It's the simple equation: if you let kids be little monsters, they are less likely to have compassion when they are adults.
I too remember the "arguments" that "we just want people to be /healthy/" and it was such a fucking laughable argument because mental health is part of healthy and making fun of people is certainly NOT the way to achieve someone else's health anyway. They just don't have the balls to say "we want people to look attractive to me"
My big complaint about gym "teachers" is that no other class in a school would be allowed to be conducted the way they conduct theirs.
Take Algebra.
Imagine a teacher who spends all their time doting over the really smart kids who intuitively understand the subject and excel at it while all but dismissing those who manage to understand the work on their own through a lot of hard work as well as those who really aren't getting it.
Gym teachers don't teach. If you have adequate skills, they don't do anything to improve on those. If you have little to no athletic skills, they do nothing to try to instill the rudiments.
They're recess monitors who think they're hot shit because they've got a lesson plan.
Oh my God, this brought back memories of my high school gym teacher. I was in no way athletic, and gym class was torture. My teacher dismissed me as one of the lame kids, not worth encouraging. Then we did a unit on table tennis, which, as it happened, was the only activity I did on my own (we had a ping pong table in our basement). She played me; I beat her, and rather than being overjoyed the plump nerd had one sport she could do, the teacher proceeded to REALLY hate me after that. Painful at the time, but now, the memory makes me laugh. Take that, Ms. What's-Your-Name!
That is such a nice and compassionate way to put it! :-)
In my personal experience, gym teachers are cruel, heartless forces from somewhere down deep in the Inferno's nine circles, who exult in the torture of their quivering victims.
Then again, I was the trifecta of shit they didn't like: artsy fartsy, introverted, over-educated, not athletic, and WAAAAYYYY off the charts for height and weight for my class. I also got huge boobs when I turned ten. So yeah - it was a fucking shit show. I still haven't recovered - and I am a retired person.
Stupid presidential fitness award doesn’t get awarded to the skinny kid with a low body fat percentage. Only shaaaame. It’s always permissible to mock skinny kids. We looove overeating junk food to prove we don’t have eating disorders.
I am intimately familiar with this variant of body shaming. At one point in my life, I was over 6'4" and 135 lbs. I got relentlessly bullied over it. Well, not exclusively over being skin and bones, because we were also poor and the hand-me-downs came from an older brother 8 inches shorter than me.
The original PFT came about when the powers-that-be were shitting their pants that, if we were invaded by the Russkies, our soft, television-addicted children wouldn't be able to stand up to their attacks.
Look... I was born in '58. Not an athletic kid, but I walked everywhere. I was a little chunky in 6th and 7th grades. I stabilized by the time I was in high school. I hated gym because I was seriously asthmatic... I spent a lot of time in hospital ERs. All these decades later, I have one and 2/3 functioning lungs. And I'm okay despite a LOT of medical intervention. You work with what you have.
Okay, I had weight problems in school (in fact i still do at 63) and let me tell you the bullying and scorn hurt.... alot. For me the road out came from athletics, which, ironically was the worst about my weight. I was a lineman on the football team a wrestler who never won and a catcher on the baseball team, all while being overweight. The scorn and derision didnt stop at all. I blame my weight problems solely on myself and no one else and I know firsthand how hurtful it is. Those assholes on f and f can fuck all the way off. They're stuck in a past seen through the lens of being horrible people, thinking that that is okay. Man this pissed me off. Sorry for ranting but I know firsthand how bad it gets and how much it can affect someone and harm their self image.
They championed Sara Palin doing a photo op of taking doughnuts into her kids school because Michelle Obama wasn't going to stop her kids from having fun food.
Hardly surprising. When have republicans not been the pro-bullying party? Their entire worldview is predicated on being able to force conformity to what they see as the correct gender roles and social/racial hierarchies. Everything from their anti-trans hysteria to gerrymandering away majority-minority districts is designed to keep everyone in their “proper” place.
I was extremely...EXTREMELY... non-athletic in school.
I sucked at everything. Hated gym, hated the gym teacher who would take part in making fun of those who couldn't climb that damn rope, run, play baseball, football, basketball, soccer...
The only thing I liked was swimming. And even that was awful, because I had a severely deviated septum, and had to wear a nose plug.
I never had "gym" class till I went to a public high school. We were too busy reading the bible and dismissing the reality of dinosaurs to get fit in my Lutheran grade school.
In case anyone's wondering why Obama phased the fitness test out, here's Google: "The award is tied to the Presidential Fitness Test, which was a public-school fixture for decades but was phased out under President Barack Obama in favor of a program that minimized competition and focused on long-term health."
"It is a part of the MAHA movement, this is part of the, a central part of the MAHA movement, so they’re trying to combat childhood obesity. So that is the point of this to try to get the kids and you don’t just all of a sudden run a mile. You have to work your way up."
So good of Ainsley to say out loud, on national TV, that she believes that being cruel to people is the entire point of MAHA. I also gotta note that while Hurt whines that he just wants to help kids, Ainsley never once says a damn thing about helping anybody. I bet her inspiration for a career as a Fox Blonde was reading about girls bullying some other kid into suicide, thinking "man, I wanna do that, but BIGGER!"
It's the simple equation: if you let kids be little monsters, they are less likely to have compassion when they are adults.
I too remember the "arguments" that "we just want people to be /healthy/" and it was such a fucking laughable argument because mental health is part of healthy and making fun of people is certainly NOT the way to achieve someone else's health anyway. They just don't have the balls to say "we want people to look attractive to me"
My big complaint about gym "teachers" is that no other class in a school would be allowed to be conducted the way they conduct theirs.
Take Algebra.
Imagine a teacher who spends all their time doting over the really smart kids who intuitively understand the subject and excel at it while all but dismissing those who manage to understand the work on their own through a lot of hard work as well as those who really aren't getting it.
Gym teachers don't teach. If you have adequate skills, they don't do anything to improve on those. If you have little to no athletic skills, they do nothing to try to instill the rudiments.
They're recess monitors who think they're hot shit because they've got a lesson plan.
Oh my God, this brought back memories of my high school gym teacher. I was in no way athletic, and gym class was torture. My teacher dismissed me as one of the lame kids, not worth encouraging. Then we did a unit on table tennis, which, as it happened, was the only activity I did on my own (we had a ping pong table in our basement). She played me; I beat her, and rather than being overjoyed the plump nerd had one sport she could do, the teacher proceeded to REALLY hate me after that. Painful at the time, but now, the memory makes me laugh. Take that, Ms. What's-Your-Name!
That is such a nice and compassionate way to put it! :-)
In my personal experience, gym teachers are cruel, heartless forces from somewhere down deep in the Inferno's nine circles, who exult in the torture of their quivering victims.
Then again, I was the trifecta of shit they didn't like: artsy fartsy, introverted, over-educated, not athletic, and WAAAAYYYY off the charts for height and weight for my class. I also got huge boobs when I turned ten. So yeah - it was a fucking shit show. I still haven't recovered - and I am a retired person.
Every gym teacher I had can rot in hell, alongside the jocks that sucked up to them. Gym class is a waste of human life.
And.... (whispers) the showers.
[GAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
Stupid presidential fitness award doesn’t get awarded to the skinny kid with a low body fat percentage. Only shaaaame. It’s always permissible to mock skinny kids. We looove overeating junk food to prove we don’t have eating disorders.
Yes I know it’s not the same as fat-shaming.
I see them as part of the same problem, and dividing them seems to me another form of divide and conquer.
Body shaming is all of it and all stems from the same root: You do not conform to my idea of beauty.
I am intimately familiar with this variant of body shaming. At one point in my life, I was over 6'4" and 135 lbs. I got relentlessly bullied over it. Well, not exclusively over being skin and bones, because we were also poor and the hand-me-downs came from an older brother 8 inches shorter than me.
OMG 😥😭
But bullying is all conservative know how to do. They lead such shallow lives.
Unimaginative.
Uncreative.
Unoriginal.
I just saw the chyron “Presidential Fitness Test” and figured, there’s no way Donald can do any of these.
The original PFT came about when the powers-that-be were shitting their pants that, if we were invaded by the Russkies, our soft, television-addicted children wouldn't be able to stand up to their attacks.
Look... I was born in '58. Not an athletic kid, but I walked everywhere. I was a little chunky in 6th and 7th grades. I stabilized by the time I was in high school. I hated gym because I was seriously asthmatic... I spent a lot of time in hospital ERs. All these decades later, I have one and 2/3 functioning lungs. And I'm okay despite a LOT of medical intervention. You work with what you have.
Thanks...
Okay, I had weight problems in school (in fact i still do at 63) and let me tell you the bullying and scorn hurt.... alot. For me the road out came from athletics, which, ironically was the worst about my weight. I was a lineman on the football team a wrestler who never won and a catcher on the baseball team, all while being overweight. The scorn and derision didnt stop at all. I blame my weight problems solely on myself and no one else and I know firsthand how hurtful it is. Those assholes on f and f can fuck all the way off. They're stuck in a past seen through the lens of being horrible people, thinking that that is okay. Man this pissed me off. Sorry for ranting but I know firsthand how bad it gets and how much it can affect someone and harm their self image.
This whole essay could have been about how much sh*t they gave Michelle Obama for championing health and fitness. Always the hypocrites
They championed Sara Palin doing a photo op of taking doughnuts into her kids school because Michelle Obama wasn't going to stop her kids from having fun food.
Hardly surprising. When have republicans not been the pro-bullying party? Their entire worldview is predicated on being able to force conformity to what they see as the correct gender roles and social/racial hierarchies. Everything from their anti-trans hysteria to gerrymandering away majority-minority districts is designed to keep everyone in their “proper” place.
I was extremely...EXTREMELY... non-athletic in school.
I sucked at everything. Hated gym, hated the gym teacher who would take part in making fun of those who couldn't climb that damn rope, run, play baseball, football, basketball, soccer...
The only thing I liked was swimming. And even that was awful, because I had a severely deviated septum, and had to wear a nose plug.
We don't need that.
Not again.
And it's not going to make kids less fat.
I wasn't fat, btw.
Just really bad at physical activity.
I never had "gym" class till I went to a public high school. We were too busy reading the bible and dismissing the reality of dinosaurs to get fit in my Lutheran grade school.
Once you accept that the H is for hate, MAHA makes much more sense.
In case anyone's wondering why Obama phased the fitness test out, here's Google: "The award is tied to the Presidential Fitness Test, which was a public-school fixture for decades but was phased out under President Barack Obama in favor of a program that minimized competition and focused on long-term health."
Well, there's your problem right there. At the end of the day, you've got to have winners and losers, and the winners have to be me.
Kilmeade almost sounds like a normal human being with normal feelings here. Hurt lives up to his name.
It sounds like Kilmeade had a shit time in gym class. A lot of those people wind up at Fox.
"It is a part of the MAHA movement, this is part of the, a central part of the MAHA movement, so they’re trying to combat childhood obesity. So that is the point of this to try to get the kids and you don’t just all of a sudden run a mile. You have to work your way up."
So good of Ainsley to say out loud, on national TV, that she believes that being cruel to people is the entire point of MAHA. I also gotta note that while Hurt whines that he just wants to help kids, Ainsley never once says a damn thing about helping anybody. I bet her inspiration for a career as a Fox Blonde was reading about girls bullying some other kid into suicide, thinking "man, I wanna do that, but BIGGER!"