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According to users in a Facebook goalie group for which Sparks is an administrator, members of the forum were mocking a disabled person and Sparks came to that person?s defence by asking one of those in the forum where he lived and writing, ?I want to go to open hockey with you, drag you out to center ice and beat you into a [expletive] pulp until you can?t run that [expletive] little mouth of yours. God, you sound like a 13-year-old girl.?
When another member reprimanded Sparks for insulting women, he apologized and continued, ?Girls don?t even whine as much as this guy does.?
L K said:1) It was a closed group so this certainly wasn't a public discussion
2) If this is all that he said, that's certainly pretty mild to justify an indefinite suspension
It's certainly not PC appropriate language but that seems to be a bit over the top to be described as sexist language.
Bullfrog said:L K said:1) It was a closed group so this certainly wasn't a public discussion
2) If this is all that he said, that's certainly pretty mild to justify an indefinite suspension
It's certainly not PC appropriate language but that seems to be a bit over the top to be described as sexist language.
Agreed on your two points. But I disagree on the your last statement. It's these "mild" statements that cumulatively lead to a sexist society.
Highlander said:You would thing the Leaf protocols would be heavily established, so Sparks goes overboard (in regards to protocol) and gets suspended. Now if he was really belittiling a person who was being cruel to disabled persons, then I would say the suspension should just be a slap on the wrist.
Bullfrog said:Agreed on your two points. But I disagree on the your last statement. It's these "mild" statements that cumulatively lead to a sexist society.
Nik the Trik said:Highlander said:You would thing the Leaf protocols would be heavily established, so Sparks goes overboard (in regards to protocol) and gets suspended. Now if he was really belittiling a person who was being cruel to disabled persons, then I would say the suspension should just be a slap on the wrist.
I don't see why what the other person said/did matters here. No matter how noble the aim if Sparks had said something a little racist or homophobic in defense of a disabled person nobody would think that made it ok.
mr grieves said:Well, "when they go low, we go high" isn't good for anything but keeping HR happy and losing presidential elections. To belittle and silence a bully, you often have to get down on their level, as our better stand-up comedians have long understood.
McGarnagle said:Didn't Reilly effectively do the same thing last year? I don't recall a suspension.
Nik the Trik said:McGarnagle said:Didn't Reilly effectively do the same thing last year? I don't recall a suspension.
Have to figure someone getting in trouble for it before would compound things, not excuse them.
Bill_Berg said:So the little girl comment was worse than the beat you to a pulp comment?
Zee said:I think Sparks's comment would have been fine if he had just told the guy to stop acting like a 13 year old. Because the original poster was acting childish and immature with his comments. Leave the "girl" part out and it's fine.
Coco-puffs said:Zee said:I think Sparks's comment would have been fine if he had just told the guy to stop acting like a 13 year old. Because the original poster was acting childish and immature with his comments. Leave the "girl" part out and it's fine.
I don't think threatening to beat the person into a pulp is "fine".