are abusive relationships linked to playing aggressive sports too?
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Are Abusive Relationships Linked to Playing Aggressive Sports Too? Here is a news item published on March 28, 2014 saying that some high school sports may be linked to abusive relationships: Posted: Friday, 28 March 2014 2:19PM Some High School Sports Linked to Abusive Relationships Thomas Northcut/Thinkstock(PITTSBURGH) — Participating in high school sports is supposed to build character but it may be having just the opposite effect when teenage boys play football and basketball. A new National Violence Against Women Survey finds that a hyper-masculine attitude associated with these particular sports can make boys more abusive toward their girlfriends as compared to their male counterparts who play baseball, run track, swim or wrestle. The researchers had approximately 1,650 California boys in grades 9-12 answers questions about what sports they played, whether they were in relationships that lasted at least a week and if they had physically, verbally, or sexually abused a partner over the past three months. What do we infer from this? Do we need re-designing our sports culture in our educational institutes? But how can we do that without changing our sports culture in the Olympics? After all we have been playing these masculine sports for hundreds if not thousands of year! How can we do away with our legacy all of a sudden? Certainly we can’t, and we won’t. But we at least can start a discussion on this aspect of ours various different sports that we play, and assess them all on the scale of aggression involved in them. We also need to start a debate on if aggression is a necessary part of human survival on earth or not. And if it is, are we doomed to keep sobbing under the dark shadow of abusive relationships in our man woman interactions in our culture? What is domestic violence if not the result of abusive relationships between the two genders? The causes of domestic violence undoubtedly spring out of aggressive relationships alone. All domestic violence signs are indicating toward this direction only. We need to give it a serious thought!TRANSCRIPT
Are Abusive Relationships Linked to Playing Aggressive Sports Too?
Whenever you get used to aggression in one sphere of life, it does cast its shadows on the other spheres of life too.
Here is a news item published on March 28, 2014…
Posted: Friday, 28 March 2014 2:19PM Some High School Sports Linked to Abusive Relationships
Thomas Northcut/Thinkstock(PITTSBURGH) — Participating in high school sports is supposed to build character but it may be having just the opposite effect when teenage boys play football and basketball. A new National Violence Against Women Survey finds that a hyper-masculine attitude associated with these particular sports can make boys more abusive toward their girlfriends as compared to their male counterparts who play baseball, run track, swim or wrestle. The researchers had approximately 1,650 California boys in grades 9-12 answers questions about what sports they played, whether they were in relationships that lasted at least a week and if they had physically, verbally, or sexually abused a partner over the past three months… More at: kmbz.com
Football is the biggest culprit among them all!
What do we infer from this?
Do we need re-designing our sports culture?
But How?
we have been playing these masculine sports
for hundreds if not thousands of year!
How can we do away with our legacy all of a sudden?
Certainly we can’t,
and we won’t.
But we at least can start a discussion!
We also need to start a debate if aggression is a necessary part of
human survival on earth or not.
And if it is, are we doomed to keep sobbing under the dark shadow of abusive relationships in our man woman interactions in our culture?
What is domestic violence if not the result of abusive
relationships between the two genders?
We need to give it a serious thought!
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