#24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

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Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

There's a particular macho culture around playing through pain that's specific to hockey, but in pretty much every sport where you're liable to get injured, you have people playing through injury on a regular basis. Was going to comment about figure skating, too, but I don't think it's by any means unique to those sports, even if in some sports it gets taken to extremes more than others (and I think there are often sport-related reasons that account quite well for differences in how injury is handled -- for example, differences between team and individual sports, season schedule, etc.).

Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

The play through the pain thing is one of my least favorite aspects of hockey culture, but now I want fic where Weijun Sui wins the heart of an NHL player by telling him how she won silver at Worlds despite needing surgery on both ankles.

Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Omg, 100% would read <3

But yeah, I laugh and roll my eyes a little when some fans go on about how hockey is the best sport because players are so ~manly and gritty because they play through injuries, even ones requiring surgery!! Meanwhile, figure skaters do the same on the regular, but at a younger age doing things that put way more stress on their bodies. And speaking of injury comeback stories, Tatiana Totmiana winning Olympic gold after being dropped on her head will always be a favorite.

Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

sa

Not to say that I approve of skating through serious injuries for figure skaters, either! It's terrible to play through injury, but understandable why people do it -- but valorizing that as a fan is silly :/

Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

+1 on how that shouldn't be valorized but how pairs girls are ~manlier and grittier than any dude. Elena Berezhnaya had a skate penetrate her skull and came back less than a year later! Beat that, hockey players.