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09/09/09(Wed)22:35 No.37602638  >From
small town rivalries to Little League Championships, from cheerleaders
and their pom poms to young firm men filling out new crisp football
uniforms, a pair of bulging muscles below soccer shorts, the pep
rallies, the bleachers packed with parents and victory pizza parties,
in every way teenage jock culture is the epitome of wholesomeness.
Yeah, right
>There
comes a time in every youngster’s life when they must decide to follow
the jock world, to work hard on their bodies and skills, or to chose
another path. Often, it’s the freshman year of high school when social
pressures are high and the girls start to look awfully pretty. Choosing
to be a jock insures a boy popularity, a fantastic group of friends,
the love of parents and eventually success with the female persuasion.
>This
implies that you have two choices when you get to high school: Become a
jock or you’re nothing. Not everyone is into sports, some students want
to focus on schooling.
>When
video gaming first became popular, experts warned of the likelihood of
increased amounts of obesity, apathy, suicide, school violence,
Satanism, masturbation, homosexuality and unemployment.
Fat lie.
>Now
video gaming is developing into a high school “culture” itself, as more
and more children chose this pathetic and harmful lifestyle instead of
joining a fun sports team. It is a world of couch potatoes and basement
dwellers. Mentally, they have not developed past the 12-year old stage.
Many
high schoolers do own video game consoles. When I was at high school, I
did own a PS2, and Dreamcast, and a Xbox. Did I had suicidal thoughts,
became gay, became apathic? No I became more active, and video games
gave me a reason to live during the three years of hell I have endured
for three years (7th-9th grade). Apparently this author does not know
that there are video games of the sport genre. |
