It irks me to no end to hear my tall (& big) male friends be asked if they played sports in school. I don't remember hearing people not asking the tall (& big) that. Like there aren't other interests, jobs, & professions to have.
I remember at Lamar University, my "college dad" asked my friend, NB, who is 6'5", I think, if he was on the basketball team. I remember being quietly embarrassed, but I observed how normal of a question that was to everyone else. He explained while saying No, that he was used to the question because people have been conditioned to think tall folks are only good for sports. He told us stories of the people from his small hometown who thought he was doing his mother a disservice by not being in sports. NB has a Bachelor's in Psychology and is a teacher.
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I'm not saying sports are bad. I'm a fan. My nephew plays them. He also wants to develop video games. I'm saying the mindset is messed up. While signing your son up for Little Dribblers because he was 19 inches at birth, pay attention to why he is asking you for K'nex & Lego sets in the store & taking apart & putting back together the lamp all the time. While he's running track because he walking bow-legged as a toddler, look into those 90's he is making in Biology & Chemistry. Those are just grades to stay on the team or "fall back" plans if he doesn't go to the Olympics. Those might be his real dreams.
This sports "ticket out of poverty" viewpoint has to end. I think elitists & racists started this crap. A change in this perspective may have helped this one guy from my 20s, who told me I was being unsexy because I was unclogging a sink late one night when he called. Wonder if he's still sitting around all day reminiscing about his sports heyday. My sink is not still stopped up.
Probably the "wokest" post to date. LoL I don't plan on getting many agreements on this post.
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