I loveeee heated rivalry as much as the next person (if not more) but I’m really irked over the narrative that HR fans are “changing hockey culture.” What about the queer fans and allies who have been actively trying to do that for yearrrrs?
It is so so so frustrating that the sport I love so much continually breaks my heart and enables players who have actively abused women to continue playing at such a high level… violence against women / gender-based violence is real and it matters and victims fucking matter.
There needs to be some sort of cultural shift, but the way hockey culture treats sexual violence is a fucking joke and it makes my heart ache to see it happen
Fuck the NHL. Victims deserve to be taken seriously and these men deserve consequences. I wish upon each and every one of these players a shitty career.
It is so frustrating as an SA victim to see how society treats sexual violence as if it is not worth consequence. I fucking hate seeing victims that are too scared to speak up because shit like this continually happens.