Audio: Dallas Radio Hosts, Benn, Seguin mock Sedins in radio interview

[TOML]

I'm not amped up about this until Dallas displays another meme on their jumbotron. Make it an animated gif this time please.

 

[Toxic0n]

So for your example to work, you have to go and add more to it (the bolded red text). Yes, I guess if you go say a bunch of stuff they didn't say, you probably can make it offensive. Thanks for the help.

Nope, my example works without it. The parts you bolded were added to make the example easier to understand for the select few. Thanks for coming out though

 

[Dalagaze]

I don't find it offensive, but I sure as hell find it unprofessional, and I'm quite sure the league agrees.

 

[ZeroPT*]

I don't find it offensive, but I sure as hell find it unprofessional, and I'm quite sure the league agrees.

this.

 

[Chojin]

Wow, Benn and Seguin are total bros? Color me surprised.

 

[NHLPodium]

but they aren't professional athletes making millions to play a game. You'd think there would be some sort of professional behaviour.

Most pro athletes have never had to be responsible their whole life or held accountable, I expect this kind of behavior.

 

[domon]

I am of a different opinion than most in this thread and I, for one, find the conversation quite incesting.

 

[phosphene*]

Classless R-right guys?

 

[Tv9924]

The biggest idiot here is the host, "[The Sedins are] a good example to future brothers in the NHL on how not to do things", really?

 

[Tv9924]

I don't find it offensive, but I sure as hell find it unprofessional, and I'm quite sure the league agrees.

Agreed.

 

[SmytheKing]

Inb4 un-marginalized person tells everyone that it's not a big deal and to get over it.

EDIT: Way too late.

 

[arsmaster*]

I don't find it offensive, but I sure as hell find it unprofessional, and I'm quite sure the league agrees.

Well you weren't the one targeted. I'm sure you'd be offended if somebody suggested you had sexual relations with your sibling.

this.

see above.

Most pro athletes have never had to be responsible their whole life or held accountable, I expect this kind of behavior.

It's a poor excuse, but I agree.

Kids doing this in school get suspended, people doing this online have been criminally charged, adults partaking in these acts in the real world likely get fired from their jobs.

It's distasteful and unprofessional. I see no reason to excuse the behavior. Spoiled brats get away with stuff, doesn't make it right.

 

[CharasLazyWrister]

The biggest idiot here is the host, "[The Sedins are] a good example to future brothers in the NHL on how not to do things", really?

That's actually the one thing that stood out to me as really stupid. I wasn't and still am not quite sure what to make of that comment.

 

[Commander Clueless]

Most pro athletes have never had to be responsible their whole life or held accountable, I expect this kind of behavior.

I disagree.

When you represent a professional sport and organization within that sport, you are expected to be responsible for what you do and say in the public eye. I'm sure they are very familiar with this already. Heck, Seguin was already traded for disobeying this code of conduct....or so we were lead to believe.

And if you don't, you face the combined wrath of the Internet. Also, possibly actual punishment, depending on the gravity of your sins.

 

[ZeroPT*]

Well you weren't the one targeted. I'm sure you'd be offended if somebody suggested you had sexual relations with your sibling.

see above.


It's a poor excuse, but I agree.

Kids doing this in school get suspended, people doing this online have been criminally charged, adults partaking in these acts in the real world likely get fired from their jobs.

It's distasteful and unprofessional. I see no reason to excuse the behavior. Spoiled brats get away with stuff, doesn't make it right.

I'm 100% sure the Sedins have had to deal with this stuff their entire NHL careers. I seriously doubt they give much of a ****.
It's probably the most over-used chirp against them on the ice. The fact that someone said it in a Radio show shouldn't really bother them.

Plus most of the people that are actually offended by it are people trying to stretch it into some homophobia which is idiotic

 

[arsmaster*]

That's actually the one thing that stood out to me as really stupid. I wasn't and still am not quite sure what to make of that comment.

Yeah, kids, don't evolve your game to the point where you went from soft 3rd liners to MVP's of the entire league and scoring leaders, and likely HoFers. If you want to be well liked on the internet, don't do these things. You'll be scorned.

I've wasted enough time on this topic.

 

[Virtanen18]

Correct. The listener could also assume the joke was the Sedins wear matching pajamas or only date identical twins or always go to the restroom at the same time or are creepy serial killers in waiting. We can assume anything because the joke line never actually said what it is they do.

If the listener went into this wanting to be offended, the listener will add enough words or meaning to find a reason to be offended. There wasn't one word said that is actually offensive. Not one word. It's why no one who is offended can actually point to a quote of what is offensive.

You really need everything to be THAT literal?

Of course there are always people who get easily offended no matter how slight the perceived insult, but we can't let those folks dictate how we interact as a people.

So they're wrong, you're right. Cool. We'll operate from your standards from now on.

 

[Virtanen18]

A post I liked earlier in this thread:

This is just a microcosm of the much larger issue of sports culture, culture in the dressing room, and general ******-bro attitudes in competitive sports that can lead to casual racist, homophobic, misogynistic, xenophobic, etc etc comments.

But don't mind me - I'm just the PC police.

 

[arsmaster*]

I'm 100% sure the Sedins have had to deal with this stuff their entire NHL careers. I seriously doubt they give much of a ****.
It's probably the most over-used chirp against them on the ice. The fact that someone said it in a Radio show shouldn't really bother them.

Plus most of the people that are actually offended by it are people trying to stretch it into some homophobia which is idiotic

I'll do you a solid and give you my last reply.

Who cares if they've had to deal with it? It doesn't make it right, just as black man being called the N word doesn't make it right.

I agree, they probably don't care.

Being called sisters, is substantially different than suggesting incest and homosexuality, which IMO is what those comments can be construed as. I don't see how it's idiotic.....what do you think they were insinuating?

 

[Pilky01]

Were Seguin and Benn being childish? Yes.

Should they have engaged in that discussion? No.

Are pro hockey players known for their intelligence? No.

Is it weird that the Sedins are 30+ year old men who have spent their entire lives together and go as far as shaving the same goatee for their whole lives? Yes.

Seguin and Benn can be childish ****** and the Sedins can be a little bit weird.

 

[Troy McClure]

You really need everything to be THAT literal?


So they're wrong, you're right. Cool. We'll operate from your standards from now on.

So who's standards are we supposed to operate by? Yours? Or the most sensitive person we can find?

 

[ZeroPT*]

I'll do you a solid and give you my last reply.

Who cares if they've had to deal with it? It doesn't make it right, just as black man being called the N word doesn't make it right.

I agree, they probably don't care.

Being called sisters, is substantially different than suggesting incest and homosexuality, which IMO is what those comments can be construed as. I don't see how it's idiotic.....what do you think they were insinuating?

whoa I never said it was okay..

I said I think the reaction it drew out of people is ridiculous. Not that the comment was okay. It wasn't.

 

[Cupless44]

Here is how a classy Sedin responds to immature unprofessional punks...

Scott Rintoul ‏@ScottRintoul 12m12 minutes ago

Henrik on Seguin/Benn comments: "I think it says more about them than it does about us" Hear the full interview tonight at 9:35 on @TSN1040

 

[systemsgo]

I don't find it offensive, but I sure as hell find it unprofessional, and I'm quite sure the league agrees.

This. To be honest, reading the headlines, I thought it was worse than it actually was.

But I expected better from Benn just because he's a captain, it's pretty much par for the course for Seguin at this point.

A post I liked earlier in this thread:

That's a good one.

Were Seguin and Benn being childish? Yes.

Should they have engaged in that discussion? No.

Are pro hockey players known for their intelligence? No.

Is it weird that the Sedins are 30+ year old men who have spent their entire lives together and go as far as shaving the same goatee for their whole lives? Yes.

Seguin and Benn can be childish ****** and the Sedins can be a little bit weird.

Is that as strange as people who have the same haircut for 30 years? I'm not sure why that would be considered weird, maybe they're just really boring/old-fashioned/don't care that much about their looks.

 

[Serge A Storms]

Holy crap people get offended so easily. These are professional athletes. I hate to break it to you, but most of them aren't classy. Class is not necessary in sports.