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I think you're all a bunch of poopie-heads- you're mean and don't care about my feeeeeeeeeeeeelings.

I sent the following in support of this brave man...

Dear Mr. DiBenedetto-

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Finally, someone has stood up to the tag nazis. You're absolutely right, of course- running around, -CHASING EACH OTHER-with no supervision is an insane activity to suggest for children, particularly if they're not even wearing protective equipment!!

For that matter even with protective equipment, the children run the risk of running improperly, and twisting a joint, or falling down and getting a scrape. This is actually a matter of life and death, as recent fatalities from bacteria, which are antibiotic resistant because of the non-vegan death diet of this culture which floods cattle with anti-biotics, have shown.

Also, "tag" is nothing more than murder practice, and is almost as bad as letting children play with "toy" guns. Tag recapitulates the predator/prey role we are expect to play in this capitalist society. Tag teaches children it's okay to be chased, that it's okay to be hunted. Tag teaches children the only way to prevail is to turn around and become a predacious hunter yourself.

Also, since little boys are more aggressive and usually win these so-called "games" of tag, and girls lose, the boys are taught they should chase girls, which beyond the whole rape issue reinforces heterosexist hegemony and oppression and will lead to eating disorders among girls, and hundreds of thousands of suicides among gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered youth.

There are many alternatives to this dangerous and scary running around sort of behavior. Activities like finger shadow-puppetry are exciting, and provide good excercise for the hands and wrists. Of course if a differently sighted child, or one who does not have hands is present, a different activity should be chosen so as not to exclude them. And care should be taken that the children are properly supervised, and do not attempt to transition from one form to another too quickly, and that they do proper warm up excercises first.

I salute you for your effort to bring reason and logic to bear on this long ignored, disgraceful, and highly dangerous activity. Is it any coincidence the letters in "tag" can stand for Terror, Aggression, Greed?

I think not.

Very nice. You could write for the "Onion."

All I see is a downward spiral for these kids into Ritalin.

They are children. If they don't get to run around every now and then, then that might lead to inatentiveness( is that a word?).