Comments on: Won’t You Please Pity the Jocks?

By: Taking back the word “jock” « Fit and Feminist

Taking back the word “jock” « Fit and Feminist — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:56:16 +0000

[...] of course, it’s not like this is limited to movies. Over at the Pursuit of Harpyness, BeckySharper takes aim at a recent trend in pro-baseball hazing, where rookie pitchers are made to [...]

By: mischiefmanager

mischiefmanager — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:20:46 +0000

if any team that does this also made an “It Gets Better” video, something went way wrong.

By: oh hells nah

oh hells nah — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:27:05 +0000

Wow. Poor rookies. This is worse than genocide!

By: Es

Es — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:17:06 +0000

(off topic annajcook, but has that only recently arrived? Mine hasn’t come yet!)

By: annajcook

annajcook — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:57:25 +0000

Makes me think of my latest issue of Bitch magazine and the article on the media panic over "princess boys." These jocks need to take a lesson from kids who actually know a thing or two about not being an asshat:

“I picked up Dyson from gymnastics and some parents spoke about his pink butterfly backpack,” she recalls. “A mother: ‘What a shame that mom buys girls’ stuff for her son.’ A father: ‘I’d never allow my boy to be anything but a boy.’ Then the son asked Dyson, ‘Where did you get that backpack? I like butterflies.’ As Dyson answered, the father grabbed his boy [away]. Kids are not the problem.”

By: Ms. M

Ms. M — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 04:59:16 +0000

What is more worthy of derision than girl stuff? Girl stuff is the most humiliating stuff on the planet. It might have COOTIES!

Haven’t these men matured about 2nd grade?

By: Marie Anelle

Marie Anelle — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 02:10:51 +0000

Just because I didn’t feel like checking out of planet earth enough already….