No one did anything to stop the chants
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has more details about the abuse of the female goalie.
Armstrong principal Kirk Lorigan said the school is “appalled and embarrassed” at the actions of the student section and chants that the students used during Thursday’s game at Belmont Sports Complex in Kittanning. One of the chants was sexually explicit, and Mars coach Steve Meyers said his goalie was in tears after the second period. Mars has played five games this season and the female goalie has been the starter for all five games.
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Lorigan did not attend the game but said he was “disgusted” that no one — from Armstrong parents to two security personnel — did anything to stop the chants.
What are the chants saying? What’s the point of them? Besides trying to distract the target?
They’re saying all you are is a thing for our sexual jollies. You’re not a person, you’re not a high school student, you’re not a girls with plans for her future, you’re a mouth and a cunt. You’re not a goalie, you’re not an athlete, you’re not a competitor, you’re not one of us, you’re just a couple of holes.
The joys of being a “cis” female yeah?
Always remember, you are just front holes, walking anatomy rather than a person.
Sincerely, douche-bros and woke-bros united.
I wish articles like this wouldn’t be so squeamish and would just report what was said.
I’m not a hockey fan, but my wife went to a big hockey college and attended many games, and they had a whole series of bawdy chants to direct at other teams and at referees. I assume this chant goes beyond that, but it would be nice to get more than “a horrible thing was said” reporting.
I guess I should have scrolled down first.
Yeah, those chants were inappropriate (and unimaginative).
Ugh. The article I found said they haven’t decided how long the students’ attendance privileges will be revoked. My personal feeling is that they should be banned at least until the victim graduates. She should never have to worry about these thugs being in the same arena as she is.
My spidey sense tells me that when the punishments are meted out, the locals will say the boys are the true victims in all this. Cause, you know, boys will be boys.
Wouldn’t want to spoil promising careers for young boys just because of a few chants, right?
I don’t follow sports much (though I like to know if Paris St Germain has lost a game, almost better than Olympique de Marseille winning a game), so my ideas of how things work in professional sports may be simple minded or ignorant. However, my impression is that if something like this happened in a professional football game and it was clear that the manager of the offending side had done nothing to prevent it or stop it, the team would be banned from participating in matches for several games, or even until the end of the season. When I listened to the video I wasn’t able to decipher the chants, but I’ll take your word for it that they were not nice.
OK, you need to punish the boys, but that’s not going to be enough. You need to punish the people in charge.
In the late nineties Ségolène Royale, then Minister of Education, but later well known abroad as an unsuccessful candidate for the Presidency, showed that it’s perfectly possible to put a stop to something that the responsible authorities claim can’t be stopped. At that time bizoutage (what you call hazing in the USA, I think, and ragging in England) was a serious problem in the preparative classes for entry to Grandes Écoles. The principals of the schools involved said they didn’t like it either but what could they do. She said, you can stop it, and if you don’t you’ll be dismissed and replaced with people more competent. They suddenly discovered that yes, they could stop it if they tried. The problem disappeared overnight. All this happened the year before my daughter went into such a class, and observed no bizoutage at all in a school that had been known for it before.
Athel, I was a referee in a youth league about 20 years ago. I wasn’t very good at it, so they were desperate. One of the things that we did before every game was to have one of the players volunteer to read a good sports pledge, and it was directed at the crowd. We had the authority to remove abusive fans. Never had to use it. Just reading the pledge had an effect.
Athel, I have had the similar experience, with fellow academics claiming there was no way to stop students from using their phones in class or using unacceptable sources. I was flabbergasted. My classes have few to no phones present, and then only when they need to look something up. I have had a few students test the boundaries of my rules by putting the phone in their lap and looking down all through class. They stopped once they realized they were losing too many participation points.
All you have to do is figure out what matters to them. And most students will follow a firmly stated rule if you are clear about it (other than the rule about ‘no late work’ – they will beg and whine and cajole and cry when they miss a deadline, knowing for sure you will give in, even when you have no history of doing that, because their forgetfulness is just so, so different than all those other students).
In too many schools, the idea is that the students must be happy and self-confident. They must have self-esteem. And this doesn’t come from doing well in a tough class, apparently, or being well behaved, or not acting like a dipshit. This comes from being “in charge of their own education”, even when they have no earthly clue about what the hell their education needs to be.
If I were the Armstrong coach, I’d have taken my team off the ice and forfeited the match.
I’m assuming this is about the same incident: The entire student body of a Pennsylvania junior-senior high school has been barred from attending classmates’ hockey games after some students chanted sexually explicit vulgarities at a visiting team’s goalie — the team’s only female player. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/06/us/pittsburgh-armstrong-hockey-chant-ban.html