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The Vegas Golden Knights are less than one month old, but have already felt the full wrath of the watchdog internet. It was going to happen sooner or later, it always does. No account is safe. One off-color tweet or poor attempt at humor, the pitchforks come out. Throw in a seemingly misogynistic tweet in a time when sexual harassment in the entertainment industry is the hot button issue of the time, you’re in for a bad time.
The Golden Knights found that out the hard way last night before their game against the Boston Bruins. The team’s Twitter account posted the Boston forward lines with female names rather than the actual lineup.
If those names sound familiar, they were ripped from the movie Ted, which the team thought would make it better after its mentions got flooded.
Yeah, it didn’t go well for them.
https://twitter.com/tjoshov/status/919696584677437441
So, the joke is that the other team is all girls? Please delete this it’s very embarrassing.
— Spencer (@panini_album) October 15, 2017
The Vegas Golden Knights are aware that they're a professional hockey team now and not a hateful meme factory right?
— ari (@thirtyfourseven) October 15, 2017
You do realize this whole line of tweets is awfully demeaning to women. You are clearly insinuating that males > females.
— Marc Nathan (@mdnathan) October 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/James_J_Gordon/status/919713912186195968
NHL: Hockey Is For Everyone!
Golden Knights: Wait, let me reference a racist franchise movie and make sexist jokes— Jashvina Shah (@icehockeystick) October 16, 2017
Live and learn.
[h/t For The Win]