I'm Too Old For This

This is all my sister's fault. I was a normal twenty-something until she was like "Hey, come watch this funny video of One Direction."

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They’re not really going to win are they?😭

The whole team has rancid vibes… why was Theodore just so rude in that interview? Not to mention Torts? Not to mention the weird media injunction they have for obvious and nonobvious reasons? And then there’s the obvious most evil Carter Hart.

I’m just sad that evil is so obviously winning, but at least I won’t have to watch Jarvis and Miller go to the White House, I guess.

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When I said I hope Mitch Marner wins, that was before he was on a team with Carter Hart

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The NHL: we saw you were thinking of leaving the hockey fandom

Me: yeah you guys suck

The NHL: can we seduce you with a VGK and Canes final

Me: no that actually sounds like the worst

The NHL: excellent

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Connor at the Met Gala is giving so much androgyny that it’s really spectacular. His outfit is fine but the concept is fantastic. It fits the theme in the idea that fashion changes perception, much like art. The choice to take off the jacket was peak.

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These playoffs are really going to put a nail in my nhl-watching coffin.

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The Pens are making me sad. Don’t do this, not against the Flyers.

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I hate when people bring up how much they miss or look back fondly on George Bush… stop, please, stop… it’s like saying well you’re going to get e.coli, you can eat chipotle and get e.coli or eat someone’s shit and get e.coli, and we’re all going well I guess I’d rather eat the chipotle, but WE’RE STILL GETTING E.COLI! It’s just now we’re eating shit and getting e.coli…

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They’re really trying to repair these men’s reputation huh? It would’ve been so much better without them. Connor, Mumford, Hudson, Hozier, Hilary, and Megan would’ve been 1000 times better

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PR of the NHL teams that PAY those USA hockey players when they return after THAT phone call

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I need to write out this tangent about the USA men's hockey team and THAT phone call.

Many years ago (pre-pandemic), I was a co-teacher to a class of junior (in high school) boys with a colleague who was a man who was also one of the football coaches. This was our third year being their teachers; it was an SEL class and we moved as a cohort. We KNEW these kids.

They were respectful, kind, appreciative, and fun to be around. One day one of the kids said something sexist. I cannot remember what he said; it wasn't directed at me, but I called him out for the sexism, and my co-teacher reminded him: "You can't say that around her. Remember, it's not just guys here."

And I went on one of my most beautiful tirades, grabbing the attention of the whole room: "No, you shouldn't say it at all. If you only don't say it because I'm around, you don't respect me, you just don't want consequences. That means your 'kindness,' your 'respect' is just a performance. You don't respect women if you would say it in locker rooms or with your boys. You put on a performance to trick me into thinking you're respectful and nice. I'm not sensitive, you know that, but if that's how you talk when I'm not around, I don't want to be around you, not because I feel unsafe because I don't, but because ultimately you don't respect me or other women."

The boys nodded, and we moved on.

After the boys left, my co-teacher looked at me and said, "I never thought of it like that."

There were only men in that locker room and on the phone. They didn't feel the need to perform allyship.

And to more tangent this as Heated Rivalry is more in the front of my mind. This is the same reason queer players haven't come out because players on pride nights have said nice, respectful things. Even Matthew Tkachuk has said, "A night like tonight, for me, is really about including everybody. In my opinion, it’s by far the greatest game in the world, and everyone’s invited in my locker room and our locker room as an organization." The thing about queer players though is that they are incognito in those locker rooms, and they hear what is said when they don't have to perform, and I can imagine how awful that gets.

I think about this quote from Dr Lilla Watson, a Gangulu woman, a lot in my own reflections on whether or not I'm being performative or not: "If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. If you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together."

A lot of men see themselves as "helping" women and queer people, and that's the crux.

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Quinn Hughes is never beating the oldest sister allegations. Nothing more oldest sister coded than scoring a goal in overtime in a knockout bracket.

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Jack Hughes, additionally, is the epitome of middle sister. What do you mean you got your teeth knocked out and scored the golden goal?

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Quinn Hughes is never beating the oldest sister allegations. Nothing more oldest sister coded than scoring a goal in overtime in a knockout bracket.

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the evil french ice dancers actually look like villains from a movie

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it's weird to me how puritanical people are being about the way someone like hudson williams acts, remember he's also an actor, in public and then will be like fuck ice. like yes babe, fuck ice but also fuck whatever policing it is you're doing over there. like what is happening. not only is there the potential that you know nothing about his relationship, but also there's the potential that it's just how he acts with people. i remember lying all over people when i was in my teens and twenties and it meant nothing. also, it is a sign of the larger push for conservatism, so yeah. enjoy feeding into right-wingedness, i guess.

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Who is letting Biz behave this way? It’s embarrassing

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I should’ve realized after reading the books, but part of the reason Ilya has such a bad rep is because after interacting with clocking, lgbtq+ icon Ilya Rozanov they always say he was being an asshole even when he wasn’t which perpetuates this idea that he’s a meanass and he doesn’t care because he likes those interactions because he wants to be seen