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a sequence of Events. not crosby. not mcdavid. just one nhl player with no “reputation” and everything to lose.

#hockey #nhl #travis dermott #arizona coyotes #pride #lgbt #lgbtqia #lgbtq #gay #queer

#!!!!!!!!#this is so important #travis dermott #nhl #hockey

The NHL: we’re banning pride tape

Travis Dermott: no you’re not

The NHL: no we’re not

#JOKE LEAGUE LMAOOOOOOOO #travis dermott #mine

The way some of ya'll talk about the money that pro athletes make betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of how any of this works. Absolutely they're not living in poverty or paycheck to paycheck. But they are still people who exchange labour for capital, the vast majority of them are closer to being just like us than they are to being like the billionaires who pay them.

They spend their entire lives being very good at one thing at the sacrifice of education or a backup plan. They exchange their health and physical well-being for that paycheck. If their careers ended tomorrow, most of them would NOT "be fine". The ones on short term (comparatively to their peers) lower paying contracts do NOT have financial or job security.

This is a labour rights issue!! If you watch sports and are entertained by the labour these people provide it's actually insane to dismiss people who point out the relative lack of security that some of these people have! You're not being smart and you're not being progressive

#travis dermott #sports #because that's what the post that made me made enough to bust out the sports degree was about #but this is about everyone from women to men to racecar drivers to hockey players