tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post1583353559736612323..comments2024-01-05T06:18:18.086-05:00Comments on CommentaramaPolitics: You Are The ProblemAndrewPricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-15609928455483268162019-09-07T22:12:30.090-04:002019-09-07T22:12:30.090-04:00Glad to see you're back, too, Bev!Glad to see you're back, too, Bev!Rustbelthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12190297078043033514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-81311037664642680852019-09-07T16:34:39.981-04:002019-09-07T16:34:39.981-04:00Thanks, GypsyTyger!Thanks, GypsyTyger!BevfromNYChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14953050916932306270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-47272172440175002452019-09-05T12:45:47.069-04:002019-09-05T12:45:47.069-04:00Just wanted to say welcome back Bev! It's good...Just wanted to say welcome back Bev! It's good to hear from you again.<br />GypsyTygerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-47901274596008018702019-09-04T03:42:09.364-04:002019-09-04T03:42:09.364-04:00Kids dropping out of stuff their parents try to ge...Kids dropping out of stuff their parents try to get them into (be it sports, programming or music) is an old phenomena which is steadily accelerating for a variety of reasons. <br /><br />Its fine to make plans for your kids and try to nudge them down the path, but if my their teens the don't have a love of a hobby in them so strong they want to engage in it daily for hours then they aren't going to stick with the regimen most competitive organizations centered around the thing demand.<br /><br />Given girls are less inclined towards sports than boys them dropping out of sports faster shouldn't surprise or horrify anyone. The number Andrew bandied about surprises me a bit since last I heard the cumulative dropout rate for kids (male and female) is 70% prior to HS.<br /> <br />https://www.foxnews.com/sports/experts-cite-bully-parents-in-decline-in-youth-sports-participation<br /><br />Youth sports have long been seen as a right of passage in American childhood – from Little League baseball to Pop Warner football – but participation levels are dropping nationwide because kids say it's no longer fun for them.<br />The culprit? A pressure cooker environment created by overly invested parents, according to health professionals and many youth sports organizations.<br /><br />--------------<br /><br />"It ceases becoming fun and becomes a chore. And when it's a chore, you start to lose kids,' Paris said. "Sometimes parents forget they're little kids. I'm not sure I understand the motivation to fast-forward childhood."Anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16124128949343301445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-14340231734151460582019-09-03T19:58:31.858-04:002019-09-03T19:58:31.858-04:00Oh, another "aside", the mandates that s...Oh, another "aside", the mandates that sports teams be gender neutral:<br />From Charles Kirk on Twitter: <br /><i>A major Virginia school district is now mandating that:<br /><br />All locker rooms & bathrooms from K-12 be gender neutral<br />All athletic uniforms be gender neutral<br />Students be allowed to join sports teams that "align with their gender identity"</i><br /><br />What's interesting about this in sports is that one never reads about "trans-boys" wanting to play on the football team. It's only the "trans-girls" who want to play with the girls - tennis, track & field etc.<br /><br />Do you still miss me??BevfromNYChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14953050916932306270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-55098003510361263042019-09-03T19:13:53.971-04:002019-09-03T19:13:53.971-04:00As anecdotal aside: As a HS "athlete" on...As anecdotal aside: As a HS "athlete" on the tennis team, I had a revelation just a year ago after talking to my other female friend from other parts of the country who played on their HS tennis teams. My particular team, the boys and girls practices and played against each in practice. After sharing memories of HS tennis team stuff, I was shocked to find out that my friends' team never played with the boys. Female coach led the female tennis team. Our coach never considered that we shouldn't play together and against each other. It made the girls harder hitters and more competitive. And boys learned a "finesse" game.<br /><br />And as a side/side note: my coach was a football coach who was relegated to the tennis team bc he was also black, btw. The head of the athelic dept hated him (guess why) and thought he'd flame out or leave. But Coach Morton could coach any sport. The wonderful justice to all of this is that we had a state ranked team and players (not me), but the football team couldn't win a game to save their lives. BevfromNYChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14953050916932306270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-25479223326064715352019-09-03T18:22:20.371-04:002019-09-03T18:22:20.371-04:00BTW, this issue with this commercial is a classic ...BTW, this issue with this commercial is a classic step-two problem for liberals.<br /><br />Step One: See a problem...impose stupid unworkable solution that sounds great on bumperstickers.<br /><br />Step Two: Try to fix the problems caused by the "solution" in Step One...impose stupid unworkable solution that sounds great on bumperstickers.<br /><br />Step Three: Repeat step two.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-75400742178088918432019-09-03T18:20:33.174-04:002019-09-03T18:20:33.174-04:00tryanmax, I don't entirely agree. Let me reph...tryanmax, I don't entirely agree. Let me rephrase that, I do agree, but I think their motivation is to make girls more politically powerful. I don't think most of them worry about changing boys. Some do, but most don't care about boys.<br /><br />I think what they see is that men hold power, women don't (not entirely true, but so be it). They think that by making women more like men, they can take power from men. That means changing the natural instincts women have to convert them into political things... dump children, get career goals, aim for power careers, become cutthroat, etc. All their efforts to reprogram girls have been about making them more like the masculine they perceive -- a kind of 1950's sleazo dinosaur version.<br /><br />When asked about boys, they want to neuter them, but mainly I think to reduce competition, not because they see boys as "fixable," or they would be pushing harder on that angle. It's the same way the non-pacifist left is anti-war when Republicans wage it, but bloodthirsty when leftists wage it.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-59085793966428447892019-09-03T15:36:07.626-04:002019-09-03T15:36:07.626-04:00It all comes back to the feminist conception of bo...It all comes back to the feminist conception of boys as broken girls. When one asks, "If girls quit sports, what are we doing wrong?" what they're really asking is "What is wrong with boys that they like things that girls don't like."<br /><br />This is reminiscent of things that have occurred lately in video games, comics, and sci-fi. The feminists notice that most people interested in X are men, decide that's a problem, and meddle with stuff in a way that doesn't interest more women but does disinterest men.tryanmaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09881154741574720094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-40629277342321876992019-09-03T13:00:57.001-04:002019-09-03T13:00:57.001-04:00Hi Bev, Glad to hear from you! I hope all is well...Hi Bev, Glad to hear from you! I hope all is well!<br /><br />I don't know why liberals work that way. If everyone can't do a thing, then no one should be allowed to do it. It's definitely a herd mentality twisted beyond all logical comprehension... but it fits so much of their thinking. I guess it's a form of spite masquerading as emotional protection.<br /><br />As for girls, I feel sorry for them because they seem to be the target of this most often. I am very thankful that boys are usually left to fend for themselves. It seems to protect boys from the worst of it, but girls seem to be in season constantly for the attention of these idiots.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-27705156107036076502019-09-03T12:40:15.774-04:002019-09-03T12:40:15.774-04:00One other comment - The "team sports" as...One other comment - The "team sports" aspect was legit 50 years ago. Girls just weren't allowed to play team sports (unlike me) and just didn't know how to be on a team. Then girls who WANTED to play team sports got to and VOILA...better "team players". The key there is that they WANTED to play.BevfromNYChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14953050916932306270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-5577502281506080962019-09-03T12:37:21.906-04:002019-09-03T12:37:21.906-04:00Hey all!
Do not get me started on all of this. ...Hey all! <br />Do not get me started on all of this. It's same thing that happened to learning basic music in grade school or STEM programs. Some kids are "musical" and some are not or some are just not interested. So instead of making it fun and easy, they scrap music programs so the kids who aren't interested or not "musical" won't get their feelings hurt having to "compete" with Bobby Pavarotti and Sue the Flute-a-phone prodigy<br /><br />Some girls like team sports! Some don't like getting hit in the face. Why can't that be okay?BevfromNYChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14953050916932306270noreply@blogger.com