Excellent perspective Ken. Better than most psychologists would write. Our sons and daughters are special but they should be taught the values of all fellow humans. The meaning somehow gets lost with some of us.
The author is notbonoy an idiot, that likely haa never played any sports, but also highly ignorant.
Abuse of women is significantly prevalent throughtout the world... in Somalia women are subjected to vagina mutilation upon turning 14 !
In other parts of the world women wear veils and are treated as objects and second class citizens. What world does this author live in.
The issue is not the NHL, NFL or any other professional sport... the issue is men that feel empowered by stepping on, and inflicting their will upon others.
This has been on-going since the dawn of mankind. And while we claim to be "civilized", clearly, we are closer to Neanderthals than elevated life forms.
And now, to add even more fuel, women in North America.and parts of Europe are more aggressively promiscuous. I am NOT saying anyone deserves or even entices abuse, but men today are bombarded with sexual images never before encountered in mankind. And so, incidents such as these happen across all social levels.
Read, reflect, get educated... North America is not the world and tragic events such as these fortunately happen less often than in other areas.
Touched a nerve eh? Yes, genital mutilation, gender-based subjugation and objectivization (sometimes even self imposed) are happening every day throughout the world. But that doesn't change or diminish the destructive effect that the "you're super-special" entitlement poured on these athletes since they were young children has had on them and vulnerable people within their orbit. In terms of hockey, which is the only sport I closely follow you can see the lack of both intellectual and social development among many of the individuals. Entitlement and power are deployed based on a simple metric and problems arise when that (sometimes) ingrained perspective is taken out of the dressing room. It's not just present in junior hockey and not every individual succumbs to it but the structure of the Canadian junior system creates fertile ground for it to grow.
Excellent column, Ken. Many are throwing around terms like 'problematic hockey culture', which are too vague to have much meaning. Specifically, its the way these young man are treated as golden gods (from a very young age) that can lead to this kind of behaviour.
Do we know hockey Canada paid $3.55 MM? I understand that was the amount cited in the suit, but I thought the implication was that it settled at something less.
Excellent perspective Ken. Better than most psychologists would write. Our sons and daughters are special but they should be taught the values of all fellow humans. The meaning somehow gets lost with some of us.
The author is notbonoy an idiot, that likely haa never played any sports, but also highly ignorant.
Abuse of women is significantly prevalent throughtout the world... in Somalia women are subjected to vagina mutilation upon turning 14 !
In other parts of the world women wear veils and are treated as objects and second class citizens. What world does this author live in.
The issue is not the NHL, NFL or any other professional sport... the issue is men that feel empowered by stepping on, and inflicting their will upon others.
This has been on-going since the dawn of mankind. And while we claim to be "civilized", clearly, we are closer to Neanderthals than elevated life forms.
And now, to add even more fuel, women in North America.and parts of Europe are more aggressively promiscuous. I am NOT saying anyone deserves or even entices abuse, but men today are bombarded with sexual images never before encountered in mankind. And so, incidents such as these happen across all social levels.
Read, reflect, get educated... North America is not the world and tragic events such as these fortunately happen less often than in other areas.
Touched a nerve eh? Yes, genital mutilation, gender-based subjugation and objectivization (sometimes even self imposed) are happening every day throughout the world. But that doesn't change or diminish the destructive effect that the "you're super-special" entitlement poured on these athletes since they were young children has had on them and vulnerable people within their orbit. In terms of hockey, which is the only sport I closely follow you can see the lack of both intellectual and social development among many of the individuals. Entitlement and power are deployed based on a simple metric and problems arise when that (sometimes) ingrained perspective is taken out of the dressing room. It's not just present in junior hockey and not every individual succumbs to it but the structure of the Canadian junior system creates fertile ground for it to grow.
Excellent column, Ken. Many are throwing around terms like 'problematic hockey culture', which are too vague to have much meaning. Specifically, its the way these young man are treated as golden gods (from a very young age) that can lead to this kind of behaviour.
Do we know hockey Canada paid $3.55 MM? I understand that was the amount cited in the suit, but I thought the implication was that it settled at something less.