Up, Up and Away

[free_spoons]

Potty training, as all parents know, can be a tall task.Convincing a child to own the throne takes a lot of persuasion, and the prospect of wearing big boy/big girl underwear often does the trick

Comments

[chaya]

I am hugely supportive of the Cory who is not on the Canucks.

/hockey rivalry

More seriously, though, is anyone else impressed that we got through a whole article with no pronoun fail?

[teacup_werewolf]

Ok I am confused because I read parts where they called him "she" and kept bring up his birth name.

Maybe I am just really unimmpressed with the article and maybe I am misreading? But is there really no pronoun fail?

[keeperofthekeys]

Whenever they talk about Cory before he made the decision to transition, they refer to him as "she" or the "daughter" and by his birth name. They get it right otherwise, but I'd agree that the article (repetitively) noting that Cory "used to be" a girl, rather than always being a boy, is problematic.

Edit: I see you've said as much downthread. I didn't scroll before I commented, sorry about that.

[chaya]

I missed it on first read.

[mercystars]

how nice!

also how nice at all the positive comments @ the source

(i think there's something in my eye)

[zinnia_rose]

I'm very pleasantly surprised by the lack of pronoun fail in this article. Good for you, Canadian NHL.

[teacup_werewolf]

The keep calling him 'she' many times.

[vulturoso]

From what I can tell, they referred to him as "she" during the times he still identified that way. I'm just saying that the rest of the article seems to get the pronouns right.

[bnmc2005]

Yay for Cory.

OT; What a bizarre way to start a story... potty training, really?

[234_am]

this.

NGL, i thought it would be a story about some weird kid contraption to make them go on the toilet.

[darknessdivine]

At first I thought it was going to be an article about the supposed lack of potty training in the NHL and was so, so confused.

[234_am]

when my younger brother played hockey (goalie, actually), we were little and i painted his nails pink. he went to practice that night with painted fingernails. his coach made derogatory jokes about how 'he wasn't a goalie, he was a girlie', and it made him so upset that he quit playing net.

i love this story. the 'nucks are my home team and i'm happy to see this.

[tabaqui]

Wow, what a fuckhead.