This one's a doozy, and I don't say that just because Bitty's wearing jean cutoffs––it's Hazeapalooza, formerly known as Hazestock, a time-honored SMH tradition in which frogs and Zimmermanns are, and I quote from Massachusetts General Law, Part IV, Title I, Chapter 269, Section 17, subjected to "brutal treatment or forced physical activity which is likely to adversely affect the physical health or safety of any such student or other person, or which subjects such student or other person to extreme mental stress, including extended deprivation of sleep or rest or extended isolation." Seriously, we get into a pretty intense discussion of hazing, abuse in hockey and the major juniors, and Check, Please!'s relationship to the toxicity of sports culture. Then we take a left turn into fetishizing Jack's body? So, you know, the usual? Plus: as Dex foreshadows, the cowlick cometh––and the author (and her habit of deleting blog posts and Tweets) taketh away. 

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