(screenshot of picture on Twitter, to give proper credit)
I don't mind seeing Pronger looking silly, or trying to taunt him, that's for sure. It's that I thought this was unfunny sexist bullshit in the Post example, and I don't need to see Chicago papers resorting to it. (Also, looking like you're ripping off the Post is somewhere far below scraping the bottom of the barrel).
I'd say "surprisingly" if it was but it's not, it's depressingly predictable--I saw lots of female sports fans passing this around with amusement on Twitter today (lots of male ones too, of course). (And a few men and women critiquing it, but none from Chicago. Oh good, not only do I dislike this, I get to have a "no one here understands me!" moment, too.) Why so few women seem to mind the women/women athletes = inferior implication of so much trash talk in sports (and why so many men, many/most of whom presumably like the company of women, participate in it) is an eternal mystery to me, and the subject of multiple unwritten posts. I'll get to it eventually. Just wanted to post this while it's "news."
In other OH MY GOD IS IT A SLOW NEWS DAY IN HOCKEY "news," this screengrab from NHL.com in the past hour:
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It's asinine really. If you're going to mock him, mock him for the assbag that he is. I guess I should be thankful they didn't try to photoshop him in a bar in Boystown.
I just think it's yahoo journalism at it's worst. Granted, the upset over it in Philly is overblown (it's a joke, people) it's just some hackwork from folks who should be giving us some actual reporting and not this sort of obvious goonery. More evidence that the notion of a respectable sports desk at your local newspaper might be a thing of the past.
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