Funny how just hiding sexual assault, without taking steps to correct it, keeps biteing people in the ass
this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2023
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Unsealed court documents last year revealed London police said they had reasonable grounds to accuse five world junior players of sexual assault.
I would love to know who these five players are. They need to be held accountable.
And publicly shamed
After they're found guilty
Nike knows you're supposed to force kids into labour, not abuse them sexually.
I hear alot of bad shit about hockey culture in general.
I grew up around hockey guys, the majority of them were immature sexist, masoginistic assholes. Also the onboarding rituals were disturbing. One guy was proud to tell me that for new members all the other team members would cum on a piece of bread and force the new guy to eat it as initiation. Like WTF. So the sexual abuse allegations are zero surprise to me.
Hockey in general needs to be reimagined, reinvented for todays world
Yeah, youβd think the culture around a pro sport would be to inspire people to go play it themselves, but most of the fans are drunk fat guys that donβt exercise.
I played hockey right up to Junior level. Minor hockey has its own issues for sure but once you leave minor and go into junior where parents aren't paying fees it was toxic as hell. There was some great guys I played hockey with, made some great friendships there, but there were some absolutely awful human beings as well and they are tolerated way more than in general society. It comes from an old school culture among coaches right up to the owners of the teams. (excluding the trainers. they were almost always respectful people)
Whether Nike is doing the right thing because it's the right thing or to take the heat off their own behaviours, I'm still glad to hear it.
The way hockey is organized and "played" has long disgusted me. I think its systems and culture are toxic to individuals, communities, and society. And that's before I listened to Canadaland's "Commons" series:
http://canadalandshow.com/commons
RSS address: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/62f989eeb8b6580013a258d4
Already one of the best things from Canadaland, Commons just gets better and better