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“you block people over politics?” bitch I block people who say my fave hockey team that is inconsistent and not built for playoffs is inconsistent and not built for the playoffs
maybe we save any praise for the league for now. making them ineligible to play is kinda the bare minimum. it just seems huge bc the nhl fucking sucks.
i need people to get real and stop pretending this case ruined these players lives. they were mediocre hockey players at best. you don't want them back in the league because you liked them as players, you want them back because you hate women.
reminder that the NHL is the only major sports league without a sexual assault/domestic violence policy inquirer.com/sports/nhl-dom…
tw sexual assault, hockey canada and idk. pretty fucking terrifying to see how few men seem to care about consent and ongoing, enthusiastic consent. they don’t view women as people. they view them as object that exist to please them. and the court agrees.
tw sexual assault, hockey canada they’re not actually learning or caring about the info. they just want to know what they need to cover their ass. so they force these “consent” videos or get girls to sign something. no care about ensuring an actual consensual experience
tw sexual assault, hockey canada something i can’t shake is the idea that we’re working so hard to get consent training into these locker rooms and educate young men and boys on GBV and then there ppl just using them to understand how to skirt the law
this feels especially relevant today
thinking today, as i often am, of sarah polley’s heartbreaking essay unpacking why she didn’t come forward about the sexual assault she’d experienced at the hands of jian ghomeshi as a teenager digginganddeepening.com/texts/ESSAYS/S…
another organization to donate to if able: the SARE Centre is the most effective rape resistance program in the world (and it's based in canada) sarecentre.org
tw / sexual assault something very sinister in the judge claiming that howdens discrepancies in his statement were affected by alcohol, a concussion & the passage of time despite texts he made that contradict the testimony he gave. his story isnt even inconsistent its A LIE
one last thing: if you’re an nhl media person who has stayed glaringly silent during this entire trial and only now tweet to say the verdict and offer no insight or sympathy into the victims of sexual assault, shame on you.
you can hope all you want but that’s exactly what this has done
I only hope that this won’t discourage victims of sexual assault from coming forward, and that E.M. can find some form of peace on the other side of it all. Try to remember that she had nothing to gain by putting herself through months of anxious and insulting cross.
she didn't find them more than just not guilty because that is quite literally not how the law works. you know, kind of like how a sink isn't a urinal.
And when I say Justice Carroccia "exonerated" them, it means she found them more than just not guilty. She found as that "actual consent was given" here. This is as close to a finding of innocence as you'll get.