I think that Shoresy, and Letterkenny, do a pretty good job of erasing many of the hockey stereotypes. You have a number of indigenous characters and actors in this show that are portrayed in ownership and leadership roles. Women also play a major role with Nat as team owner/GM and the three people that run the league are all women and appear to be indigenous as well.
In Letterkenny you have a gay couple that is handled very well and they become buddies with the hockey players. And Roald, one of the goths, is gay. Several of the main characters appear to be bisexual and female characters, like Katie, are very strong and call the shots in their relationships. There are also several other episodes in Letterkenny that are very positive when it comes to the LGBTQ community.
These two shows should be commended for being very positive and setting good examples.
thanks for doing a follow up article that touches on some ways they could improve. i love the way you introduced the importance of a pride night because of how they could do it right and even mentioning brock mcgillis, top notch idea and stellar link outs for my fact checker rat brain. i commented to a tweet of yours about your first article on shoresy, and i’ll paraphrase myself to say i wish you’d talk about the importance of the indigenous folks in the show, and respecting and including indigenous peoples and the way they interact with sports. ethan bear has done lots of charity work to use hockey to support indigenous communities and there’s already two indigenous people in the show in big ways. they could also benefit from including the HDA (esp at least consulting them), acknowledging the violence and racism inherent in hockey culture as it currently stands. they could also do work with akim aliu and the time to dream foundation, who would probably be more than happy to be involved with anything working on shedding hockey culture’s cone of silence. i want to respect the directors choices for it not being a critical show or satire but the involvement and consultation with marginalized communities would go a long way in my opinion.
I think that Shoresy, and Letterkenny, do a pretty good job of erasing many of the hockey stereotypes. You have a number of indigenous characters and actors in this show that are portrayed in ownership and leadership roles. Women also play a major role with Nat as team owner/GM and the three people that run the league are all women and appear to be indigenous as well.
In Letterkenny you have a gay couple that is handled very well and they become buddies with the hockey players. And Roald, one of the goths, is gay. Several of the main characters appear to be bisexual and female characters, like Katie, are very strong and call the shots in their relationships. There are also several other episodes in Letterkenny that are very positive when it comes to the LGBTQ community.
These two shows should be commended for being very positive and setting good examples.
thanks for doing a follow up article that touches on some ways they could improve. i love the way you introduced the importance of a pride night because of how they could do it right and even mentioning brock mcgillis, top notch idea and stellar link outs for my fact checker rat brain. i commented to a tweet of yours about your first article on shoresy, and i’ll paraphrase myself to say i wish you’d talk about the importance of the indigenous folks in the show, and respecting and including indigenous peoples and the way they interact with sports. ethan bear has done lots of charity work to use hockey to support indigenous communities and there’s already two indigenous people in the show in big ways. they could also benefit from including the HDA (esp at least consulting them), acknowledging the violence and racism inherent in hockey culture as it currently stands. they could also do work with akim aliu and the time to dream foundation, who would probably be more than happy to be involved with anything working on shedding hockey culture’s cone of silence. i want to respect the directors choices for it not being a critical show or satire but the involvement and consultation with marginalized communities would go a long way in my opinion.