Mocking people

[Aspergers_Aspie]

I am not a football fan. I occasionally have a look at league tables.
I am not against it but I wouldn't play as I know players spit on the pitch.
I was with friends in a bar, and some people mocked the people in our group for being interested in football. I think such behaviour is cowardly and pathetic.
They try to give the impression they are friendly too but they mock others.

 

[velociraptor]

I don't see the point of mocking someone for watching sports, but I also don't understand the point of watching sports.

 

[Jumpinbare]

It's usually the sport watchers mocking us who don't care about sports, but either way, it's very immature.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

I don't see the point of mocking someone for watching sports, but I also don't understand the point of watching sports.

I started watching baseball after taking my then-husband to a local AAA team game for his birthday. I found it fascinating. There are a lot of life lessons in baseball, about teamwork, about individual responsibility, about getting up and doing your job even if you are losing badly, about life in general.

I stopped watching baseball many many years ago, but started up at the end of this season to connect with a friend who was supporting his team. I found it again interesting. So many changes in the last 30 years. I doubt I would watch much of it, but for the end of the season, it was entertaining and elucidating.

 

[velociraptor]

I found it fascinating

I have the same problem with watching sports that I do with watching pornography. The activities in both are fun when you're the one participating in them, but much less interesting to watch others do it instead.

 

[Neonatal RRT]

In my opinion... the act of mocking someone is typically done by people who are weak and insecure. It's one of many techniques they use to build themselves up in their little minds. "I will tear you down so I feel superior to you."

 

[Mary Terry]

I started watching baseball after taking my then-husband to a local AAA team game for his birthday. I found it fascinating. There are a lot of life lessons in baseball, about teamwork, about individual responsibility, about getting up and doing your job even if you are losing badly, about life in general.

I stopped watching baseball many many years ago, but started up at the end of this season to connect with a friend who was supporting his team. I found it again interesting. So many changes in the last 30 years. I doubt I would watch much of it, but for the end of the season, it was entertaining and elucidating.

Baseball is the only sport involving balls that I'll watch.

Every time I see a football game (American football), all I can think of is how many players are going to get CTE brain damage.

 

[Cutesie]

When my brothers express wonderment as to why someone would be interested in sports, I throw back at them their interest in politics and other news. It's also a spectator sport, and their hours of being absorbed in it is just as much of a "waste". They don't disagree.

 

[Cutesie]

Every time I see a football game (American football), all I can think of is how many players are going to get CTE brain damage.

For the first couple decades of my fandom, I only experienced the games on radio. We didn't have a TV in our house. I still don't have one, but I can watch select games and highlights on my phone. Even though I share your dislike for the violence of football, I'm already hooked as a fan.

 

[Aspychata]

Soccer also. l worry about injuries. My tween daughter loved soccer, and then studies posted how dangerous it was. I didn't remove her, because she really loved it.

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

I don't like watching football or other sports either for that matter. I'm somewhat surprised that people were mocking people for liking it though. I'm used to the reverse being more likely.

 

[velociraptor]

I'm used to the reverse being more likely.

Yes, I have noticed this. I was also mocked for my inability to play sports as a child. A lot of bullying.

 

[Judge]

I was just thinking how our society has evolved to a new low in terms of mocking others as a kind of "virtuous contact sport". A terrible message for alleged role models to pass onto children.

 

[velociraptor]

A terrible message for alleged role models to pass onto children.

You mean like your phys-ed teacher singling you out as lazy in front of the other kids because you object to being forced to run?

 

[Judge]

You mean like your phys-ed teacher singling you out as lazy in front of the other kids because you object to being forced to run?

Or a sixth-grade science teacher who intentionally singles out one student in every class to pick on, if they perceive them not to inherently understand various scientific principles prior to such a class.

58 years later and I'm still puzzled why 11 year olds would be so acquainted with Sir Issac Newton without any prior knowledge. My bad.

PE class? Oh my...I have lots to say about that subject as well. Reminds me of those physical agility tests everyone had to take and how they translated into the color of gym shorts you wore. Inherently creating a miniature caste society on purpose so teens could discriminate against their peers on site- and color alone. And that your gym shorts often determined what grade you got no matter what.

 

[velociraptor]

PE class? Oh my...I have lots to say about that subject as well.

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That's why I can't run. Never been able to. I lack the minimum required circulatory capacity. Got mocked for it regularly. PE is where they put teachers who can't teach.

 

[Jumpinbare]

Or a sixth-grade science teacher who intentionally singles out one student in every class to pick on, if they perceive them not to inherently understand various scientific principles prior to such a class.

58 years later and I'm still puzzled why 11 year olds would be so acquainted with Sir Issac Newton without any prior knowledge. My bad.

PE class? Oh my...I have lots to say about that subject as well. Reminds me of those physical agility tests everyone had to take and how they translated into the color of gym shorts you wore. Inherently creating a miniature caste society on purpose so teens could discriminate against their peers on site- and color alone. And that your gym shorts often determined what grade you got no matter what.

I never had teachers pick on students (unless you consider my physics teacher slamming books on a table to wake up kids who were napping). But during recess and PE, there was no visible attempt on teachers' parts to quell the overt bullying some of the kids did to others. Minimal intervention on the teachers' parts would have nipped the bullying in the bud, but they just let it happen.

 

[Judge]

Minimal intervention on the teachers' parts would have nipped the bullying in the bud, but they just let it happen.

Sounds sadly familiar.