Sexism in KHL

[pulverapa]

It's just filled with sexism in the arenas, on the website and on facebook. Today, Salavat Yulaev made another sexist video on their facebook page.

Anybody else find this a problem? Sexism has nothing to do with ice hockey.

Yes, there is sexism in the NHL and other Leagues as well, but in the KHL it's just everywhere... If you want to discuss sexism in NHL, I suggest you start a thread there. This thread is about sexism in KHL, which I find troublesome.

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[HungryFrank]

It's just filled with sexism in the arenas, on the website and on facebook. Today, Salavat Yulaev made another sexist video on their facebook page.

Anybody else find this a problem? Sexism has nothing to do with ice hockey.

Yes, there is sexism in the NHL and other Leagues as well, but in the KHL it's just everywhere... If you want to discuss sexism in NHL, I suggest you start a thread there. This thread is about sexism in KHL, which I find troublesome.

I couldn't agree more!
Spent some time trying to find this video and when I saw it... I was shocked!

KHL, Salavat Yulaev Ufa, well, MEN LIKE HOCKEY TOO! I also dream about playing hockey and when I wake up I like to stickhandle socks and shoot them around. Why weren't I in this video?!

 

[vorky]

Can you post Salavat Yulaev Ufa´s video you are talking about?

 

[hansomreiste]

It's just filled with sexism in the arenas, on the website and on facebook. Today, Salavat Yulaev made another sexist video on their facebook page.

Anybody else find this a problem? Sexism has nothing to do with ice hockey.

Yes, there is sexism in the NHL and other Leagues as well, but in the KHL it's just everywhere... If you want to discuss sexism in NHL, I suggest you start a thread there. This thread is about sexism in KHL, which I find troublesome.

I am glad someone else has balls to speak of this here. It's an obvious disgust and I remember myself saying one or two things about this here before, especially in Salavat's thread, alongside with loppa. In general, it's not worse than the rest of the world but what Salavat is doing is just ugly. One after another, they post videos that are not related to hockey only with exposed girls.

Muslim countries are known to have problems with this yet many people around me call Russia "Christian version of Turkey" so I am not surprised they have problems with concepts like sex, sexism, homosexuality etc. A country with a tough stance towards homosexuality will surely have some kind of problems with sexism as well.

 

[pulverapa]

Salavat Yulaev video

 

[Urbanskog]

Muslim countries are known to have problems with this yet many people around me call Russia "Christian version of Turkey" so I am not surprised they have problems with concepts like sex, sexism, homosexuality etc. A country with a tough stance towards homosexuality will surely have some kind of problems with sexism as well.

Bashkortostan actually has a Muslim plurality.

 

[Jakk123]

And what is sexist in that video? Or is this supposed to be some kind of a joke?

 

[Ivan13]

And what is sexist in that video? Or is this supposed to be some kind of a joke?

What do you think a woman getting hit in the face with something white is supposed to allude to? Are you just pretending to be naive? The whole video looks like something a perverted old fart would think of and film in his woodshed. Insanely amateurish looking and filled with obvious cheap puns. The guy who made it must have a low opinion of the fans, if he thinks this is supposed to entice them to follow the team.

 

[Finnpin]

The ending was totally unnecessary

I have noticed this before that some Russian KHL clubs media department has jackasses running the show.

 

[HungryFrank]

I am glad someone else has balls to speak of this here. It's an obvious disgust and I remember myself saying one or two things about this here before, especially in Salavat's thread, alongside with loppa. In general, it's not worse than the rest of the world but what Salavat is doing is just ugly. One after another, they post videos that are not related to hockey only with exposed girls.

what would be the solution if it were your decision? There are some tasteless costumes but if ice girls/boys team (in this case, girls part) wants to wear something, why would you stop them?
PR teams which force women to wear something "slutty" are idiots and they aren't worthy of words. (See how funny it is that this sexist video had more attention than any other)
What if girls want to wear dresses, of course, NOT LIKE THOSE SHOWN ON SYU thread page 3, with holes only to show cleavage (they were stupid and I didn't approve it, it was cheap)?

There are always two sides, first are bad PR services who use cheap sexuality to promote their videos and second side is overly sensitive/perverted people who give this kind of videos credit.

 

[Exarz]

All publicity is good publicity?

 

[pulverapa]

what would be the solution if it were your decision? There are some tasteless costumes but if ice girls/boys team (in this case, girls part) wants to wear something, why would you stop them?
PR teams which force women to wear something "slutty" are idiots and they aren't worthy of words. (See how funny it is that this sexist video had more attention than any other)
What if girls want to wear dresses, of course, NOT LIKE THOSE SHOWN ON SYU thread page 3, with holes only to show cleavage (they were stupid and I didn't approve it, it was cheap)?

There are always two sides, first are bad PR services who use cheap sexuality to promote their videos and second side is overly sensitive/perverted people who give this kind of videos credit.

You know, it doesn't matter if they want to wear the clothes and make videos like that. They're 17-18 years old, they can't comprehend how this damages the social structures of a society. This is NOT ok. People should not take KHL sexism lightly.

 

[IamherefortheFinn]

When i opened this thread i thought that OP was talking about the sexy dance girls with borderline inappropriate costumes, so i came here to post that i like them what ever the political correctness might say. But then i saw the video that he was referring to.



It seriously is somewhere between inappropriate and just plain tacky.

I also saw later on that page a video of cheerleaders working out: that one went clearly over the line.

The thing is there are also women watching hockey my mom and occasionally my daughters included. I don't think that i would like them to see stuff like that. And furthermore we need all the attendance we can get, so it is not a good idea to alienate a big part of the potential fan base with videos that a lot of people find sexist.

 

[hockeyMB89]

It's just filled with sexism in the arenas, on the website and on facebook. Today, Salavat Yulaev made another sexist video on their facebook page.

Anybody else find this a problem? Sexism has nothing to do with ice hockey.

Yes, there is sexism in the NHL and other Leagues as well, but in the KHL it's just everywhere... If you want to discuss sexism in NHL, I suggest you start a thread there. This thread is about sexism in KHL, which I find troublesome.

Sweden...

 

[kingdok]

Salavat Yulaev video

Although it is sexist, I'm more baffled by the poor quality of the video.

 

[Mike Martin]

Sweden

 

[Mike Martin]

You know, it doesn't matter if they want to wear the clothes and make videos like that. They're 17-18 years old, they can't comprehend how this damages the social structures of a society. This is NOT ok. People should not take KHL sexism lightly.

It doesn't damage any social structures of a society, step away from the progressive dogma.

 

[hansomreiste]

It doesn't damage any social structures of a society, step away from the progressive dogma.

There is a fine line between narrowing women's reach of freedom and presenting them as sexual objects. Both are equally dangerous, primitive and disrespectful.

 

[Milos Krasic]

I laughed. I guess I have a juvenile sense of humor.

 

[penepi]

It might be sexist for someone, but whatever. More distracting is the very poor quality and design of the video.

 

[Siberian]

Salavat Yulaev video

This is not sexism, this is just poor taste. Thing with overusing word "sexism" will fire back in European countries.

 

[Jussi]

This is not sexism, this is just poor taste. Thing with overusing word "sexism" will fire back in European countries.

If that ending isn't sexist, I don't know what is. If a Liiga club released a video like this, their sponsors would be in uproar and the media would crucify them.

 

[kabidjan18]

All publicity is good publicity?

NWA! RIP Eazy!

It's sexist but it's extremely common in the area...I tried to follow Estonian hockey but there were more posts with pictures of their girls than idk, news about Estonian hockey...as usual every society had it's own problems so no need to be too condemning...

 

[Ajax84]

The video is sexist and dumb, but whatever. I have more of a problem with it being nonsensical.

In summary: Sweden.

 

[alko]

Salavat Yulaev video

more of them.

Sorry guys. When you find such thing as an issue, you live on another world. Its really amateur video, something like C movies for adults, but to make a thread about it... Commooooon, relax.