I realize that readers take what they want from whatever they read. However, my post was about how important sports were in
working class factory towns, how this importance was tied to "manhood" (so there are obviously gender dimensions to what was going on with sports, something bound to impact how I and every other boy grew up and what our gender biases would likely be), how sports and individualism/competition/ etc. are tied together and no doubt connected to the larger social system and again, how these values infiltrate our psyches, often behind our backs, and finally, how I came to see some of this through a telling incident on the basketball court, and came to grasp more clearly how we have to transform ourselves as we try to transform the world around us. So, what we get here are responses in which old men tell us about still being active in sports of one kind or another. Of some interest (not much) but having nothing at all to do with what I wrote. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
