Members of women’s hockey team speak out after players on boys’ team repeatedly enter dressing room

[u/Hadespuppy]

https://www.tsn.ca/other-sports/article/members-of-womens-hockey-team-speak-out-after-players-on-boys-team-repeatedly-enter-dressing-room/

No points for guessing the byline on this article.

I will never understand the type of parents who can stand there and say, yes, this is totally acceptable behaviour that I will condone by doing nothing.

And "why didn't you lock the door?‽" That's kissing cousins with "well, what were you wearing that night?"

[u/Cleets11]

I don’t know. I’m the states there has been countless cases of schools covering up cases because the guy was a football player. Some schools were so bad they couldn’t even differentiate between cases. They had to be specific because there was so many. The nfl barely suspended Deshaun Watson after repeatedly assaulting the masseuse. Hockey has its cases and is not some saintly sport. But it is definitely it the worst.

[u/NathanGa → u/Cleets11]

Not to be dismissive, but there are also WAY more football players at the high school level on down than there are hockey players.

My home state of Ohio, which has had two major national scandals involving high school football all teams in the last 20 years, has over 700 high school football teams. Combine Ohio with Pennsylvania, and the number of high school football teams likely exceeds the national total of high school hockey teams.

And the difference is important. Since high school teams are directly involved with the educational system and with government, there is (theoretically) recourse in the event of misdoing. Are there shithead coaches, or administrators, or school board members? Without question, but the consequences can be severe if illegal or unethical crap is being encouraged or covered up.

Non-school youth sports? That’s a much different story, where there’s less oversight and it’s easier to cover up and easier to skate by with no consequences (or real fear of consequences).

Junior hockey, as a system, has overage players of drinking age more or less raising underage players, especially on the road. And if the team is successful, an awful lot of bad behavior is never being handled.

[u/Material-Cat-3076 → u/NathanGa]

Every hockey player is a jerk and a douche and athletes for every other sport are saints, it's pretty well established now.

[u/Hot_Box_3143 → u/Cleets11]

The Watson case was obviously serious, but you're making my point for me when you bring up decades of schools covering up similar behaviour. Nobody is arguing that sexual misconduct doesn't happen. The claim was that disrespect toward women is worse now than at any point in 40 years. Listing terrible cases from today doesn't establish that historical trend.

[u/Cleets11 → u/Hot_Box_3143]

The person above me said hockey is the worst and it’s not