#11 - Kopitar Prefers Amps That Go to Eleven

[dekedangle_rpf_mod]

This is the eleventh post of Deke Dangle RPF Anon, a community for all your ice hockey anon meme needs.

THE RULES

1. Mods retain the right to delete, freeze, and/or screen threads and comments.
2. Meme rules do not require warnings.
3. Respect flock. Do not repost or share information from private tumblrs, locked twitter accounts, flocked LJ posts, etc.
4. No linking fans to their real life identities.
5. No looks bashing or body shaming. This applies to players and people associated with those players and their clubs, as well as fellow fans.
6. No embedded music.
7. No embedded images.
8. No spamming the meme, whether through repeated comments or other means.

Meme rules do not require spoiler cuts. However, this layout does allow for them. Any of the following tags will create a spoiler cut when closed: <div cut>, <span cut>, <font cut>, <font color="white">

Threaded View
Flat View
Top-Level Comment View

Next post opens at 5,000 comments.

Comments

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

Is anyone else starting to get really grossed out by this line of inquiry?

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

just poking fun at that anon saying Eichel pings for them in this video.

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Vaguely but not to the point where it's bothering me yet.

Though it started with a post about tinhatting so I don't know what the expectation was for you.

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

It...wasn't a post about tinhatting? It was a post about McDavid commenting on his bros instagram with "this is hot"?

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

na

Parent up nonnie:

http://dekedangle-rpfanon.dreamwidth.org/3197.html?thread=13890941#cmt13890941

http://dekedangle-rpfanon.dreamwidth.org/3197.html?thread=13919357#cmt13919357

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I was considering the comment that more directly lead to the Eichel conversation to be this one: http://dekedangle-rpfanon.dreamwidth.org/3197.html?thread=13890941#cmt13890941 or maybe http://dekedangle-rpfanon.dreamwidth.org/3197.html?thread=13892733#cmt13892733

Rather than the post with the link to the picture. Might just be down to how I mentally categorize thread drift into sub-conversations, but the placement of the comment about the grossness was so far into that drift that I don't associate it with that "true" parent post anymore. It's probably more subjective than I suggested though.

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

I don't get it, is tinhatting specifically not allowed? I don't see it mentioned in the rules.

I don't tinhat. Not because I don't like it, but because I have nothing to contribute with. My "gaydar" is nonexistent.

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

uh, yeah.

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

NA
No, because so far it's been about as harmful as noting a lot of Asian people sure like to eat rice.

It could get gross real easily, sure, but cool your engines on the outragemobile until the harmful stereotypes actually start to drop.

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

like, say, head tilts and hand gestures...?

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

Go take a stretch break for that reaching, too.

Calm down, firecracker. There'll be some legit offensive thing to rail against soon enough.

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, it's almost like your perspective on this isn't the only one and people are allowed to feel however they want.

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

Not wank, genuine question, but what's up with using the word "gross" in this way? It's everywhere. English is not my native language and gross to me is just something that smells/taste bad. idk

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

I guess in this context it's being used like a milder form of "disgusting", but I guess that wouldn't make much sense either because disgusting is also usually a food/taste thing. I've honestly never thought about this before.

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

SA- I just looked it up and found "gravely deficient in civility or decency" which is close to how we're using it I suppose.

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

DA

It's kind of a casual phrase. I think it's mostly because "offensive" or "homophobic" can seem too clinical/formal. And some other words like disgusted, repulsed, etc can seem too extreme.

I guess there's also "problematic" that could be used, but that one seems kind of annoying (and I don't really know describe why but I just get that feeling).

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

I always feel "problematic" is a cop-out word because you're not actually addressing what is wrong. You can't have frank discussion when the word is in play.

"This is problematic" = a statement, sometimes an under- or overstatement. Make your claim. Where's the rhetoric skills?

(e.g., The use of the bindi as a fashion statement is insensitive and strips it of its cultural and religious significance.

Counterargument: the bindi has been trending away as a symbol of Hinduism for decades. Other South Asian groups wear it, including men, in a variety of styles.)

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

We use it as a less intense form of the word "repulsive" when we say it's grossing us out.

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

It only really started being used with regularity in fandom communities to refer to people during the great LJ social justice renaissance/plague (good: heightened social awareness. bad: using the trappings of heightened social awareness to disguise the same stupid fandom drama you always had.)

It caught on because it was one of the very few sanitized ways to insult people, as far as I can tell. Ugly was discriminatory, stupid was ableist, bitch was sexist, etc. etc. insults kept being scratched off the list and gross was one of the few safe ones left.

The usage in common parlance has gone way down since the lj community quietly picked themselves off the floor after the feeding frenzy of self-righteousness took its course, which I view as a good thing because my GOD I was fucking tired of that word by the third week in.

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

I use gross in this context all the time irl, I don't think it's a fandom term

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

The word gross as an insult is 200% not a fandom thing, and this instance isn't even using gross as an insult. It's a descriptor of the feeling something gives you. That is also an incredibly common usage in the English language. This entire comment reads like its from a different planet.

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

Huh. I'd noticed the uptick in usage in fandom spaces vs brickspace ones, but the search for -ism free negative words hadn't clicked for me as a contributing factor. Thanks for pointing that out.

Re: Player Lives and Random Gossip

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, brother. Gross meaning icky is not a fandom thing or an LJ thing or a social justice thing.