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