I don’t understand what’s the issue with men being teachers.
There’s nothing wrong with women being hard charging corporate executives, head chefs, pilots, engineers or any other traditionally “masculine” job that doesn’t depend on physical strength.
Why is there something wrong with men doing traditionally “feminine” jobs that don’t literally require being a woman
Made a battle axe in shop class. Got a D.
There is nothing wrong with men being teachers. There is something wrong with predators positioning advantageously. The likelihood of men actually being interested in teaching, especially young children, makes me question motive.
As a caveat of my own, I would add that male gymnastics coaches and dance teachers are a problem.
Aren’t most kids molested by family members or friends of the family?
This isn’t the correct application of association.
Men dance and men’s gymnastics also exists.
Wholly problematic. And tennis is iffy.
And anyone associated with child beauty pagents
A. Women like men who can dance.
B. Male gymnasts are better athletes than you and have physiques that are more impressive than yours.
C. And since money is important, Roger Federer could buy you.
Maybe better for the bro science thread, but gymnastics at a young age is probably one of the best things kids can do for athletic development IMO
Yessir
This is all wonderful. Still a red flag when they intentionally involve themselves with children. And molestation is rampant in gymnastics, so there’s that.
I can’t challenge any of your points but they’re kind of moot in context.
I will say that I have no interest in a gymnasts body at this time, FTR. I like being strong, train in a powerlifting style and am enjoying that. Peak athleticism, across sports, I would say my best convergence of athleticism and physique was during some competitive wrestling years (cue creepy spandex comments), and I’d challenge your assertions there. But it was a long time ago and I’m not going to do the Al Bundy thing. I would quite possibly literally die if I tried to put myself through that level of training and conditioning right now.
No idea who Roger Federer is or what he’s worth, but even his name sounds like a pedophile name. I’d let him buy me out for the right price though. It’s good business.
Oh, and I never needed to dance to score. Sounds sweaty anyways.
Agreed
I agree strongly with this. Back when I was wrestling, my team’s coaches would have a few gymnastics-esque moves as part of the team’s warm-up routine. Because if you take an unathletic kid and get them to the point where they can do a front-handspring, they must’ve improved a bunch of physical qualities along the way.
I would change that to read that 95% of the SJW who come to the attention of the button-pushing media are weird/aggressive/angry. The rest (the sane ones) are out there trying to figure out how to manage nursing home abuses. Nothing that makes the media, because no one cares. Where’s the glory?
The ones you’re talking about are this crew:
But I would say that this is true of their opposition as well. You are angry at them for reasons “rooted in your sensibilities.” Are you certain you’re not carrying someone else’s water? I would say you are. Because what if people like you banded together with the people of integrity on the other side of the aisle and demanded real and important change (e.g. the inner city policing issue or consequences for predators)? The corrupt political system would not be able to shrug it off, as they do when the two sides are fighting over what the outliers have said and done. So we’re all represented by the loudest idiots. And the politicians go to parties with the people controlling them.
Not at all! Rant away, I do it, too!
We would do dive rolls, reverse somersault/handsprings, log rolls and cherry pickers.
My one high school coach, upon seeing my 6 mo. old son said “Get him into gymnastics for the first few years!”.
Speaking of creepy, I have to admit “Cherry picker” had a different meaning in my wrestling experience.
To Zecarlos earlier point, however, the agility and gymnast cross-over training we did was usually part of the warmup for us. I never could’ve done the parallel bar flips, never would’ve been able to prance/flip across an open mat for points successfully et cetera because we never trained the patterns and specific motor skills necessary to direct base athleticism that way, but ring dips, explosive muscle-ups, agility in general, old school rope climbs et cetera were all part of conditioning. And pretty much everyone but the big boned heavyweights could hit a back flip cold, on cue.
For the record, I understand gymnasts are very athletic, but male coaches working with little kids are my problem. And not without a track record.
. Yeah, I’m sure there is regional variation to the meaning of that phrase.
I would guess this is the gymnastics version of cherry picking. And it’s gayer.