That was one of the things I was talking about, yes. But a bunch of other top, top US women also liked a bunch of similar tweets, too (which Twitter thought I "might like" because they did, ugh).
And ugh, I'm not saying people need to drop their favs over this or anything (like, I'm still following them, for now), but seeing people act like women's hockey is so Ideologically Pure (why should it be?) is frustrating. Someone I know tweeted about JT Brown's tweet, like "I'm excited but this is how awfully low my bar is for hockey dudes, I'm excited about a man being pro social justice, hockey dudes are terrible!!" and, like.... which of your white lady favs is doing better? The women have been terrible on this. Way to diminish the bravery of a player taking a stand. Not to make a bigger deal of a tweet than it is, but a black man publicly clapping back against a white coach's public remarks, implicitly calling Tortorella racist, when he knows very few players and coaches would agree with him, is not nothing and not proof of your "low bar," your bar is low because you and friends squee over Sidney Crosby saying "girls" instead of "guys" when that guy has never done a thing that would get him blowback, for a cause more important than himself.
(Ugh, sorry this became a rant. I thought I'd gotten it out with my vent, but I woke up to this shit on my TL and ugh...)
Re: Fandom Venting
That was one of the things I was talking about, yes. But a bunch of other top, top US women also liked a bunch of similar tweets, too (which Twitter thought I "might like" because they did, ugh).
And ugh, I'm not saying people need to drop their favs over this or anything (like, I'm still following them, for now), but seeing people act like women's hockey is so Ideologically Pure (why should it be?) is frustrating. Someone I know tweeted about JT Brown's tweet, like "I'm excited but this is how awfully low my bar is for hockey dudes, I'm excited about a man being pro social justice, hockey dudes are terrible!!" and, like.... which of your white lady favs is doing better? The women have been terrible on this. Way to diminish the bravery of a player taking a stand. Not to make a bigger deal of a tweet than it is, but a black man publicly clapping back against a white coach's public remarks, implicitly calling Tortorella racist, when he knows very few players and coaches would agree with him, is not nothing and not proof of your "low bar," your bar is low because you and friends squee over Sidney Crosby saying "girls" instead of "guys" when that guy has never done a thing that would get him blowback, for a cause more important than himself.
(Ugh, sorry this became a rant. I thought I'd gotten it out with my vent, but I woke up to this shit on my TL and ugh...)