Ratings for the cover stars of NHL 23. The female hockey player (Nurse) has a higher rating than her male counterpart

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[–]kingc-way245The Blackface of White Supremacy[S] 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

For those wonder, in NHL 23, male and female players can play each other and their ratings are determined REGARDLESS OF SEX. This means Nurse isn’t 90/99 against only female players but male players as well. Which is ridiculous since the Canadian Women’s hockey team (the team Nurse plays for) can’t even beat Junior hockey teams.

https://imgur.com/a/XuKh7ny

Also, when males and females play each other, EA programmed it to where the male players are barred from using certain movies against their female counterparts.

[–]LtGreenCo 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Nah they should've programmed some realism into it. Like if a female player gets body checked by a male player she ends up in an ambulance and is gone the rest of the season.

[–]TroonsAreGroomers 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

male players are barred from using certain movies against their female counterparts.

Unless your player decides to identify as a trans woman. All moves are now available for the stronger male player, resulting in easy victory

[–]alladd 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

i'm reminded of bill burr's rant from his red rocks special. women athletes have been around forever and women just don't give a shit. now men are being forced to pretend to care to keep these leagues afloat because women just never will.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In the history of the NHL--and do note that I am specifying the NHL here, because that's what this game is based on--the number of women players can be counted on the fingers of a single hand, with fingers to spare. None of the games played were regular season, only pre-season exhibitions.

Now I'm not going to say that there aren't women interested in playing hockey. There's actually a professional women's league, not to mention national Olympic teams, and of course the minor leagues undoubtedly have a number of them. But that aforementioned professional league? Only 7 years old, and has the same number of teams; for comparison, the WNBA currently has almost twice as many teams and is (IIRC) around 30 years old. So women aren't exactly beating down the doors to get out on the ice here, and the ones who do play either aren't interested or capable of getting a slot on an NHL team. Which, again, is the league that this game is based on.

So this is basically forced inclusion, shoehorning a member of a special category into a space that isn't for them, for no greater reason than the need to do something and receive the appropriate accolades from the usual suspects.

[–]filbs111 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm just surprised they didn't rename her "Doctor".

[–]The_Best_Yak_Ever 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I used to play ice hockey in high school. A single girl played in our league… like. Our entire league. She was on one of our home teams that played out of our same rink. We got on well, and I honestly respected her for lacing up in a full contact league as a 5’5” 110 lbs soaking wet girl.

But during our game, we met along the boards. I can still remember the way it felt to absolutely obliterate this poor girl, sending her crashing into the boards and then down onto the ice. It was like she just bounced off me. In that split second before impact, I thought “this probably isn’t okay…” but by that point, we were both prisoners of physics.

I felt horrible, and spent the rest of the game trying to avoid her teammates’ efforts at revenge. She was okay, and even told me she appreciated not being treated like a delicate flower. But honestly, it was obvious to me that day that we don’t belong in the same league. We’re just too different, and women are at an absolute disadvantage.

To pretend that Nurse would be anything other than roadkill in essentially any male league, is delusional thinking. I’m happy for her that she’s a star in women’s hockey, but comparing her to an NHL player is laughable.