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.
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Dodgeball is a tool of “oppression.” (..) This “hidden curriculum” in dodgeball is far more nefarious than your average gym class runaround. Dodgeball is “miseducative” because it “reinforces the five faces of oppression,” as defined by the late Iris Marion Young, a social and political theorist at the University of Chicago. (...) those “faces” are “marginalization, powerlessness, and helplessness of those perceived as weaker individuals through the exercise of violence and dominance by those who are considered more powerful.” Young’s list of these fundamental types of oppression also includes exploitation and cultural domination.
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
Tue Jun 15, 2021 2:35 pm
MadPick
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I suppose you could say the same about any competition, really, whether it’s in the playground, in the kitchen after dinner, or at work vying for a contract or a promotion.
I remember well the feeling of satisfaction when I nailed the class bully with a little red rubber ball in the nut sack during Jr. high gym class. He never knew where it came from until years later (after I put on 50 lbs of muscle and 4" of hieght in the navy) when I ran into him in a bar and told him.
Tue Jun 15, 2021 2:51 pm
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...Dodgeball is “miseducative” because it “reinforces the five faces of oppression,” as defined by the late Iris Marion Young, a social and political theorist at the University of Chicago. (...) those “faces” are “marginalization, powerlessness, and helplessness of those perceived as weaker individuals through the exercise of violence and dominance by those who are considered more powerful.” Young’s list of these fundamental types of oppression also includes exploitation and cultural domination.
I guess that's one way to frame it
Another would be educating the 'marginalized, powerless, and helpless' to avoid being 'oppressed'
See the red rubber ball as the great equalizer
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Tue Jun 15, 2021 3:02 pm
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What about Red Rover Red Rover send TechnoWeenie right over?
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Tue Jun 15, 2021 5:24 pm
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I suppose you could say the same about any competition, really, whether it’s in the playground, in the kitchen after dinner, or at work vying for a contract or a promotion.
We are all evil, apparently!
You sir are at the 5th stage already?
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Acceptance When we come to a place of acceptance, it is not that we no longer feel the pain of loss whiteness. However, we are no longer resisting the reality of our situation, and we are not struggling to make it something different.
Sadness and regret can still be present in this phase, but the emotional survival tactics of denial, bargaining, and anger are less likely to be present.
Tue Jun 15, 2021 6:48 pm
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This thread re-enforces the sheer stupidy that some will go to. I echo Steve, Good Grief....
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