Comments on: We need to compete. [Bring back Bullrush]

By: Mick

Tue, 19 May 2015 11:16:37 +0000

My mother was a phys-ed teacher. She loved sport and competition, teaching girls mostly. Her family of boys were into rugby and boxing. It caused no end of family strife. To her the game and skills were all, to us it was winning. In rugby to take a knock without losing your wick and pushing on to the finish, you and 14 mates were against the other 15 [and the ref]. In boxing you stepped in the resin then into the ring, entirely on your Pat Malone and you had one objective, to subdue your opponent or he would subdue you. We are wired differently. Don’t talk to me of body mechanics skill and fluidity, talk to girls about that. Talk to your sons about winning. Thats what makes them men that provide for women.

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By: Sunshine

Tue, 19 May 2015 01:54:07 +0000

Thank you for the link back, Chris.

What. the. Hell. is. wrong. with. these. mothers.

I don’t know that anything is necessarily wrong with the mothers. It’s society that’s all messed up. Mothers are responsible for socializing children, and these women have no doubt rightly perceived that it is now socially-unacceptable for boys to be competitive or take pleasure in winning, so they are trying to socialize their children to fit in to society. I’m sure it’s not even a conscious thing they are doing, if you know what I mean.

But I think it’s still unhealthy for the boys. They should be taught humility and good sportsmanship, but they shouldn’t have the drive to win shamed out of them.

Good luck with your paleo competition!

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By: Looking Glass

Mon, 18 May 2015 12:30:11 +0000

Online gaming trash talking is its own art form. Wretch language, but hilarious in its casualness. “F*** off and die!” is a casual greeting in some parts of the Internet.

But that’s also part of the reason why Online Games have gotten so popular. The playing field is almost wholly based off the Skill you develop and it’s utterly merit-based: you either can or can’t. When you have to learn to play most youth sports with Girls, you’re handicapped the entire way up.

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