write thinkpieces in sport

[metaphortunate]

http://uncannymagazine.com/article/masculinity-is-an-anxiety-disorder-breaking-down-the-nerd-box/

I read this stuff and feel like a cow listening to someone complain that beef is so bad for your cholesterol.

Like, in a way, we're on the same side. We both have the same goal, to get people to eat less beef.

And yet, and yet I have to react with I DON'T FUCKING CARE, YOU MURDEROUS SHITWEASEL. Maybe there's a way in which it would be more effective to respond with "That's true! Eating me is awfully bad for you! As it happens, I have this lovely tofu recipe..."

But at the point at which I can respond to a conversation about how unhealthy it is to kill me with genuine concern about the effects on my killer's health... he might as well kill me. He's already stolen my life, whether or not I'm still breathing. I've lost it.

But luckily, y'all stopped reading like 2 paragraphs ago.

Comments

[jae]

I guess I think you don't have to care, though? Other than if you're looking for another argument to convince men that the patriarchy is bad for people of all genders, I mean. The piece isn't actually aimed at you, so if you don't want to care, the author would likely think that's absolutely cool.

-J

[metaphortunate]

Indeed, no one is forcing me to care! But people have been linking it, so I read it, and I had some feelings about it, so I used some of my wonderful new lunch break to write about it. As one does. And no one is being forced to care about this either.