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Arwyn
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******Warning: This is a very offensive rant, if you can't handle your own life, I recommend you just hit the back button on your browser******
Honestly people! It is so annoying when people take everything you say literally, or feel like they need to define every word you utter. I know what my words mean.. hence why I use them. But if they're not trying to make you look stupid, they're taking it literally. Everyone uses figurative speech at some point in their life.. People now days are just too sensitized (meaning: people are hypersensitive). When I was in grammer school we picked on each other, there were the popular kids, there were the nerds and there were the losers. Nowadays, children are just plain soft. "safe" playground equipment, "safe" language, and those wonderful guidence counsellors who just want to make sure they're not smoking, drinking or having sex. *sighs* the world is just too soft.. the world is just too PC.. I know I'm white, and I know I'm lame.. I accept it, I embrace it and well I deal with it.
I just don't understand why everyone has to be a winner. That's not the way things are! Some people are winners, some people are losers! That's the way the world goes. It's called 'Social Darwinism'. The most disgusting display of this HAS to be the fact that in some schools they ACTUALLY have children jump rope.. WITHOUT THE FUCKING ROPE!!!! That's just jumping in place. As one advocate of such a revolting activity said "see this way they never miss the rope, and they can cross it in front of themselves and do whatever they want with it." What if they want to whip the really fucking annoying kid with the rope? Do they miss then? OF COURSE THEY DON'T... It's not hard to miss a target with an imaginary rope. If these children are continually told that they are winners, what are they going to do when the town slut turns them down because even THEY look down on the kid. Being humiliated in school teaches them to deal with rejection! If you show these kids that they're all winner, they leave school with a false perception of the world. Sure they feel great, but what happens when they come home and see daddy beating the living fuck out of mommy? Is it because mommy's not a winner? Or is it because Daddy's a fucking loser drunk who feels the need to hit mommy because he hates himself? The poor child won't know what to think... they won't blame themselves because they're 'winners'... I guess mommy's not a winner...
I actually was trying to vent this a few years ago... but the girl who decided to eavesdrop, turned around and said that the only reason I felt this way was because I was a loser.... hmmmm loser. Well, what if I am? What if, my being able to feel passionate enough about a topic to form a one sided opinion about it makes me a loser, then fucking kick ass!
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silentbob
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i saw that Bryant Gumble thing too, and i think what they missed the point of was the fact that kids start to hate themselves if they are being constantly beaten down again and again by the so-called winners.
I think the schools that take dodge ball out of gym class are just trying to make it so theres one less place they have to feel victimized. They go into the real world feeling horrible, they go home feeling horrible, i think they were jsut trying to make it so that there's at least one place where they won't feel horrible.
Everything i ever learned i didn't learn in school.
I don't think these kids are going to be let down when they find out they aren't a winner. Because it's only at three thirty or so before they have to go home and back into the real world.
I think EVERYONE is too sensitive. Dodge ball advocates will have a knee-jerk reaction to hear people are having knee-jerk reactions to dodgeball. Its an ongoing cycle.
I think for a lot of kids dodgeball is a nightmare. They dread going to gym class, they hate their teacher for bringing this on them and making them do it. It actually separates kids more than it does bring them together. it seperates the fucking agressive psychos from the weak pussy type kids. i was a weak pussy type, because the psycho agressors would whip the fucking ball as hard as they could at anyone standing in their way. The gym teacher didn't say anything until HE got hit. ANd he got hurt.
Dodge ball contributes to making kids feel weak, when in reality they aren't weak at everything, just dodging flying rubber balls.
My dodgeball experience was this, i would hide behind bigger kids and stay by the wall and the sides until pretty much everyone was dead and then i'd try to catch their balls, when they weren't flying to fast at my face.
is this a metaphor or something?
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birdmad breathing in pollution fumes on a spring d
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dodgeball is a metaphor for many realities
someone is ALWAYS trying to throw their balls at you
being, more often than not, a loser i agree with Arwyn. i'm sorry but sometimes feeling horrible is just the price we pay for being human,
It may not be right and it may not be fair. But in a universe governed either by blind chaos or a secretly malevolent "higher power" fair was never an issue.
At least there's truth in the horror. Life hurts - it's unavoidable.
i would probably be a more content person if i had begun to understand this sooner. but i'm still just beginning to get it. fairytales and religions are just the opiates we placate ourselves with
and at least, unlike the animal kingdom, nobody has to worry about being eaten by the schoolyard bully
that's just my thought on the matter
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i love you, no mean it.. i really do, seriously...
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misstree
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Hmm... I'm kinda on the fence on this one, but I'm going to rant and see what comes out.
My gut instinct is to agree with silentbob's point. Gym class was hell for me, as well. I was in gym four, the lowest level, and still was one of the worst atheletes in the class, in many of the sports. There were, however, a few that i excelled in--badminton and soccer. But sports with the potential for injury, like volleyball and softball (my best friend took a softball to the jaw, and she couldn't close her mouth after yawning for yeara) and *especially* softball intimidated the hell out of me.
Now, will life sometimes intimidate the hell out of me? Yes. But, especially as I am female, it's normally not physical. And, I'll note, this fear has faded--I do padded weapon swordfighting (www.belegarth.com), where pain is half the fun.
Where am I going with this? The arguments--
They should leave dodgeball (as an example) in, because it teaches kids to deal with difficult situations. Again, I'm going to have to go with s'bob's view that kids have enough damn difficult situations without having shit thrown at them. Hell, being a kid was probably the worst time in my life--all this crap happening and no idea how to deal with it, a total loner/loser outside gym class, did I really need to be picked last every time to rub it in?
And to counter the argument that it should be taken out: Shit happens. One kid's good at math, another's good at dodgeball. Without competition, there is no growth. Gotta learn to deal with it sometime.
Yep, in the end, I have to stick with the "being a kid is hell anyway" argument, and say that things like this should at least be examined--the jumprope is a little extreme, again, no improvement without competition, but that's competition against oneself--the best kind of self esteem builder. Being smacked in the face by a rubber ball flying at 75mph doesn't teach you shit except that you're an ass, and with damn near every person below the age of 20 either having self-esteem problems or lack of any depth, well...
I've rambled and ranted enough. Next?
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I stand around like the quiet type and all, but then I cut you with something after the game is over. Ha! you fat fuck, is this better than dodgeball? I would say. And all the big tuff ones avoided me, so they could go be tough somewhere else. You just can't control people like me by taking the ball away.
Having a life where you don't always get what you need isn't depressing, it's real.
I try to help the nice types, but they always end up hitting me with the dodgeball and acting all tough, but I can't get mad at them:).
For some freaky reason adults think kids are controled by what they read in the paper or see on TV, even college students. The media thinks they control everything, like if something goes wrong they have some control over it.
It's just an illusion, the parents believe the kids believe, and jsut by believing it it's true. Everything that gets reported gets reported, but it's all planned out, and well known what results will later be occuring. This season they've kept talking on and on about problems at school. There are none, they are just easy access to a video camera, unlike americans raping foreign girls over in afghanastin or wherever. Fuck those reporters. They suck at reporting. The police basically owns their asses. They are just paid little pencil pushers. Fuck anything they talk about, fuck the internet too, I'll tell you why. The internet is owned by the government, yes they have already staked a claim on ownership, remember hearing the military used it at some point a while back, it's all horse****. Advertisers own it. Money owns it, just like everything else. It's going to get caught up in the movement of money, and power, and run the same route as everything else. Whoever owns the money owns the internet. At some point, in this whole mess I have to throw in the towel. The bloodier the better but hey, wake up, when they want to torture you everyday or send gas bombs showers over all sorts of people, fuck 'em. I quit, what are they gonna do, pee on me? Who cares. So I'm dead, at least I cared enough to try once or twice, and maybe it didn't work out, the pieces never fell into place, god knows I kicked ass. And mr. recruiter doesn't know shit for Shit, other than that he's making a difference, for some poor kid who thinks about his dead dad everytime he eats cornflakes.
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After reading taking_words_too_seriously, i remembered that all the cute, popular boys that all the girls had crushes on and who had loads of friends were the ones that threw the balls really hard and ran all the way to the center of the gym to throw them. The people who stood in the back were the little prissy girls who were afraid of the balls and the rest of the weaklings. If I remember correctly, I was one of the best female dodgers of balls in our 5th grade class.
My best friend always stood in the corner and screamed when a ball came too near her.
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silentbob
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Yes. And you will always be better than them. and they will always remember you for being that girl who was the best dodger in gym class in elementary school. and they will always feel like weaklings inside because of it, and many other reasons.
Jumping rope without a rope is a little stupid. They say the point is to get your heart pumping, so whats the point of having a rope tehre to remind you when you mess up and get hit with it and have it hurt you? but why not just not have jump rope at all? why not do other things to get your heart pumping? Why call it jumprope without the rope?
and i wonder if there is a lot of criticism from the kids? if theyre all like, "Blah blah blah!! This school sucks!! i want a fucking rope!!! I want to play dodgeball so i can hit some kids!!"
hmm
i think some people think its so unnatural to eliminate dodgeball because they would consider not having it to be an abnormal childhood, as if some kid not having the same childhood they have means they are abnormal.
Theres no such thing as a normal or average childhood. Maybe eventless...
basically what i'm saying is... we should wait and see wht happens.
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pralines&cream
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All children feel pain in elementary school ... no matter if there's a rope or not. It's just the way it is.
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