The Off Topic Topic

[crazy canuck]

Or maybe you were sexualizing something that isn't sexual

Possibly. It reminds of me what I heard once about the Boy Scouts (maybe in Family Guy?): I am not saying the Boy Scouts are pedophiles, but if pedophiles ever created an organisation, it would look like the Boy Scouts.

Similarly, teaching kids its normal that their ass is being constantly patted is probably ok, but if some perv coach wanted to get some feels in, that's exactly what they'd try to teach.

Your reference to a cartoon lampooning adult behaviour is a really good example of what I'm talking about in regards to the warping of views related to sexuality. I don't deny that there are serious sexual abuse instances in both sports and elsewhere and especially involving coaches. My point is focus on those rather than sexualizing all behaviour.

I don't want to debate your views on this since you have far more insight into this culture than myself, but I can absolutely see sexualised behaviours being normalised in the community to the degree of losing that meaning (or rather, hiding that original meaning to the point of members of said community picking those up as non-sexual behaviours and repeating it). I mean, isn't that the process that normally happens under the term "grooming"?

I think it is the other way around, the practice is there because it is an obvious way to encourage someone.  Groomers then take it further, and take advantage of the practices in place that necessarily place coaches in close physical proximity, and often contact with, the athletes they are training, coaching. I think that is why I am objecting to this sexualized characterization, if the situation was that the coach did this, plus other things then we are in full agreement this action is part of grooming activity - but standing alone, I don't so.  If we start sexualizing everything, they this sort of thing gets thrown in with the actions that are very serious and need to be dealt with.

[Sheilbh]

Incredible 90s moment, like something from the Simpsons:
https://twitter.com/arawnsley/status/1565720261990678528?s=20&t=M69kE99HFSEoIc7EDc5sfw

[FunkMonk]

Incredible 90s moment, like something from the Simpsons:
https://twitter.com/arawnsley/status/1565720261990678528?s=20&t=M69kE99HFSEoIc7EDc5sfw

I was a wee child in the early 90s but I have vivid memories of watching Gulf War victory parades and the Soviet flag coming down over the Kremlin. Add in Taco Bell commercials and it's a wrap, folks.

[Syt]

 

[celedhring]

 

[Richard Hakluyt]

That was a good one 

[Josquius]

Its an art I never grasped in writing, quite what level of description is appropriate when.

[Syt]

Fonds Soziales Wien (a foundation by the city to provide advice and support for persons in need of help - homeless, handicapped, etc.) is sending out a bus to inform about dementia. So they advertise:



"Dementia Bus on Tour:
21th till 25th September - don't forget!"
 

[Razgovory]

So, do you guys like to stick pennies in you belly button and then sniff them?  No, me neither.

[The Larch]

A graph on the decline of Humanities and rise of STEM subjects in US colleges in the last 10 years:

[PDH]

A graph on the decline of Humanities and rise of STEM subjects in US colleges in the last 10 years:

And people ask why I'm not teaching anymore...

[Razgovory]

Shouldn't area studies be a STEM?

[DGuller]

When did STEM become STEMM?

[grumbler]

When did STEM become STEMM?

Last Tuesday.

[Jacob]

What's the extra M for?