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The story about the high-school football player angered me. It was just a game, not military combat!Growing up in the south I was a witness to Male Bravado throughout my life----Guys would get in knock-down drag out fights just for the hell of it. Emotional release, I guess. And these weren't enemies fighting--they were friends just knocking the shit out of each other for hours at a time. I saw one guy get his arm and collar bone broken --- SEVERELY broken --- and he still went on fighting. WOuldn't cry and wouldn't acknowledge the pain at all. Fought til he was clipped in the head and knocked unconscious.
I've also seen it in High School sports---a friend of mine was a football player. One game, he got tackled BIG TIME. He was in alot of pain, kicked in the stomach really hard (later it was revealed that his gallbladder had been ruptured in the kick). He went to the sidelines and was just hurting. JUST HURTING---started to cry and the coach tore him up one side and down the other. What kind of PUSSY are you anyways? You're a FOOTBALL PLAYER for god's sake. What are you, some kind of GIRL? You play on my team and you keep THAT BULLSHIT off of my field, do you understand me? Are you queer...on and on it went.....the dude had a busted fucking gallbladder for fuck's sake---but even sitting there with a life-threatning injury, he was NOT ALLOWED TO CRY UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES....
It's sickening to me. I guess, as a woman, I just don't understand the need to be so violent---not saying all men are violent, but in my experience, the men who go for the MALE BRAVADO mind-set are the ones that wouldn't shed a tear if you killed their momma in front of their eyes, or kicked their kid in the stomach because it's a sign of weakness.
And we ALLL know that a male who is weak is just as worthless as a woman![]()



Isn't it ironic that in certain circumstances, such as this one, those of us who are labeled as "anti-sports" have more compassion for athletes than many of the fans?