[Vision2020] Re: Boxing

[Tina Cunningham]

Here here!!!!  
I would much rather see the kids getting involved in a
sports activity, than gathering at the arcade and
wasting away into sloth-dom...(that's a new word
according to me.)
Too many critics......not enough good ideas like this
one.  I say go for it!!  Not my cup of tea, but who am
I to tell others how, or how not to spend time with
their children?

Tina Cunningham 
Moscow
--- Tim Lohrmann <timlohr@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Visionaries, 
> Here's the deal on boxing.
> 
> It's not complicated, has nothing to do with
> religion
> or masculinity. 
> What a sexist observation. Never heard of women
> boxing?
> Get a clue at www.womenboxing.com
> Laila Ali will never be mistaken for anything male. 
>  
> Some people just like to get psyched up and beat the
> crap out of each other. And not only that they love
> spending tons of time figuring out how to do it the
> best. 
> And yeah, it's fun. 
> 
> Fun to watch too. 
> Nothing wrong with being a little primitive now and
> then. 
> 
> If you don't like it, that's cool. Find something
> else
> to do, like read a Joyce Carol Oates novel or
> something. 
> Not MY idea of a fun read, but hey what's wrong with
> a
> little diversity in taste, eh?
> TL
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- DonaldH675@aol.com wrote:
> > Dear Visionaries,
> > At first I was puzzled that our local *Christian*
> > school would sponsor a 
> > fight night.  Why would anyone pay to watch
> > youngsters (and older "heavy 
> > weights") demonstrated how adroitly they can turn
> > the other cheek?  On the 
> > other hand, what kind of person could describe
> this
> > abusive spectacle as a 
> > "night of fun?"
> > Then it struck me that Joyce Carol Oates had it
> > exactly right. "[Boxing is] a 
> > celebration of the lost religion of masculinity
> all
> > the more trenchant for 
> > its being lost."  Joyce Carol Oates On Boxing
> > Doubleday 87, quoted in 
> > Newsweek 9 Mar 87.
> > 
> > Rosemary Huskey
> > 
> 
> 
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