is that I’m glad they’re not instituting a twitter muzzle. I think twitter is great for athletes it can really provide an interesting picture about the person behind the player. Otherwise we wouldn’t have things like Brad’s Q&A with Gspurnie, and today I learned about this little exchange involving Seba:

Hopefully the Whitecaps use this as a learning moment for the whole team and Lee does finally figure it out. Perhaps he’s getting there already.

Not to other people that may be watching, which was kind of the point.

It’s about changing a culture. The thing is, it’s cultural marginalization that runs deep with a lot of people. So deep, in fact, that it’s in the very vernacular of many people and they don’t even know they’re doing it. It’s probably true that Nguyen didn’t mean anything by it. I believe that. But the thing is, it doesn’t matter. It betrays that he is unconcerned about the fact that he’s a in a privileged role as a straight male in North American society, and it is this lack of concern that makes it possible for it to be 2012 CE and still have a large chunk of our population marginalized for nothing more than their hormones. Nothing will change until those that are in a privileged position align themselves to work alongside the marginalized. Thus, self policing is necessary.

Hadn’t seen that before.