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Re: What's Up With Your Team? - Playoffs, Here We Come

From: (Anonymous)
https://twitter.com/frank_seravalli/status/865991188683395073

#NHL has fined #Ducks' Ryan Getzlaf $10,000 - the maximum allowable under CBA - for using a homophobic slur in Game 4.

Re: What's Up With Your Team? - Playoffs, Here We Come

From: (Anonymous)
I can't find the link to a video right now but apparently it was "cocksucker" that he said toward a referee. Kind of surprised they did anything considering basically no one was talking about it.

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From: (Anonymous)
SA

And that's a happy surprise from me, in case it wasn't clear.

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From: (Anonymous)
Wouldn't be surprised if it was specifically because he directed it towards a ref...

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From: (Anonymous)
That was my thought, too.

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From: (Anonymous)
No suspension, I see...

Re: What's Up With Your Team? - Playoffs, Here We Come

From: (Anonymous)
Part of me is sort of... understanding is too strong a word, but I see how this is not as bad as what Shaw said and maybe not deserving of the same punishment. But on the other hand, who is the NHL to take it upon itself to judge how homophobic a homophobic slur is on its sliding scale of homophobia? The decision doesn't even make sense based on the stated rationale for Shaw's punishment: the fine for the slur itself, the suspension because it was directed as a referee. If it was really important for them to differentiate, by the logic of Shaw's suspension, it would have made more sense to suspend him but fine him less. But of course, it's a star player in the conference finals, so...

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From: (Anonymous)
NA

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Re: What's Up With Your Team? - Playoffs, Here We Come

From: (Anonymous)
https://twitter.com/thollenback15/status/827689078455988224

I remember when Getzlaf was the only one to use pride tape in game, and it wasn't even the ducks pride night.

idk what to think of all this..

Re: What's Up With Your Team? - Playoffs, Here We Come

From: (Anonymous)
I think the juxtaposition of those two facts just illustrate that homophobic slurs are endemic to the NHL, and that even players who might care about homophobia as a general concept haven't thought through how it manifests in speech.

Re: What's Up With Your Team? - Playoffs, Here We Come

From: (Anonymous)
+1 Yeah, this. And I wouldn't be surprised if "cocksucker" didn't necessarily ping for him as a slur the way the f-slur probably would. It's pretty similar to the Colbert/Trump thing. Not ok, and I hope he learns a lesson, but I doubt he's consciously homophobic.

Re: What's Up With Your Team? - Playoffs, Here We Come

From: (Anonymous)
I mean, homophobia is complex, like most biases. He may consider it a genuine shame that there's no out players while still thinking that a dude putting another dude's dick in his mouth is in some way demeaning. Homophobic slurs and even jokes that rely on implicit homophobia are everywhere in sports; it wouldn't surprise me if he didn't consider the two attitudes contradictory at all, or that calling someone a cocksucker was actually homophobic.

Re: What's Up With Your Team? - Playoffs, Here We Come

From: (Anonymous)
yeah, or he may not even think about the actual meaning of the word, like no one calling someone a motherfucker actively thinks "this person fucks his mom". it's not nearly on the same level for me as what shaw said.

anyway, not excusing it, it's obviously a word that should disappear from people's vocabulary, but i think the people calling him a definite homophobe are being a bit much.

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Re: What's Up With Your Team? - Playoffs, Here We Come

From: (Anonymous)
It's comparatively inconsequential, but the amount of warcry, accusatory posts I've seen compared to the ones defending Getzlaf (approx. 100 to 0) is starting to grate. Your point has been made, no ground is being made in the closed system that is tumblr hockey fandom.

Re: What's Up With Your Team? - Playoffs, Here We Come

From: (Anonymous)
I had no strong Getzlaf feelings prior to this one way or the other, so I am definitely not a stan, but I think what some people miss is that he's not one of the handful of bad eggs in the NHL. He just happened to get called out for something that I think we can be quite confident many, many players say.

I feel like some of the cries to burn him (or Shaw, or whoever) at the stake comes from a kind of defensiveness, like if I get pissed enough about Getzlaf I can pretend that the players on my team aren't saying the same kinds of things. It's not just one guy or a handful of guys. It's the whole culture.

Re: What's Up With Your Team? - Playoffs, Here We Come

From: (Anonymous)
Apparently there was someone on tumblr saying that cocksucker "isn't even homophobic" or something? Idk, I (blessedly) never see any of it firsthand, I just see the sarcastic meme posts about the stupidest shit thirdhand.

Re: What's Up With Your Team? - Playoffs, Here We Come

From: (Anonymous)
Getzlaf's apology, a paraphrase: "I'm very disappointed TSN called me homophobic."

https://twitter.com/alex_prewitt/status/866136501373083648

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From: (Anonymous)
When Andrew Shaw comes off looking better than you, you got problems, son.

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From: (Anonymous)
Also "fortunately no one heard me."

Which is a bit confusing.

Re: What's Up With Your Team? - Playoffs, Here We Come

From: (Anonymous)
Ugh, Getzlaf is one of my favorite players, and honestly seeing this shitty response (I can't even call it an apology) is even worse than the original comment. Really, dude, you're disappointed?

I hope I didn't offend anybody outside the circle that we trust.

I don't even understand what that means. What exactly is the circle that you trust, people you can say homophobic shit to, but it's ok, because they know you're not ~actually a homophobe?

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Re: What's Up With Your Team? - Playoffs, Here We Come

From: (Anonymous)
Wow. He doesn't even mention homophobia or apologise to the lgbt community once. What a douchebag.

Re: What's Up With Your Team? - Playoffs, Here We Come

From: (Anonymous)
I don't see why he didn't stop after the first two sentences.

Re: What's Up With Your Team? - Playoffs, Here We Come

From: (Anonymous)
http://www.outsports.com/2017/5/21/15672490/ryan-getzlaf-anaheim-ducks-homophobic-slur-go-fund-me

Apparently, Getzlaf's non-apology wasn't enough...

Re: What's Up With Your Team? - Playoffs, Here We Come

From: (Anonymous)
I've typed and deleted like 6 responses to this because I get halfway through and then still can not believe there are actual adult human beings for whom that fundraiser is a logical response.

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From: (Anonymous)
Ughhhhh