http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T549VoLca_Q

I had the same thought as Alison though. Even if he used it not thinking about the actual context, it’s in his vocabulary and most likely, it’s used amongst his friends. And that’s sad.

Personally, I’ve actually asked very close friends to stop using the word “gay” to describe things. As in, “OMG! That’s so gay!” Unfortunately, so many people use that word in this context and they’re not thinking about how derogatory it really is.

And with Seguin, the problem is that that phrase is in his vocabulary at all. If he’s tweeting it, he’s probably said it, without thinking about what it actually means and why it’s hurtful. And that’s, thankfully, where You Can Play steps in. It will be a learning moment for Tyler, which I think is great.

All of that said, obviously, everyone makes mistakes in the things we say. We own them. We learn from them. We all move on.

(I hope this didn’t come off as rude or dismissive, I definitely wasn’t trying to be.)

If he had said that to someone of a different race implying that they couldn’t understand/play hockey while simultaneously unnecessarily bringing up their race that would obviously be considered disgustingly racist and it should be. Why is bringing up gender when it is irrelevant considered any different?

As for Seguin, it’s not just that saying something like that is wrong; the fact that he thinks like that (and thinks about it enough to write it which takes it to another level) implies he thinks in a discriminatory manner. These comments don’t come from nowhere – you don’t write things even when you’re sleepy if you don’t believe them.

As for Seguin, he’s young and made a very minor gaff in a very public domain. Unfortunately for him, he’s a superstar and someone always has to make a big deal out of it. He’s young and he’ll eventually learn not to sleep-tweet, but until then it’s pretty clear that he didn’t mean anything by it, he was just trying to promote his friend.

I don’t know. I like Keith, he’s one of my favorites, but it’s not like it’s his first time being something of an dick.

As for him, Seguin and all the hockey players for that matter, I figure they’re human, and they’re competitive, and sometimes they’re going to be dumb assholes, same as any other human. Too bad they have a microphone in their face when they do it.

Though I’m still trying to understand how an article with a third-person penis reference makes it to print. But then again, it is the notorious piece of garbage Ottawa Sun that it came from.