PANSIFICATION and other things that are wrong with our world.

Fuck here we go. This is the kind of shit that makes my brain bleed.

I was perusing the hockey blogosphere (fuck, did I just use that fucking word?) and found myself over at "Gripping the Stick Too Tight" and came across a magnificent post on the current debate revolving around fighting and it's place in the game of hockey. Make sure you click on the "beat to death with my own shoe" link. Fucking glorious.

Anyways, I felt the need to touch on Nuug's link to an article in The Globe and Mail. The article is about a gay rights group and their objection to the use of the term "pansification".

I am all for the fags getting married, being able to vote, being able to walk down the street without getting spat on and the fact that they are humans that should not be worried about getting their heads kicked in every time they leave the house. This is not nazi Germany or Missippi in the 50's last time I checked (although there are probably still places in the world where that actually is the case, I just haven't checked those places. If they do exist, and you are reading this, I have some advice for you: leave.).

What I am NOT for is gay rights groups perpetuating stereotypes. The first definition I found referred to pansy (other than the flower) being first and foremost a term describing a man or boy as effiminate. The last thing we want is for hockey to be effimante, and personally the last thing I want taken out of the game is fighting. Add shoot-outs, get rid of icing, implement mandatory visors, make werid lines where the goalies aren't allowed to touch the puck, make the nets bigger or smaller or festoon them with pink streamers. Ok, maybe not the last thing. Point is, some if this has happened and some is probably forthcoming, but none of this shit takes away from me wanting to watch a hockey game.

By objecting to the term pansification this group is:

1) Solidifying a term that meant effiminate becoming a derogatory term for gay men.

2) Probably getting Mike Milbury into wikipedia and maybe even a dictionary (let's not forget Stephen Colbert and "truthiness") for coining a stupid term.

3) Making my fucking brain bleed on a hungover sunday.

4) Being hyper-gay.

There are some prety tough gay dudes in the world. There are some pretty pansy-ass straight dudes in the world too. Fuck Crosby looks like he's wearing lipstick, take a look at Taylor Pyatt's eyelashes. Neither are effiminate, but...

Fuck I don't even know where I was going with this...

Bottom line:

THE TERM WAS NOT FAGGIFICATION. LET. IT. GO.

Great Hockey Quotes Part 2

"You don"t have enough talent to win on talent alone." -Herb Brooks



"The only difference between the Coyotes and ‘Days of Our Lives’ is that nobody has been shot on our team yet." -Jeremy Roenick



"I was a multi-millionaire from playing hockey. Then I got divorced, and now I am a millionaire." -Bobby Hull



"By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of the NHL playoff series." -Steve Rucchin



"He said he wanted to go play in his home country, and village, I guess every village needs an idiot" -Mike MIlbury on Ziggy Palffy

Great Hockey Quotes Part 1

"We're looking forward to building the type of team the Rangers are able to buy." - Bobby Smith (Then Coyotes GM)



"It's Anna Kournikova's 18th birthday, or as Sergei Fedorov knows it, 'The day I can legally start telling everyone I am sleeping with Anna Kournikova." -Craig Kilborn



"He's a gutless puke, that's what Travis Green is. That's why he doesn't wear an Islander uniform any more." - Mike Milbury



"Just charge me with the usual." -Bob Probert (to a cop, after he slammed his motorcycle into a car, while three times over the legal blood alcohol limit.)



"How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?"- Jacques Plante



"I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie." -Brett Hull

Mike Milbury is a retard.

So Hockey Night in Canada announced today that they would be adding the brain wave Mike Milbury to the squad for his valuable insight. What, was Corky from Life goes on not available? (Note: Naming the lead with Down Syndrome "Corky" was quite a stellar idea. I guess Tardlick was already taken).

Here are my Top 3 favorite Milbury trades of all time.

1. Bertuzzi, McCabe, 3rd rounder (Ruutu) for Linden

2. Spezza, Chara, Muckalt for Yashin.

3. Luongo, Jokinen for Parrish and Kvasha.