— West Coast Woj (@BryanWojtanik) January 22, 2018
Huge shoutout to Ron Duguay, and I say "huge" because i would have to be pretty damn loud for him to hear me from under the rock he's apparently been living under every waking moment in which he's not watching or analyzing Rangers hockey. For someone that would had to have taken up permanent residence in a WiFi-less production studio while not seeing the light of day for the last 8-10 months to think it was a good idea to speak even slightly disparagingly about the tenaciousness of women, he's done a hell of a job maintaining some color. It really is a wonder how he's been able to stay so fashionable and keep his hair so wavy without access to one single window to the world. Honestly though, it's not so much the problematic sensibilities of a 60 day old white dude who probably thinks hockey provided a better product back in his day when the beautiful game was basically bloodsport that I'm concerned with. He's essentially been grandfathered into thinking the use of casually sexist rhetoric is okay. But to engage in it publicly? On television? In January of 2018? I don't give a shit if women's hockey - by both rule and practice - is a less physical game, because you need not do more than leave your home to know that you might as well take aim at the toughness of those playing children's sled hockey. I mean that literally too. I'm pretty sure that Ron Duguay had to waltz on by at least one women's march to get to work on Saturday, so maybe - just maybe - have the societal awareness to steer clear of a frowned upon topic that couldn't possibly be more topical. Even the most accomplished of comedians have had trouble lightheartedly broaching the subject of sexual harassment. Pretty sure that should be enough to dissuade an old-timey hockey analyst from trying to incorporate a gender generalization into the broadcast. If not because even the most logical of inevitable apologies won't be able to explain the lack of attentiveness to, well, everyday life then because it's more insulting to females than it is to the intended and deserving target that is NHL officiating. Ron Duguay turned crappy calls into secondary controversy and by putting himself on the hook he let the whistle blowers responsible for them off it.
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