#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

To me there's a difference between believing that there are likely random NHL players who are likely closeted gay people and believing that a specific NHL player is definitely a closeted gay person. The first is just an assertion that there are likely closeted gay people in the NHL right now. This is not tinhatting, because you're just saying that, in this group of around 700 men, some of them are likely gay. The second is tinhatting, because you're insisting that this one, specific person is definitely gay.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

+1
Really believing something (anything) about the personal life of somebody you don't know personally, despite minimal evidence that it's true, or plenty of evidence which actually contradicts it, is tinhatting. "I think Seguin is gay" falls under that, "I think there are probably gay players in the NHL" does not. The second option is general enough that it's not making assumptions about the personal life of one player.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Taking it out of sports, for example, whenenver an anti-gay politician or ~religious~ right spokesperson starts really going at the rhetoric people suggest that they are protesting too much and probably secretly gay. Do you really consider that tinhatting?

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

NA

I don't think that's quite the same thing, as I think there's a certain amount of homophobia in that rhetoric. ("The gays are doing it to themselves, haha" or "lol, he's probably just so fucked up by our incredibly homophobic culture that he's trying to pass legislation that will destroy himself, isn't that hilarious?". Neither are good looks imo.)

But I agree with you that it's not believing someone might be gay that's tinhatting; it's warping or inventing the "evidence" no matter what reality is telling you.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt
I probably wouldn't call it that, just because I normally only use that term in a fandom context. But just suggesting as a one off thing is different than being invested in believing it, which is something else I associate with tinhatting. So that situation would probably be borderline tinhatting, I guess.