defending against the dark arts

[meiface]

Friday afternoons are the worst at work. Plus, it's so disgustingly hot that all the thoughts I had in my brain about the NHL Awards and NHL draft day and various trades and JORDAN STAAL and Euro 2012 have melted out of my brain.

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[kumquatweekend]

Blah blah blah deeper thoughts on being an female Asian hockey fan, plus the larger context of society and the women's rights movement. Blah blah blah fucking men and the people who forever victim-blame women in favor of them.

>:/

The Puck Daddy comment threads are so frustrating in that sense. I should know better, but I can't stay away.

[meiface]

I made the mistake of scrolling down, reading five comments, and then I wanted to set the world on fire, so I had to vent at a friend, go do something else, and calm down.

Just. Incoherent frustration sometimes. Or maybe all the time!

[kumquatweekend]

I KNOW. FUCKING FUCK. How are these people even our fellow human beings? Why the vitrol?

Worst were the PKane May 5 shenanigans. *shudders* I logged in just so I could give thumbs-downs and report the worst offenders to the moderators. (One being: "It's impossible to rape a sororistitute.")

[meiface]

Oh my god, I still retain so much bitterness and cynicism from that incident. I posted about how it brought home the divide between RPS and reality, but god, all the other associated issues I word vomited at celerywench in person.

OH GOD. Like. Fuck me, I was in a sorority and it didn't come close to the sisterhood~ it's touted to be, but nor was it anywhere close to the way mainstream media (AND PORN - maybe you should rethink your view on something when it is the same demeaning view that is presented IN PORN) presents it. It's definitely one of my rage buttons.

[altri_uccelli]

omg, away from my computer most of the day so I just found out about JStaal!! I'm totally going to try to see the Canes when they play the Flyers in December.

[meiface]

YES YES. I will also be aiming to go to that game and will probably wail no matter who wins. So exciting.

[altri_uccelli]

I need a Skinner icon (not that it's hard finding pics of him looking dimply and adorable).

What's your take on preseason games? sometimesalways told me that the big players often don't play in them, that they're more used for trying rookies out. I wanted so much to see the Hawks at Flyers on 9/25. Have you ever been?

[meiface]

Sounds about right - preseason games don't count and so are good places to try out rookies and new lines, but celerywench and I already have plans to see that Hawks-Flyers game. Time will be taken off work for it! And it'll probably be our first live hockey game, actually! We both only got into it the last few months but we, uh, fell really hard and deep.

I forget if you have any interest in the Caps but they're playing a preseason game with the Columbus Blue Jackets outdoors in Baltimore on 9/26!

..I still need Flyers icons. So many Flyers icons.

[meiface]

It's only because our taste has been forever compromised!

I had things to say about how miserable the world is to women but then I saw this and now I'm beaming instead. Danny/Claaaaaaaaaude.

[sweetcherrytree]

lmao I think you mean Rick Nash bb, Steve Nash may be Canadian but he's better known for basketball. That being said, I also love Steve Nash! HE IS GREAT AND DESERVES A CHAMPIONSHIP /o\

I found the NHL awards so painful oh my god, I missed it live so I watched the whole thing on cbc.ca thinking why am I doing this to myself ugh someone please laugh, matthew perry you're so awkward, this is so awkward whyyyyy

[meiface]

oh lord, how did i write Steve Nash when I've been spending the past week reading about Rick Nash and how Bobby Ryan on the trade market affects him? My brain. @__@ This is what happens when you have too many sports in your brain??

haha the NHL awards were painful but at least it had some funny and endearing moments. Apparently the previous years' awards were worse, so... Can you imagine?