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  • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netOP
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    Hard disagree on this one. In a vacuum, sports is a hobby like any other, and it’s fine, if not my particular cup of tea.

    But in practice, it holds a unique position of cultural hegemony, perhaps especially in America, in such a way that it is inextricably bound up with gender, patriarchy, race, labor and capitalism. I personally hate sports because people assume things about me based on what they think my gender is, and use it to police my gender.

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      this

      I have no problem with people enjoying sports. What i have a problem with is people having a problem with me not enjoying sports.

      Growing up i was always asked about sports and expected to care about them, enjoy watching them, and have something to say about them. My not caring was an unwelcome deviation from what people expected then, sometimes that necesitated an excuse for why it was okay and i always hated.

      I hope its not like that for people growing up today, and we’re all just letting people enjoy things. As a kid the things i enjoyed weren’t okay and it wasn’t okay that i didn’t enjoy sports.

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      American football is blood-chilling to me as a flag-humping bootlicking spectacle of performative allegiance. It’s no wonder Nolan used an American football game and all of its symbolic “wholesomeness” as ground zero for his “scary leftist man with bomb” story beat.

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      Yeah, here in Australia as well, the funding for sports is a giant black hole that sucks in and destroys funding for the arts and sciences (unless the science is how to sports better). Resulting in us having the lowest proportion of Arts spending of any developed country.

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      I think it’s healthy to look at something like sports and, while recognizing it’s not harmful to society in and of itself, questioning whether it’s healthy that so much societal time, energy, and money is spent on it. I mean, there’s a not insignificant portion of Americans for whom sports is basically what they live for. I feel that way about Christmas, too. Is anything wrong with enjoying Christmas? No, of course not. Is it maybe an indication of something wrong in our society when for approximately 10% of the year, the culture seems to grind to a halt to make this one holiday the focus of our lives? Maybe, worth interrogating at least.