In hockey, fighting exists to enact justice when the refs fail to achieve that. Usually it’s for missed calls or intentional harm. It’s my personal opinion that calling an underage girl a whore is verbally abusive which translates to intentional harm enough to justify beating the brakes off that little fucker. The refs should’ve thrown the insulter out for that shit, and if that were my daughter, I’d be after that ref’s job for doing nothing AND punishing the kid who had the courage that the ref didn’t. Yeah, the kid sucks, but his behavior is the product of bad parenting and a lack of education and discipline; that ref should’ve fucking known better.
If you think calling someone a name during a competitive sport is intentional harm, then you probably shouldnt partake in any sports. Its also pretty clear that most of the reason you are upset is because the “victim” was a girl. If you replace the story with a boy, the reaction you have is entirely different, isnt it?
Yeah, I guess I feel like there is a difference between calling a girl a whore and calling a boy a whore, and it’s because the intention is different. Both are wrong because, again, these are children, but yeah I think it’s significantly more socially and psychologically damaging for a young girl to have that word thrown at them. I don’t know for sure, but I’m capable of attempting to check my male privilege to empathize with the experience, and maybe that’s because I have friends who have stories about being treated so creepily by boys and men and even weird ass women bringing up sexual shit with them and about them while they were children. The normalization of that is fucking bonkers, and it’s gross to try to defend it.
Well I just disagree with 3 altogether, but if you really believe its harder for women to deal with insults than men, I’m not sure what I can say to convince you otherwise.
We’re not talking about women and men. We’re talking about girls and boys. Women can handle insults well because nobody beat the shit out of people for insulting them back when these women were little girls. We accepted that as normal and just expected them to toughen up. I don’t accept that. Insults, especially when directed at children, are a bad thing, and I can’t believe that this is something that needs to be said.
In hockey, fighting exists to enact justice when the refs fail to achieve that. Usually it’s for missed calls or intentional harm. It’s my personal opinion that calling an underage girl a whore is verbally abusive which translates to intentional harm enough to justify beating the brakes off that little fucker. The refs should’ve thrown the insulter out for that shit, and if that were my daughter, I’d be after that ref’s job for doing nothing AND punishing the kid who had the courage that the ref didn’t. Yeah, the kid sucks, but his behavior is the product of bad parenting and a lack of education and discipline; that ref should’ve fucking known better.
If you think calling someone a name during a competitive sport is intentional harm, then you probably shouldnt partake in any sports. Its also pretty clear that most of the reason you are upset is because the “victim” was a girl. If you replace the story with a boy, the reaction you have is entirely different, isnt it?
Well I just disagree with 3 altogether, but if you really believe its harder for women to deal with insults than men, I’m not sure what I can say to convince you otherwise.
We’re not talking about women and men. We’re talking about girls and boys. Women can handle insults well because nobody beat the shit out of people for insulting them back when these women were little girls. We accepted that as normal and just expected them to toughen up. I don’t accept that. Insults, especially when directed at children, are a bad thing, and I can’t believe that this is something that needs to be said.