Kimberly T’s Reviews > Beartown > Status Update

“Will you do something for me, dad?”
“Anything.”
“Build a better club. Stay and make the sport better. For everyone.”

“Perhaps one day the man in the black jacket will think about the too: why he only wondered if it was Kevin or Amat who was telling the truth. Why Maya’s word wasn’t enough.”

“Fucking men! YOU’RE the problem! Religion doesn’t fight, guns don’t kill, and you need to be very fucking clear that hockey has never raped anyone! But you know who do? Fight and kill and rape?”

Sune clears his throat. “Men?”

Get em Ramona

“Are you in love with Maya?”

“She’s put you in a terrible situation, you and Kevin. A goddamn terrible situation. And do you think she cares about you, Amat? Do you think she would have done this if she did? It’s hard for you to understand now, but girls need attention in a different way than boys…. Men look each other in the eye and sort things out without involving everyone else.”

This is so ass

“They will wish that she would just disappear, that she had never been here. Not because they hate her, because they don’t, not all of them: they don’t all scrawl BITCH on her locker, they don’t all rape her, they aren’t all evil. But they’re all silent. Because that’s easier.”

“How selfish are we allowed to be? How much are we obliged to care about each other?”

Seeing Beartown go into conspiracy is really sad. As a woman, it’s hard when the first question is “What if he didn’t mean to do that? What if there’s another explanation?”

“It doesn’t take long to persuade each other to stop seeing a person as a person. And when enough people are quiet for long enough, a handful of voices can give the impression that everyone is screaming.”

“Shouldn’t have put herself in that situation. Shouldn’t have gone into the room, up the stairs, given him the impression. If only she hadn’t existed, then none of this would have happened, why didn’t she think of that?

She’s fifteen…he’s seventeen, but he’s still ‘the boy’ in every conversation. She’s the ‘young woman’.”

I cried. Oh, Maya…

“But that’s what it takes, a culture of silence to foster a culture of winning.”

Peter…. Your own daughter….

What *is* at the end of everything outside of hockey, winning, success?

“Culture is as much about what we encourage as what we actually permit. … that most people don’t do what we tell them to. They do what we let them get away with.”

Culture. Community. How are we going to move forward after this?