As a kid, I was asked why I never did sports. I was decently tall. Even though as you all know I'm a complete geek, I was into anime so I did martial arts. So I was fairly athletic. And the obvious reason.
Basketball, Football, even soccer. A lot of the higher course level teachers were the coaches, so I had a few offers.
Even as a teen, I never saw the appeal of doing sports for someone else's entertainment.
Yeah I was never a fan of sports either, though my parents made me participate as a kid, due to my general agility, height and coordination. I actively hated doing them, but my dad wanted me to be some kind of sports hero, so I was pushed into it. I remember, as a kid, it being one of my first memories of a time when "the world doesn't care what you think." I was sitting on the floor, watching cartoons or something after school, and my mom was in a chair behind me. School year was almost done, and summer was coming up, so it was almost time to sign up for baseball. My mom asked me if I wanted to do it. I told her no. And she, matter of factly said "Well, you're doing it anyway." I remember thinking "Well shit, I guess I have no real say in the course of my life." Followed quickly with "Well why the fuck did you even ask me for my opinion if it didn't matter?"
Martial arts was my one physical activity that I enjoyed back then, that was organized at least.
The idea that it's also a "secret" hive of racism and bigotry, as well as just overall shitty dudebro behavior, well, I for one am shocked, absolutely SHOCKED!
But yeah, fuck sports. It's a meat grinder for the youth, while milking them for every penny they are worth, and then kicks them out when they are now too old to take the damage, that they now have for life. Not surprising it preys upon the disenfranchised. I think the part I find most disturbing, is how much the US society at least, lionizes those who take part in it, so a lot of minority youth, see it as "a ticket out", but they end up just being meat puppets to make billions for the team/stadium owners.
Nothing I've cared to participate in myself.
