Dodgeball isn't just problematic, it's an
unethical tool of 'oppression': researchers
National Post [Can],
by
Joseph Brean
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
6/5/2019 5:06:01 AM
The games children play in schoolyards are famously horrible, if you stop and think about them.
Tag, for example, singles out one poor participant, often the slowest child, as the dehumanized “It,” who runs vainly in pursuit of the quicker ones. Capture the Flag is nakedly militaristic. British Bulldog has obvious jingoistic colonial themes. Red Ass, known in America as Butts Up, involves deliberate imposition of corporal punishment on losers.
But none rouse the passions of reform-minded educational progressives quite like dodgeball, the team sport in which players throw balls at each other, trying to hit their competitors and banish them to the sidelines of shame.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Trigger2 6/5/2019 5:49:49 AM (No. 90953)
All these morons need to get a life.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 6/5/2019 6:31:49 AM (No. 90975)
I don’t recall Dodgeball growing up. Instead we had BB Gun fights and threw dirt clods at one another to pass the time - plus we had John Wayne and Ozzie and Harriet. Not a single one of us turned out to be a wussy or felt compelled to get a lopadicktomy. Of course, that was back when we only had two genders and marriage was between a man and a woman. It ain’t easy gettin’ old.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Highlander 6/5/2019 6:38:34 AM (No. 90979)
Blue-nosed educrat meannies have no joy in life and want to take it away from others. They ought to be lined up against the wall and whammed mercilessly with those nerf-type balls.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 6/5/2019 7:41:14 AM (No. 91018)
Capital B, Capital S.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
StormCnter 6/5/2019 8:07:40 AM (No. 91040)
Using this convoluted logic about Dodgeball, wouldn't the same criteria apply to most of our childhood games? I grew up in the country, so Dodgeball wasn't part of our playtime, but what about Red Rover? Chinaberry fights (the ammo must green because the ripe ones are too soft to raise a welt on the target), even group games such as Hot Potato and Musical Chairs? Remember Winkum? Spin the Bottle? Some players are selected often and some are rarely chosen.
I think I hate "reform-minded".
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 6/5/2019 8:27:38 AM (No. 91055)
Why stop with children's games? Let's do away with ALL sports--after all, I have never won an Olympic metal for anything, and that's not fair!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46 6/5/2019 8:47:31 AM (No. 91071)
"Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity."
Nancy Pearce
"I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it."
Walt Disney
"Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people."
Nido Qubein
"I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is repugnant, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy, and competition."
Fidel Castro
In other words, the left prefers non-winners. The left wants a population that accepts second or third or is satisfied to wallow in the non-descript masses and will not question the low level of absurd leadership the leftists offer. Non-winning people are easy to control and easy to beat. I do not see the likes of Hillary Clinton, or even Beto O'rouke, as lightweight as he is and as crazy as she is, avoiding competition! They can not stand the idea of real winners, real competitors beating them like a second-hand mule. Not trying, not getting out into the fight, not rising above the rest to challenge them is what they want from their voters. And right now, they seem to be doing a great job of making our children into that 'gray goo' of mediocrity they feel comfortable bossing around.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
chumley 6/5/2019 8:48:36 AM (No. 91073)
I never liked organized games of any kid. It just gave an excuse for the loud mouths and bullies to be even worse than they usually were. Best bet if forced into it was to get kicked out of the game quickly.
Far preferable to me was sitting under a tree pondering things or reading a book, and hanging out with chicks. Later adult beverages added to the experience.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 6/5/2019 8:56:09 AM (No. 91087)
They were whiney losers in school, so trying to get back at all those games that they
were too slow, stupid, uncoordinated and brainless to enjoy.
Go straight to Hades you worthless whiners.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
jacksin5 6/5/2019 8:57:38 AM (No. 91089)
The Left wants to convince everyone that they are victims. Why? Because victims can be convinced they are powerless to change their lives, and must accept Government as their only avenue for redress.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
droopydog 6/5/2019 9:26:50 AM (No. 91112)
I loved dodgeball, and it prepared me well for a life of white male privilege.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/5/2019 9:43:31 AM (No. 91126)
It was a regular part of school recess back when I was in school. We loved it.
There were no snowflakes then, no one was talking about oppression.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/5/2019 9:45:47 AM (No. 91131)
Ha!! Re #2, I’d forgotten about dirt clod fights. A regular feature every spring, after the rains, when the weeds on vacant lots grew tall. They never got a chance to dry out. They were pulled up by the roots and slung at other kids….
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
fayebeck 6/5/2019 10:02:01 AM (No. 91139)
It has always puzzled me that so many normal tough Americans allowed the snowflakes to destroy childhood fun. From dodgeball to the Saturday morning Bugs Bunny cartoons. All of us fondly remember and lament the loss of such fun but we allowed it to happen.
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