Women body-checked in street
A social media trend called body‑checking – a term familiar enough in a hockey town – has been experienced by women on the streets of Hochelaga‑Maisonneuve recently.
What pleasure the assailant gets from doing this, I don’t understand, unless it’s a way to infringe on a woman with plausible deniability. I simply bumped into her as I passed her in the street, Your Honour.
Blork 14:23 on 2026-06-12 Permalink
I think it’s a way for the most pathetic and stupid among us to get a very brief thrill out of doing something “real” (meaning something they saw on social media), which – for bonus points – is also transgressive, and since people on social media get away with it then they assume they can too.
Yet another example of how social media demonstrates and elevates the stupidity in society; a stupidity that in the past was largely harmless because it had no voice and was pretty much confined to very small non-virtual social circles, but is now writ large and pervasive in mainstream culture. Thanks, Zuckerberg!