. I'd rather try to correct him than, like, Marek or Wysh about anything.

Re: 30-in-30: Toronto Maple Leafs - Steve Dangle

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt I have never interacted with him in anyway, but that's been the impression that I always got from the stuff he was doing. He's getting better. Plus, I notice that he's always done less jokes that seem to have women or the idea that girls want to sleep hockey players or what not as the butt of the joke or the punchline. That's also a rarity in most of the hockey podcasts/etc I listen to. Maybe I just need to find better hockey podcasts? But I really do think he's on the better end, even if some of the constructive criticism he gets is totally fair.

Re: 30-in-30: Toronto Maple Leafs - Steve Dangle

[(Anonymous)]

DA

On the topic of other hockey podcasts:

I just recently discovered Two Bearded Ladies which is a Stars and general hockey podcast, which I've enjoyed so far. One of the women who does it is @classlicity on Twitter, who does some stats stuff that I've started following (haven't been following her long enough to know if I agree with her analytics approach and conclusions, but it seems promising so far).

Re: 30-in-30: Toronto Maple Leafs - Steve Dangle

[(Anonymous)]

There's actually a small stash of Stars-audio related stuff, which surprised me a little.

Re: 30-in-30: Toronto Maple Leafs - Steve Dangle

[(Anonymous)]

I doubt the podcast is, but are they themselves fannish? This might sound hypocritical, but I'm always looking for hockey blogs and podcasts by woman who aren't, cause I feel like even if they don't mention the RPF side, that vibe still trickles in somehow.

Re: 30-in-30: Toronto Maple Leafs - Steve Dangle

[(Anonymous)]

This is most of what I had saved: http://imgur.com/a/s9qKC

I was annoyed by everyone in the conversation, but it destroyed the easy amusement I used to get from his podcasts.