Football-bashing insults Earlham
By Helen Marie Staab
I’m not a football player. I’m not even an athlete. In fact, I will go far out of my way to avoid physical activity, particularly in the form of an organized sport.
So at first I wasn’t sure why I had such a negative, visceral reaction to the recent football player bashing in “Cheers and Sneers.” Everyone loves to hate football players, especially in high school. But that’s just it: this isn’t high school anymore, folks. Get over it.
There’s something much worse going on than some archaic stereotyping when you think that it’s okay to insult the intelligence of an entire group of students. It insults the intelligence of all of the students at Earlham.
And I hate it when people insult my intelligence. I am smart, and I am smart enough to know that you cannot blatantly discriminate against a group. It makes you look like the ignorant one, and it pisses people off.
You’ve pissed me off, anonymous Sneerer. Cut it out.
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