#is bogus. like this shouldn't even be a rule (whether they enforce it or not) that certain groups of people are allowed to be represented | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

nightshadehasblorbos · 8 months ago

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look i don't know why people are buying into the "anti-pride" conspiracy obviously they banned pride tape because it was too distracting for players and made it too hard for them to track the puck.

i can't believe the toronto maple leafs would go against a totally logical and reasonable decision made by gary bettman to ban special jerseys because they would confuse players. like how are they supposed to know who's on their team when the colors of their jerseys keep changing?

wait why are the leafs playing in st patty jerseys?

isn’t it distracting? what if the players don’t agree with what it stands for?

#heavy sarcasm #<prev #but also these should be included under “specialty jerseys” right?#or is it because the leafs wear them during games and have for a while which makes them like an official alternate jersey or something??#i would like this to be addressed but i'm pretty sure i'm not going to like the answer either way it goes #(either these jerseys don't count as specialty jerseys or they are and “specialty jerseys” will still be banned from ice)#also still pissed that “non- white cishet able-bodied neurotypical (etc) people are considered ”specialty“ rather than people #i still want players to fight it (even though they won't)#i mean the fact that goalie masks are not allowed to represent causes/non-typical “values” for themed nights while goalies just do it anywa #is bogus. like this shouldn't even be a rule (whether they enforce it or not) that certain groups of people are allowed to be represented #while others are not #they literally went you can represent your family and values if you're white/christian but not if you black or gay (etc.)#you can put a cross on your goalie mask and that's not “specialty” it's “normal” but no cancer pin because that's “specialty” and not norma #like i wish someone threatened to sue them just to shake things up #but then again luke prokop's coach/gm (i don't remember) literally asked players if they were comfortable with him being on the team #before they called him up which could be considered illegal if it went to court (even if they still called him up) because they took his #sexuality into consideration which is discrimination (like its illegal to even ask for someone's sexuality (and other personal information)#and they were like "we know he's gay does everyone know he's gay what do you think about him being gay we won't let a gay person work here #if it makes anyone uncomfortable and we will admit this publicly because no one would ever threaten legal action for this)#rant whoops #so obviously if they do all of these clearly discriminatory things they will drop the ball here too or won't address it at all #honestly they might say that it's a specialty jersey and not allowed (like with all the goalie masks for hockey fights cancer)#so i think teams should bring the jerseys on the ice for warmup they've already been doing it with masks beanies caps and tape #while the league explicitly said it was all still banned (except for tape)

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