Woke Twitter spins the wheel: todays outrage is The Bruins and Barstool

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Keys to Game 2: Cycle the puck. Pucks in deep. Pucks on net. Thanks to @barstoolsports and @stoolpresidente for tonight’s rally towels.

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So do women get towels or do they have to be harassed by @barstoolsports first? Asking for all Bruins fans with a conscience. #disappointed

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Is Game 5 going to be sponsored by the Klan?

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IT FEELS REALLY BAD THAT AN ORGANIZATION THAT HARASSED ME SO AGGRESSIVELY I HAD TO LOCK MY ACCOUNT ~MULTIPLE TIMES~ GETS TO BE ON A RALLY TOWEL,
@NHLBruins THIS IS EXTREMELY NOT A GOOD LOOK

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Oh wow do you have documentation of this? Id love to see it.

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No, at one point I'd saved a whole string of it but I think the site where I'd saved all the tweets doesn't exist anymore. I have the people all blocked now but you can probably find some of it with twitter's advanced search tools.

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Sorry I'm not gonna shut up yet, it stings VERY HARD that my hometown hockey team values an organization that panders to the lowest common denominator in our fanbase at the expense of women, minorities, and the LGBT community. I thought you were better than this,

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> I am a transgender hockey fan, and I outwardly identified as female for most of my sportswriting career. Barstool's writers and fans HATE ME FOR WHO I AM. So by proxy,
@NHLBruins
, I suppose that means you do too.

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Boston has chosen which fans they want — and which they don’t.

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Barstool Sports is an opening, festering sore on the body politic that sprung forth as the latest symptom of cancerous misogyny, and the Boston Bruins put their logo on their rally towels for Game Two of the Stanley Cup Final.

I hardly need to spend my time recounting the numerous ways in which Barstool has proven itself to be a horror show over the years. In fact, in grand Barstool tradition, I’ve decided to steal the work of someone else to make my point. Sarah Connors provided the necessary reading here, and I strongly encourage you to avail yourself of education if you have the free time.

What strikes me most, though, is how absolutely unnecessary this decision was. Barstool is a brand that’s popular in Boston; the company was founded there. It’s un-lanced boil of a public head is a loud Boston sports fan and is, of course, happy to throw the company’s money around any time there’s a chance somebody will slap the logo on something. And so the Bruins have taken rally towels, intended to be waved as a symbol of unity and encouragement, and decided that they’re best marked with a talisman of harassment and incitement.

The “no ethical consumption” crowd is likely to point out that the Blues have corporate partnerships with, among others, Anheuser-Busch and Monsanto, two companies which have wrought more than their fair share of destructions. As I sit to write this, next to me is a rally towel from this year’s playoffs baring logos from Enterprise, BMO Harris, and Purina, but also Centene - a for-profit health care middle manager.

In the hour or so since this story broke on Twitter and I published my first reaction to it, I’ve had a small handful of people popping up in my mentions to tell me Barstool “isn’t that bad,” that they’re “not really fans of Barstool but...,” and that I don’t have any particular moral standing to criticize anyone. I can’t speak with certainty to the last one but the first two are so egregiously self-defeating that it pains me to have to point it out.

https://www.stlouisgametime.com/2019/5/29/18644208/the-bruins-decision-to-partner-with-barstool-is-shameful

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