Alex Wennberg Makes an Official Statement on His Harassment
In what is probably the weirdest hockey story of the year, a section of the hockey community is under fire for harassing Seattle Kraken forward Alex Wennberg.
After Wennberg's wife released a statement a few days ago, the player has now taken to social media to share his own take.
LINK: Wennberg's Wife's Statement
Wennberg Wants it to Stop
A special section of the Hockey Community is closely tied to something called BookTok, where fans can make fanfiction, often with an explicit nature, about their favourite hockey players.
Wennberg, who is a favourite to many due to his striking appearance, is deeply tied to this faction of hockey - entirely against his will.
Wennberg's statement asked fans to stop the harassment on social media, citing the sanctity of his family and safety of his child as the main reasons.
Over the last couple of days, me and especially my wife, have been getting lots of criticism about speaking up on sexually harassment on TikTok.
As someone who's been media trained my whole career I've been taught to bite my tongue and to leave it instead of making a statement. But it has gone too far for me to stay quiet when people post vile comments on my wife's instagram and on photos of our child.
The reason my wife said something and not me is simply she does it better and more bravely than me.
I'm all for the booktok community to write books and fiction about hockey but the aggressive language about real life players is too much. It has turned into daily and weekly comments on our personal social media.
This is not something we support or want our child to grow up with. All we ask for is a little respect and common sense regarding moving forward.
We can all take a joke and funny comments but when it turns personal and into something bigger that affects our family we need to tell you that we have had enough.
Enough of sexual harassment, and harassment of our character and our relationship.
Thank you for understanding
As someone who's been media trained my whole career I've been taught to bite my tongue and to leave it instead of making a statement. But it has gone too far for me to stay quiet when people post vile comments on my wife's instagram and on photos of our child.
The reason my wife said something and not me is simply she does it better and more bravely than me.
I'm all for the booktok community to write books and fiction about hockey but the aggressive language about real life players is too much. It has turned into daily and weekly comments on our personal social media.
This is not something we support or want our child to grow up with. All we ask for is a little respect and common sense regarding moving forward.
We can all take a joke and funny comments but when it turns personal and into something bigger that affects our family we need to tell you that we have had enough.
Enough of sexual harassment, and harassment of our character and our relationship.
Thank you for understanding
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