So many quotes, so little time!
Also there have been a few coaches who have been wheelchair bound coaching sports teams in real life. So again your example fails here.
A few out of how many million since the invention of radio and indoor ice rinks?
Again, that kind of proves my point. It's exceedingly rare, thus not necessary for a tertiary, inconsequential background character. If you do that, you pull people out of the story.
If any CM did call me "friend" either I didn't notice it or it seemed natural in conversation that I didn't think twice about it. But yes I still get called Sir as a middle aged white guy by CMs.
Uh huh. I'm sure.
I mean, the obvious reason is that every female associated with the sport of ice hockey is a lesbian (at least in one old man's head). Duh.
No, as someone who once attended
(against my will, but then happily bought the first round after the game) more than one Portland Winterhawks game in the early 1990's with a gaggle of Lesbians, I can assure you there is only a small subset of Lesbian ice hokey fans. The other 50 to 100 ladies at the games seemed to be long-suffering straight girlfriends or wives. It's the Black part makes it doubly incongruous; most ice hockey league cities have very small Black populations. And even smaller Black Lesbian populations. Thus, it's almost statistically impossible to find a Black Lesbian ice hockey coach.
See my point above about pulling the audience out of the story just to virtue signal and appear woke.
Actually, I’m glad to read this is a thing. We just thought one of our servers was weird recently because every time she came to the table, she called us friend. I think it was at Kona Café.
I'm sure you are mistaken.
@Disney Irish said I was making that up earlier today. You are making that up. No CM called you "Friend" instead of "Sir" on your recent visits. You just made that up. Or something.
You can’t have it both ways. On the one hand, you’re praising shows of past decades for including gay characters without fuss or fanfare “as normal and routine parts of society”. But when Inside Out 2 does the same with a Black character, you decry it as pandering and inorganic.
If she'd been a Black softball coach, it could have passed the smell test. But a Black Lesbian ice hockey coach? That's one too many virtue signals for much of the audience to bear. Best to keep it simple, and low key. Believable. Keep it grounded.
I will never understand how being kind and inclusive to others bothers some people.
We used to call that
The Golden Rule. I learned it in Sunday School around age 7, in a mainstream Lutheran church in downtown Seattle that 15 years later asked me to no longer attend services there because of my "lifestyle choices" (AKA... GAAAAY!). But then a few decades later, when the collection plates began to run dry, they changed their mind and hung a rainbow pride flag above the front doors to drum up business. Funny how that works with religion, isn't it?
Apparently, now you have to pay an HR consultant big bucks to teach that to you. But I still follow it, and I still call it
The Golden Rule. It's a good one.
Woke is a completely misused word. It’s been co-opted as a synonym for (very) “liberal.”
The real meaning (slang) is to be aware of what’s going on around you. That’s all.
Be careful. I was told by a Black member of these forums that we shouldn't be even using the word as White Folx. Try and eductate yourself before you speak. Or at least, that's what I was once told without hesitation here.
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