pansification

Hockey Night commentator Mike Milbury created the term pansification to describe how the NHL game would be changed by rules to prohibit fighting.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed WILLIAM HOUSTON 2009

What amazes me about this piece is not only MacLean's defense of the term, but also the comments on the article, most of which attempt to communicate the idea that using the word "pansification" is neither homophobic nor harmful, this despite the fact that Egale Canada received numerous emails and phone calls by people who were offended by the remark.

Ron MacLean, Mike Milbury, "Pansification" gay person of color 2009

What amazes me about this piece is not only MacLean's defense of the term, but also the comments on the article, most of which attempt to communicate the idea that using the word "pansification" is neither homophobic nor harmful, this despite the fact that Egale Canada received numerous emails and phone calls by people who were offended by the remark.

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In the best case scenario, let's say the word "pansification" was spoken innocently and without intent to hurt from the mouth of Milbury.

Archive 2009-02-01 gay person of color 2009

Check out this CBC article about hockey commentator Ron MacLean facing off against Helen Kennedy, executive director of LGBT rights group Egale Canada, over the use of the word "pansification" by commentator Mike Milbury during the 17 January broadcast of Hockey Night in Canada.

Ron MacLean, Mike Milbury, "Pansification" gay person of color 2009

Check out this CBC article about hockey commentator Ron MacLean facing off against Helen Kennedy, executive director of LGBT rights group Egale Canada, over the use of the word "pansification" by commentator Mike Milbury during the 17 January broadcast of Hockey Night in Canada.

Archive 2009-02-01 gay person of color 2009

In the best case scenario, let's say the word "pansification" was spoken innocently and without intent to hurt from the mouth of Milbury.

Ron MacLean, Mike Milbury, "Pansification" gay person of color 2009

Mike Milbury has groaned about the "pansification" of the game and dismissed those who disagree with him as "soccer moms."

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ROY MACGREGOR 2011

Interestingly, people who favour making contact sports safer - let's call them "the liberals" - are often subject to sexist and homophobic slurs see "pansification" and

Thestar.com - Home Page PHIL WHITE 2011

Milbury famously fretted about the "pansification" of the NHL.

Thestar.com - Home Page PHIL WHITE 2011