--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Steve Sundur wrote: > > I was just reading a passage from a book by Ken Carey from many years ago, who said that professional sports are really > quite positive in that they channel much of aggression we > have as humans into a positive direction. That is, into an > organized competition with rules that have been agreed upon. > > That makes sense to me. What do you think?
I think that some sports can even rechannel macho energies and counter the effects of misogyny. Take curling, in which guys get to use a broom for the first time in their lives. :-) Then again, the misogyny quotient is probably balanced out in the sport of Wife Carrying, number 8 in this set: http://news.discovery.com/adventure/extreme-sports/slideshow-extremely-u\ nusual-sports.htm <http://news.discovery.com/adventure/extreme-sports/slideshow-extremely-\ unusual-sports.htm> I'm really not sure how to rank Chess Boxing on this scale. :-)
