A few years ago I worked for a major
grocery chain store as basically a handy man. I did everything and anything
they wanted but spent the majority of time unloading and separating grocery
truck deliveries. One day I was on the back dock, business as usual, and one of
my coworkers asks me if I caught a certain baseball game on TV the previous
night. I tell him no and that I actually don’t follow any sports. So he makes a
wise-crack to another coworker that I’m never going to be accepted as a man by
other men in the workforce because I don’t follow sports. Side note: the guy
was completely serious. So I come back with, why should I be excluded as a man
if I don’t watch sports? I carry all the necessary biology to be considered a
human male, but since I don’t pay any attention to a male dominated field then
I’m classified as sub-male?
I’m not athletic
by any means. From childhood through high school I’ve played baseball,
basketball, football, and ran track and cross country. Never excelled and to
put it bluntly, I was actually quite terrible at all sports. Inevitably this
lack of athletic ability made me less interested. Sure I enjoy watching a ball
game from time to time, but I don’t care to know who is playing or what the
spread is.
By my coworker’s
standards as what makes a man male is, in part, that he religiously follows
sports to no viable end. Thank you media for making sports just as important as
the third world’s struggle for survival.
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