I've been thinking about this story as I listen to the latest @Steve_Dangle podcast discussion about Babcock (and am weirdly relived to see it broke after the ep recorded) and struggling to articulate a lot of feelings about abusive behaviour in sports culture.https://twitter.com/IanGraph/status/1198770855691591681 …
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Obviously I'm listening with the power of hindsight/context, but hearing
@AdamWylde talk about how Fraser shouldn't get to allude to other stories of Babcock's misdeeds because they're not his feels a little too close to how we treat people who speak on behalf abuse victims.1 reply 1 retweet 9 likesShow this thread -
This story about what Babs did to Marner is one lone incident, but it's chilling precisely because of how - and there's no other word for it - abusive it is. There is zero professional excuse for doing this, unless your professionalism includes wanting to be Stanley Milgram.
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The thing about abusers in professional settings is that they seldom abuse everyone. And if they're "good" at their jobs, then a lot of their terrible behaviour is excused as the price of results. This is true in every field, not just sports, but seems to apply especially to men.
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Perhaps this Marner incident is a one-off that was never repeated; but somehow, I find that highly unlikely - especially, as
@AdamWylde often points out, as Babcock has a psych degree. He made a choice to behave manipulatively, abusively, to the detriment of others.1 reply 1 retweet 11 likesShow this thread -
And what that makes me wonder is: how much of the rage being directed at Babs by Commadore and Fraser is not just because he was a bad boss, in the mundane sense, but an abusive one? And how, if so, does that change our perception of who is allowed to speak about him, and how?
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I keep thinking about that awful quotes-of-others piece about the history of Kadri with the Leafs, and how many horrifying red flags it contained for his being subject to abuse. (His dad told the coach to punch him in the head. Naz *cried* at the thought of his dad being called.)
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I keep thinking about how Patrick O'Sullivan's first NHL coach, knowing he'd been violently abused by his dad, proceeded to emotionally and verbally abuse him in turn - all this reported calmly, in an article that (IIRC) didn't bother to identify the coach's acts as abusive.
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JFC. I don't recall this Patrick O'Sullivan article--do any of you have a link? (If so, ty in advance!)
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This isn’t the full piece I remember reading, but it touches on the abuse - i think what I read was a longer bit about Marc Crawford being an asshole https://www.jewelsfromthecrown.com/platform/amp/2015/12/10/9817676/patrick-osullivan-discusses-his-time-with-the-kings …
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This is another piece I remember reading at the time, about Crawford being physically and verbally abusive to another player - IIRC this is the same type of thing he did to O'Sullivan https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/brent-sopel-marc-crawford-canucks-coach …
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