CanadianCorhen ( @CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca ) 24•1 year agoFunny how just hiding sexual assault, without taking steps to correct it, keeps biteing people in the ass
rare_polyhedron ( @rare_polyhedron@lemmy.ca ) 15•1 year agoUnless you’re the Chicago Blackhawks
IninewCrow ( @ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ) 2•1 year agoOh … Blackhawks … I thought I heard something else
AceofSpades ( @Aceofspades@lemmy.ca ) 14•1 year agoUnsealed 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.
Ricketts ( @Ricketts@lemmy.ca ) 2•1 year agoAnd publicly shamed
Steeve ( @Steeve@lemmy.ca ) 3•1 year agoAfter they’re found guilty
BringMeTheDiscoKing ( @Bleach7297@lemmy.ca ) 8•1 year agoNike knows you’re supposed to force kids into labour, not abuse them sexually.
TronnaRaps ( @TronnaRaps@lemmy.ca ) 7•1 year agoI hear alot of bad shit about hockey culture in general.
BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 10•1 year agoI 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.
Ricketts ( @Ricketts@lemmy.ca ) 2•1 year agoHockey in general needs to be reimagined, reinvented for todays world
Mongostein ( @Mongostein@lemmy.ca ) 4•1 year agoYeah, you’d 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 don’t exercise.
colonelpanik ( @colonelpanik@lemmy.ca ) 3•1 year agoI 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)
jadero ( @jadero@lemmy.ca ) 3•1 year agoWhether 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
the w ( @itmightbethew@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year agoAlready one of the best things from Canadaland, Commons just gets better and better