“Next up: the Toronto Maple Queefs go head to head against Two Balls One Stick.”

This is what seems to be heard during a night of intramural sports. Up until last week, the Toronto Maple Queefs, an intramural hockey team at Fanshawe, were parading their name before they were forced to change it to the Toronto Maple Leafs. The name raised questions surrounding misogyny and sexism on campuses and the elimination of safe spaces.

Intramurals are supposed to be about taking a must needed break from school and having some fun without competitive pressures. Fanshawe’s new online registration process has made it much easier to sign up in order to encourage students to get active.

However, the immense amount of students signing up for over 20 sports throughout the year might lead to some details getting overlooked. Jackie Corby, intramural athletic officer, has been overseeing campus recreation and the intramural program for over three years at Fanshawe.

Although Corby keeps a close eye on the sanctioning of team names, there are no rules or regulations set in stone for teams to follow when creating their brand.

“What we typically do is make sure it’s not derogatory towards a certain race or a certain gender or any religions. So we usually do a quick scan of the team names and look up that information.”

Current team names include, “Multiple Scoregasms” for indoor soccer and “Scoregasms” for ball hockey. The underlying fact of these names that have been regulated may be hard to spot due to the rise in the trends.

“I’m not getting any younger… Young people are coming up with slang all the time,” Corby said. “Lots of times people will bring back their forms during the day [and] I will ask them what that meant. If they blushed or got quiet then I knew it was not appropriate.” The athletics department is not implementing new physical ways to combat this rising issue; however, Corby said she will turn to Urban Dictionary to learn more about the witty names.

However, Brianna Underwood, third year Media, Theory and Technology student, finds the names to be a harmless play on words.

“I have a sense of humour. I think it’s hilarious, but I totally understand why people would find it offensive,” she said. “Especially if it wasn’t a women’s team, if it was a guy’s team then I feel like that could be taken as insensitive.”

Underwood is attracted to the playful aspect of intramural sports, which is part of the reason for her interest in signing up for an undecided sport next fall. She will credit any athlete who can prove their team name to be purely hysterical. In her opinion, the late Toronto Maple Queefs was a group comprised of students wishing to practice their freedom of speech.

Nonetheless, Corby believes that censorship is important in order to ensure a safe space without targeting any minority groups.

At the end of the day, it’s the targeted group that gets to decide what is deemed as inappropriate.