Edric O Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123680101041299201.htmlWow. Just... wow. This is better than satire. I love Rupert Murdoch's bold new vision for the Wall Street Journal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 Well it's a dumb article, but I can't help but think that he should get people to play rugby instead if he's that upset with football. Sorry, soccer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edric O Posted February 4, 2010 Author Share Posted February 4, 2010 The point is that this article goes far beyond mere "dumb." It is an unblemished gem of the purest stupidity. And, IMO, funnier than The Onion - especially when you realize that there is at least one person out there who actually takes it seriously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunenewt Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 That article should come out on April 1st, I couldn't take it seriously at all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 I dunno, I find stupidity on that kind of level depressing rather than amusing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 To be fair, while I did find the whole "soccer is a plot to destroy America" and "soccer is Marxist" angles fairly insane, I actually did appreciate what started to become a gendered-comparison of soccer and baseball. I actually somewhat buy the argument that baseball is a masculanizing event; putting focus on launching your seed out of the park with the aid of your teammates. Both the pitcher and the batter sort of stand as competing, fetishized males; both are focused on vigorously "launching" an item/defeating the other, and the outfield/the boys in the dugout serve as a sort of-friendly wolf pack. Really truly, the idea that a batter stands between a pitch and the "impregnation" of the catcher to me is very interesting. Soccer, on the other hand, is much more team oriented, which is something I think we tend to associate with femininity. The lower scores do represent the focus on preventing the sphere of white matter from entering the gaping womb of the goal. In this sense, soccer is actually highly sexualized from the feminine perspective.On the other hand, there are female elements of baseball (the catcher) and masculine elements of soccer (uh, whenever anyone launches the ball into the goal), that shouldn't go ignored. But don't get me wrong: just because we can do a gendered analysis of sport doesn't mean that that sport is... trying to destroy and corrupt our youth, or... make us filthy communists. I dunno, in that senese, I felt the article was on to something, and I think it would have been better had it fleshed all that out and ignored the rest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rene Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 Dragoon Knight should have destroyed the hat when he had the chance ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiyouta Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 Soccer is the fluoridation of the American sporting scene....What? Surely anyone with half a brain cell would stop reading after that one line. Are some Americans *STILL* believing that fluoridation of water is a Communist conspiracy? Oh Obama, how I pity thee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunenewt Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 It reminds me of something Gunwounds would write.Any sport that limits you to using your feet, with the occasional bang of the head, has something very wrong with it.That's why its called football...oh wait...doesn't quite work for the Americans... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahdi Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Here I thought the fact you could be 300 pounds of pure gelatin and still pull in $20 mil a year as a pro athlete was what made baseball America's favourite past time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athanasios Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 And that moron, who probably has never played soccer, is a teacher!That's why we have so many people with mental disorders. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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