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When faced with criticism on sexism, double down on being excited about meeting a rapist.

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[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 55 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

“People are so negative about things,” he continued. “I think everyone in that locker room knows how much we support them, how proud we are of them and we know the same way we feel about them, they feel about us.”

I'm sure he believes that, but I doubt he's talked to a single member of the women's team to hear their opinions on the matter. I doubt he cares.

It just goes to show the huge gender disconnect in this country. Trump is a white man's president, and these white men can't understand why everyone else is so mad at them. They are seriously lacking insight.

And I'm saying this as a white man. Not all of us are on board with this, but I can't seem to explain to some of my fellow white men why they need to make some changes to how they view things. Again, they lack insight and I don't know how to get them to open their damn eyes. I've kinda just stopped trying, and I just don't talk to them about it anymore.

Edit: idk if it's right to say Trump is a white man's president, necessarily, because it's not all white men and it's not only white men, even if it is mostly white men. But, I do think it's right to say that Trump is the president of people who have a certain attitude about manhood or masculinity. He's the president for people who think they're just inherently superior to everyone else. He's the president for people who don't care about anyone else. He's the president for selfish, narcissistic people, and in this country a lot of white men are that way, unfortunately.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 62 points 18 hours ago

Men competing on a global stage, sorted by national identity, for the pride and satisfaction of elite economic interests => Normal

Women Existing => Politics

[–] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 29 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Idiot chugs beers with one of the most prominent fascists in the country and wonders why things are so political.

[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 10 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

We're just going to see the head of state do a propaganda speech. Why is everyone being so political about it?

[–] SkabySkalywag@lemmy.world 47 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Given that Kash Patel was in the locker room singing, I've a bad feeling that there's a lot more pro Trump sentiments with this team.

https://apnews.com/article/olympics-hockey-fbi-director-kash-patel-8eb9ff9fcdf6ecd605643860fd1c18bf

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Are you implying male athletes lack moral fiber? That many of them have coasted through life, playing games for a living, getting unmeritorious free college educations, and becoming celebrities at a young age?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 11 points 15 hours ago

Around the junior leagues in Canada, they tend to be a little rapey.

[–] Pixel_Jock_17@piefed.ca 3 points 16 hours ago

Change celebrities to wealthy, because hockey players have a great time of being unnoticed to the greater population if you know what I mean.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago

Reactionaries? On a hockey team? Perish the thought.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 15 hours ago

They're hockey players, so that tells you a lot right there.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 37 points 18 hours ago

Why would the women's hockey team want to visit a rapist? Republican or Democrat, a rapist is a rapist. Getting chummy with a rapist like Donald J. Trump, friend of now deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, is just a really bad look.

[–] agingelderly@lemmy.world 50 points 19 hours ago

He sounds like the kind of dumb ass hick who would want to meet the pedo

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 21 points 17 hours ago

I was never much of a sports guy to begin with but lately im more negative about sports than neutral.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 30 points 19 hours ago

Ugh I hate nationalism so much.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 22 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

“Everything is so political,” he told the Daily Mail at a victory party in Miami.

I WONDER who might be making it that way??? Any ideas? Anyone??

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

That’s what happens when the rejection of basic moral and empirical facts becomes a political platform. Everything becomes political.

Like this: “my political platform is that 1+1=3” Now every scientific claim is political.

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 18 points 18 hours ago

WHY is it So Political to WANT to Party with Child Rapists nowadays? DANG LIBRULS!

-Jack Hughes!

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 22 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)
[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 11 points 18 hours ago

Oh, so that's why the WNBA got so much shit...

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 17 hours ago

“If you could see what we see from the inside, and the men and women sharing, you know, dorm rooms and halls and flex floors and the camaraderie and the synergy and the way the women cheered on the men and the way the men cheered on the women — that’s what it’s all about," she said. "And the other things they cannot control. They care about humanity. They care about unity and they care about the country.”

Bullshit.

[–] Fourth@mander.xyz 15 points 19 hours ago
[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Well at least we know who all the deplorables who support felons, rapists, and pedophiles are in our nation.

Your enemy is easier to deal with when you know who they are.

[–] hitstun@feddit.online 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Anyone who comes within arm's reach of that man has the moral imperative to punch him. I'd like to see him get punched by some gold medal Olympic hockey players. I hope that's why the men's team accepted the invitation.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

Nah, read the response by their representative and his mother. They're full on supporters of MAGA and red pills apparently.