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Originally Posted by AR_Six
Good lord there are a lot of stupid people on this forum.
The remark was clearly sexist because it implied that a) female refs would be inherently worse than male refs, and b) she is female and thus probably has never played the game, and doesn't know what she's talking about. However, it's easy to dismiss because while a dumb thing to say, it was said in the heat of the moment after a loss to a rival. I think we can give Keith the benefit of the doubt that he doesn't really believe that female refs are inherently incompetent, nor that being a woman means you haven't played hockey and don't know anything about it. That would take some pretty epic stupidity, dare I say comparable to a certain poster in this thread who shall remain nameless.
I was when I heard about this, and remain, more irked by the play itself. This is yet another incident in a long line of cheap, gutless plays by Duncan Keith for which he never pays a price. He has multiple intentional headshots on his record, and if you look at that slash, it was essentially pure intent to injure. There was no question of playing the puck or even hitting the stick, he just wanted to hit the puck carrier as hard as possible. The fact that there was no serious injury on the play does not make the act itself any less despicable. That guy is trash, not because of what he says but because of what he does.
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Point A) No it doesn't. He's implying because that person has never played the game, they'd be a bad ref. Gender does not come into that conversation.
B) The question was dumb, which is why Keith was reacting the way he did. The question itself would certainly lead someone on to believe the person asking the question was being either very biased or simply silly. "Setting up the play?" Jumping to the conclusion that Keith was reacting negatively to the question was due to the reporters sex, and not the merit of the question, is a lot more sexist than anything Keith said.