Posted on 06/03/2019 8:20:18 AM PDT by mkleesma
Thousands of academics are gathering in Vancouver for the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences from June 1-7. They will present papers on everything from child marriage in Canada to why dodgeball is problematic. In its Oh, The Humanities! series, the National Post showcases some of the most interesting research.
The games children play in schoolyards are famously horrible, if you stop and think about them.
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. British Bulldog has obvious jingoistic colonial themes. Red Ass, known in America as Butts Up, involves deliberate imposition of corporal punishment on losers.
But none rouse the passions of reform-minded educational progressives quite like dodgeball, the team sport in which players throw balls at each other, trying to hit their competitors and banish them to the sidelines of shame.
When the Canadian Society for the Study of Education meets in Vancouver at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, a trio of education theorists will argue that dodgeball is not only problematic, in the modern sense of displaying hierarchies of privilege based on athletic skill, but that it is outright miseducative.
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Yep, we played that out at 29 Palms. Lets just say, its all fun and games until someone has to be medevacd off the playing field with a compound fractured tibia stickin out of their trousers.
You were in high school when Dodgeball came out?
I was third grade dodgeball champ at my school, Then a heart murmur sent me to the doctor. They found out I had rheumatic fever and they threw me in a hospital bed for three weeks. Never got a chance to play it again. So much for my shot co-starring with Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller. LOL
When he was young he played several voices on the Simpsons and was married to Helen Hunt
Also Man from Uncle and Rat Patrol
In the 60’s,We played tackle football drive way to drive way. Then one fall, about 4th grade, the biggest kid showed up with pads. All the neighborhood kids hit up the sears catalog for Christmas and most of us got pads that year. It was a defensive move by the parents. We played every year from 2nd through 6th grade and other than bruises and a little missing skin from getting tackled in the end zone ( both concrete driveways) no one got hurt. We learned to take hits and be good sports. And a lot of us are still good friends to this day.
Catwoman. Lee Merriweather....Smoking hot So was Newmar
Absolutely! A couple of my favorite toys were the Man from U.N.C.L.E. spy kit I got for my 6th birthday, complete with the radio that converted into a rifle and the camera/pistol cap guns (the horror!) and a Rat Patrol desert scene kit with the jeeps and dunes and everything. My name’s Mike, and I was almost literally Mike TV from Willy Wonka in the 60’s, when I wasn’t playing outside. Don’t even get my started on the 2-3 creature feature shows I watched every weekend growing up in northern Ohio. Somehow, I was not twisted into a malevolent and violent being, contrary to current beliefs.
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