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So your org wants to support moms.
You build a nursery and expand parental leave.

You see a woman and say, “Hey! You’re a mom! We’ve got great stuff for you!”

And yeah, she *is* a mom. But she’s 55. Her kids are 25 and 27 and don’t live at home.

That’s how a lot of stuff for trans people feels.

There’s an old saying about mixing Church and State: it’s like mixing vanilla ice cream with manure.

You can keep adding ice cream, but it’s always going to taste like shit.

Related: I love hockey, but a whole lot of it is just shit right now.

That cocksucker succeeded in pushing policies that led to USA Hockey banning trans people from every level of hockey in the U.S., right down to beer leagues.

And Matthew Tkachuk is on his commission for “keeping men out of women’s sports.”

With the Olympics over, Leaf fans can finally switch from hating Auston Matthews to (checks notes), a different version of hating Auston Matthews.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIXED FEELINGS?

Man, fuck Trump for ruining USA Hockey for me

Nathan MacKinnon coming up *huge* for the Canadians!

Go make chaos in front of the net, let your defenders throw shots from the point.

Signed,

A Defender who Likes Shooting from the Point

Wait, Sam Bennett can get a penalty for running a goalie? Is this another one of those weird IIHF rules?

Both these things are true. Hockey is complicated.

It sucks to think that, if my recreational women’s hockey league were based in, say, Boston instead of Toronto, I wouldn’t be allowed to play anymore.

People from the States keep mentioning Kenny Albert’s call of the gold medal game.

Sometimes I miss American hockey broadcast. But I don’t miss hearing men call women’s hockey.

Lalia Edwards receives her gold medal

Laila Edwards’ name too 🙄

Arena announcer mispronouncing Emma Maltais’ last name 😐

Silver medals being awarded after championship games is so brutal. Imagine making the team that just lost the Super Bowl stay out on the field to get individual awards to remind them they just lost.

Trying not to think about the fact that Britta Curl just got a gold medal.

Okay, let’s hope the men’s gold medal game goes the opposite way, with the Orange One in the crowd to see it happen in person.

CBC broadcasters giving a lot of credit to the Americans. “This is the best American team I’ve ever seen.”

It takes a hell of a hockey team to make this U.S. women’s team look beatable.

It’s Megan Keller! Tall, tough defender.

What a game.

Knight and Poulin are two of the best ever.

Poulin’s already got 3 gold medals. It’s kinda nice to see Knight get her second.

How I feel about this outcome will have a lot to do with who scores the game winner.

This game could end on a breakaway.

So my first thought is, the Americans will benefit from the wide open ice after being smothered by the Canadians at 5-on-5.

But the Canadians have looked so good at those transition counter-punches. That’s huge at 3-on-3.

Poulin-Stacey-Fast vs. Keller-Coyne-Carpenter

I really don’t know which of these rosters might be better suited for the extra ice at 3-on-3

Yeah for sure.

Especially on the women’s side, there are so many players I adore.

I did pick the Americans to win the women’s tournament and the Canadians to win the men’s.

Just based on the rosters and how they’ve looked in the prelims

Maybe it’s happened another time since then, but the last time I remember the Americans successfully tying up a hockey game with their goalie pulled, some 22-year old from Nova Scotia got the game winner in OT…

Tallest two girls on the ice

Holy shit Laila Edwards to Hilary Knight!

Empty net for the Americans.

This has been a textbook demonstration of how to disrupt and shut down a team with a history of scoring a lot of goals against you.