The men’s team

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Ophelia Benson

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Sigh.

A “distasteful joke” by US President Donald Trump has overshadowed the achievement of female athletes at the Winter Olympics, says USA women’s ice hockey captain Hilary Knight.

USA won both men’s and women’s ice hockey gold for the first time at the Milan-Cortina Games this month.

The men’s team received a congratulatory call from Trump, who invited them to his State of the Union address and said he would have to ask their female counterparts as well or he “probably would be impeached”.

Sigh.

That’s not really a “joke” – not as normal people normally understand a joke. It might pass as a “quip” for people who like that sort of thing. A stupid gratuitous insulting “quip”.

It’s so Trump that he simply assumes inviting the women would be a drag, and that he says so out loud. Women are things for sticking your penis into, and other than that they should just let the real people, men, have fun together.

He didn’t have to say that. He didn’t have to let the men know, wink wink nudge nudge, that he too hates women and doesn’t want them around except at fucking-time. We all know that already.

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7 responses to “The men’s team”

  1. Acolyte of Sagan Avatar
    Acolyte of Sagan

    I saw some pictures earlier of the meal the team were treated to after the State of the Union speech. Trump really pushed the boat out for the all-conquering heros…a pile of McDonalds cheeseberders and bottles of water.

  2. Ophelia Benson Avatar
    Ophelia Benson

    Well, at least it wasn’t peanut butter on Wonder Bread and bottles of piss.

  3. guest Avatar
    guest

    @1 omg did he do that again? I wondered when he did it before whether it was just that’s what he likes to eat or whether it was racism, him figuring that’s what Black basketball players ate. But the hockey team is afaik white men.

  4. Mike Haubrich Avatar
    Mike Haubrich

    Men who hate women with sticks are reacting hysterically to the reaction, as you would predict, even claiming that the Men’s Hockey Team has been “canceled” and that’s why Democrats always lose elections.

    All it would take is for the men to apologize for not speaking up for the women, and that has not happened. Five guys refused to go to the hamberder-fest, but I didn’t see where they actually apologized. Jack Hughes said they were “caught up in the excitement” and didn’t really catch what Trump meant, but he still didn’t apologize.

    Meanwhile, the women had lunch with Stanley Tucci at his favorite Italian restaurant in Las Vegas.

  5. iknklast Avatar
    iknklast

    Mike, I’d rather have lunch with Stanley Tucci than with the inhabitant of the White House! Tucci has talent, and charm.

  6. Mike Haubrich Avatar
    Mike Haubrich

    Absolutely! And I think that Flava Flav would be a great guy to have dinner with, too. I understand he’s been a great financial supporter for women’s Olympic sports, especially the skeleton and bobsled crews. He also paid for the family of Laila Edwards to be in Milan for the Olympics.

  7. Piglet Avatar
    Piglet

    The fact that the hockey guys were given fast-food hamburgers in a conference room is just the crowning glory. Trump is an overgrown child and thinks that this is a wonderful treat, but to everyone else it reads like someone reassuring the hockey women that they’re not missing out on anything great. Not at all.

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