blog # 3

 In Paul Theroux's "The Male mith" theroux speaks about sports and how bad they are. He goes on to say they make you into "sore losers","latent rapists", "moral degenerates", "social misfits", and he goes on to suggest coaches and students are dumb saying "there is no book hater like a little league coach". his point is not only are sports uneccessary but bad, all they teach is negative things like the many examples Theroux gave. I do not agree with Theroux i believe he is overly anti masculine. Theroux says sports are no good and  these horrible things come out of it when any boy or girl, athlete or scholar can be a sore loser or a rapist. Sports contribute to many good things, they keep you in shape, they help develope leadership skills,they help you understand team work and the importance of working together, and how to fallow rules. Also people who play sports on teams ussually are intelligent that is why they are refered to as a student athlete instead of a athlete student. People who get a athletic scholarship must have a cirtain grade to receive it and must maintain it while in school. Over all i do not agree with theroux i feel he may not have lived up to these masculine traits and he has a hate fore masculine standards. His rape reference is also ignorant in my opinion because rape is not only limited to the male gender as there are also many female offenders.