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Foz Meadows

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Author, fanwriter, trash bandit, queer geek feminist, dork. Jack of all pronouns, mxtress of none. Yells about hockey. Aussie in the US.

Irvine, CA
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    1. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 27 Feb 2020

      Foz Meadows Retweeted Colorado Avalanche

      Thread, as I'm salty: originally, when "allies" were invited to LGBTQ events, the term was meant as a form of self-protection for closeted individuals - a way for them to show support while still having public deniability about themselves. Ironic, as the NHL has no out players.https://twitter.com/Avalanche/status/1233176234290339840 …

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    2. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 27 Feb 2020

      I look at something like this, and even if I'm being charitable and assuming that everyone involved really does want to show support for the queer community and just didn't think about how this completely erases LGBTQ fans from their own damn event, it makes me think:

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    3. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 27 Feb 2020

      How shitty must it be, for closeted players in the league - and they do exist - to see something like this and be reminded all over again about why they're not out? Because the first thought of too many people in hockey spaces, even well-meaning ones, is that gays are Other?

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    4. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 27 Feb 2020

      What drives me nuts is that, because of how sports media works - and regular media, too, but sports media is the most salient here - and because of the entrenched culture of homophobia in so much of hockey in particular and sports in general, there's no perfect way to come out.

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    5. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 27 Feb 2020

      By which I mean: when the first NHL player finally *does* come out, unless it's decades in the future and the cultural landscape is wildly different, there is no way for them to exist where their game and identity won't be criticised through that lens.

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    6. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 27 Feb 2020

      If one of the top players in the league, someone at/or around the Crosby tier, was to come out, it would be seen as setting the bar for any other subsequently out players exactly that high: You Must Be This Good At Sports To Be Publicly Gay, Or Else You're A Bad Player/Rolemodel.

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      Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 27 Feb 2020

      If a midlevel player came out, commentators would speculate as to exactly how much being closeted had held them back, whether they could've been truly great "if only," and whether all of them mean it or not, some at least will purposefully phrase it as "if only he were straight."

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        2. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 27 Feb 2020

          And if a low-level player came out, well - that just proves that Gays Can't Do Hockey, right? As though the league historically hasn't been chock-full of benders whose lust for women has never been seen as the reason for their fourth-line careers.

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        3. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 27 Feb 2020

          If a player comes out in the offseason, they're a coward for doing it away from the media and making it an issue for teammates in the leadup to training camp. If they do it at any time during the season, they're selfish for being a distraction.

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        4. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 27 Feb 2020

          And let's not even get started on what happens if a player comes out as pan or bi rather than gay, especially if he's married or dating a woman or has done so in the past! Cue endless rants about why it was even necessary if he can just "choose" a woman, the full biphobic works.

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        5. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 27 Feb 2020

          And then, of course, there's The Russia Issue. Just about every team in the league has at least one Russian player, the vast majority of whom, regardless of whether they think differently in private, are never going to risk criticising Putin's anti-gay stance in public.

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        6. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 27 Feb 2020

          That's not just obliviousness or bigotry (although it certainly can be) - it's awareness that family back home might suffer for what they say here, a desire not to make waves in turn; hell, just fear of not getting to play for a national team because of it.

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        7. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 27 Feb 2020

          As a queer fan, it's exhausting to even contemplate from a distance. But for a player in that position, having to think through it all, knowing they're likely going to cop abuse on the ice, and from fans - and, let's be honest, from management and teammates, too? It's brutal.

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        8. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 27 Feb 2020

          What makes it even more frustrating from a fan perspective is knowing that hockey teams - internally, at a management/marketing level - are something of a broken base. Especially re: the @Avalanche, you've got a fun, progressive SM team, but also some bigoted shitbird owners.

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        9. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 27 Feb 2020

          Every time the @DallasStars post about YCP or pride on their Instagram, the majority of the comments are from homophobes complaining about "politics in sports," as though military nights are not also fundamentally political, because Being Gay Is Bad.

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        10. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 27 Feb 2020

          So any queer players - on top of everything already mentioned - have to deal with the fact that their own organisations are going to have wildly different reactions were they to come out, at all different levels, with different degrees of complication and consequence.

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        11. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 27 Feb 2020

          Returning to the original tweet, I want to be angry when queer fans are erased like this in favour of lauding "allies"(and I am), but who am I angry at? What part of the organisation is responsible for this one particular hurt, that I can single out as a proxy for hockey culture?

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        12. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 27 Feb 2020

          I don't have much else to say, except that, whoever eventually comes out first is gonna be entitled to a whole heap of "fuck you, I want this" about it. Because if they're going to be unfairly criticised no matter what, then why even try to be polite about it?

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        13. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 27 Feb 2020

          ANYWAY. We now return you to your regularly scheduled Thursday. Also the Blackhawks logo is racist and the Bruins suck.

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        14. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 27 Feb 2020

          ONE FINAL TWEET, because I missed it out before: there's also a double burden on any queer POC players because the league is so goddamn white. To be one of only a handful of black players AND the first out player? That's gonna involve even more extra bullshit, and it sucks.

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