i_like_1981 wrote:I think that if anyone else wants to post more information about themselves on this thread, they should use the same questionnaire structure as Earl's post. I believe most of my answers to those questions can be discerned by reading my post on this thread. So how about we use that as the formula for this thread?
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i_like_1981
Good idea, especially considering I don't think I'll be able to find all the info I've posted about myself in other threads. Although, keep in mind that some information may change as I may forget to update this post, for example, my age.
Age: 15 years old
Marital Status: Single
Political affiliation: Hard to define. I'm definitely mostly on the left wing and fairly liberal, but my stance on many topics vary.
Religion: None. Raised Protestant, became an atheist after my friend died when we were just children, went through a couple years of being somewhat anti-religious, and eventually reached the point where I'm at now where I don't consider myself an atheist. I don't consider myself anything in terms of religion, and I've now reached the point where I respect a wide diversity of beliefs and am not against religion.
Hobbies: Playing bass, creating architectural renditions if I have the time, snowboarding, working out.
Choice of entertainment: Inception; The Good, The Bad And The Ugly; The Hangover; Der Untergang (Downfall); historical documentaries (mainly of the WWII era, the Cold War era, and sometimes the Ancient Greek/Roman/Egyptian eras and the WWI era); The Superbowl
................................Just kidding!
Brief summary of view on sports: Well, before I state my views on sports, just in case, I should point out that I put text at the very end of the Choice of entertainment heading which is in a light colour, making it less visible, which states that I was only kidding about the Superbowl. You can simply highlight portion if you have trouble reading it. Just thought it'd be a good idea to point that out just in case people missed, it, don't want to start a misunderstanding! Anyway, I don't watch or play sports, although I am friends with several athletes; I am definitely against jocks (please note that when I use the jock, I'm not referring to athletes in general, but the type of athletes who are very unintelligent, act violently, aggressively and even criminally, and often pick on those who are weaker yet more intelligent than them); I believe that professional athletes are overpaid and they even often get away with their wrongdoings without suffering the same consequences that a normal person would (sometimes they don't even have to be professional athletes, maybe even just on the highschool football team); I am not against someone simply because they play or watch sports, but I will be against them if they do something wrong, regardless of whether or not their wrongdoing is associated with sports; I believe sports often cause bullying in the school system; and, like Earl, I believe that nonathletic school students shouldn't be forced to take mandatory sports-based PE classes, but should instead be able to choose between sports-based PE or an alternative PE course that doesn't focus on sports but emphasizes physical fitness.
Life experiences relevant to view of sports: Went through several years of bullying in school which I believe can be associated with sports in some way. In grade 7, as I went to a new school, the only people I knew eventually became my bullies. Being a very shy kid, I couldn't hang out with any other people, and I also didn't want to be a "loner" during break, so I would have to hang out with the kids who would torment me. We would go to the nearby creek, away from the teachers who supervised during our breaks, and we would play this brutal sport where someone would have to carry around a club and chase people and hit them with the club. You had to beat that person with the club until they had endured a large amount of pain (they had to, at the very least, be bleeding), and at that point, the person who was beaten would take the club and continue the game. You couldn't say you didn't want to play, and they would often rig the game against me by having everyone else collaborate to let the club-wielder get to me easier, and they would manipulate the rules when I was holding the club so they could throw rocks at me, but of course I couldn't do the same to them when they had the club. I got out of that group by grade 8. Still, in grade 8, I was a victim of bullying. Most of this occurred in grade 8 PE class, and of course the bullies were the athletes in the class, and I just happened to not be athletic. In grade 9, before PE class, a grade 12 student who was very involved in the school's athletic field walked into the changeroom and threw all of my belongings off of the bench, knocking several papers in my books loose. I was fairly annoyed, as there was plenty of empty space on the benches, and I muttered "Fucking douchebag". He misheard it and thought it was another insult, but I still clarified that I instead called him a douchebag. He slammed me into a few walls (which had hooks on them to hang coats and backpacks), threw me over a couple benches, and hit me in the face. Of course, all of the other grade 12 athletes in the changeroom just laughed their asses off. How tough of him, beating up someone significantly younger than him. I also faced plenty of unfair treatment in grade 9 PE, even from my teacher, for example, I was forced to run laps for the remainder of a 1 hour and 20 minute class that had barely even begun, without slowing down, simply because I didn't catch a baseball that was near me during a game, even though I tried to catch it, but lacked the athletic ability. Now that I've reached the point in school where PE is not a mandatory subject, I stopped taking PE, and instead go to the school's weight room before school when it is open, where I've made much more progress in physical activity in the months that I've been doing it than all of the combined years of mandatory sports-based PE that I took. I even plan on taking a PE course in grade 11 which is entirely focused on working out and weight training, but has zero sports in the curriculum.
Damnit! Since I'm not posting on my own computer right now, I didn't select the option to keep my signed in when I logged in, and when I finished the post and clicked the Submit button, it told me that I needed to sign in to post a response. When it signed me in, I lost all the post, but luckily I copied all of my post after I finished that last heading, however I did put some effort into the heading about personal views on the site, which I lost completely. Anyway, I'll just put a brief summary of my views on this site in that heading. I guess that's actually lucky for the reader, because I'm sure most newcomers won't want to read the large wall of text I've created.
Personal views of this website: I generally agree on most subjects with the other members who are in favour of the site, but I have had disagreements with some members due to the varying extent of how far we take our opinions on this site, as my views on sports aren't really extreme and I've disagreed with some members when I've felt that they've taken their opinions too far.
Other info: Can't think of anything right now, maybe I'll add something to this another time.
despite the fact that I never had homosexual tendencies. Went on to say that nonathletic men were not "real men." The year before, I had come across a hateful book by a New York sociology professor (Patricia Cayo Sexton) denouncing nonathletic boys and men as "feminized males" with patently false stereotypes. Explained a lot to me. Hence, my strong aversion to the negative stereotyping of nonathletic boys.