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Another conservative losing another argument and reduced to whining.
"Losing an argument"??? :rofl
Another conservative losing another argument and reduced to whining.
You sedem have it backwards. One of the causes could very well be the divorce rate and single-mom households, which is why children get coddled and pampered, and not taught the realities of life, and how to deal with the normal stress of living.
Kids need stability which can be supplied with two differing parental types. The mother figure to nurture and meet specific needs, and a father figure to teach the child how to deal with life as it is, and not how the child wishes it to be.
I can't believe you're really making an argument that mothers can't be as strict (if not more so) disciplinarians as fathers.
Or, you know, we can stop clinging to tired old tropes about how fathers are all stern and mothers weak and nurturing, and instead accept that people can be multifaceted and act in both capacities - as nurturing and stern, alternating the approach where required.
Mike Rice's firing has nothing to do with wussification and everything to do with abuse of power. There's a fine line between being tough on your players and being an abusive egomaniac. Eric Bolling is talking out of his ass.
Phil Jackson, Pat Riley, Gregg Popovich didn't have to throw basketballs and verbally abuse their players to become winners and build their players into becoming winners.
I'm not saying "wussification" isn't happening, but this isn't an example of it.
The funny thing is that you think I did. See that tiny little darkened word up there? I'll let you hire an English tutor to teach you the difference between "a" and "the" preceding a noun.
If treating each other with respect is wussification than I am all for it.
One of the issues with your argument is your naivety with respect to the study of statistics.
Saying that mothers can be as stern as fathers is focusing on the range of data and ignoring important characteristics such as the mean and median.
Have you considered that sometimes a coach needs to keep the players' egos in check?
That...That's your defense?
You finally admit that you indeed made a connection between political correctness, divorce rates, fatness, etc., but add that you only termed this a major cause of these unfortunate maladies, not the only (or primary) cause?
Have you simply given up?
Also, this has done nothing to refute my point that thinking political correctness a cause of divorce, out-of-wedlock children, and fatness is ridiculous in and of itself. It's a bold claim with no verifiable evidence to back it up, the type of non-intellectual musing certain conservatives seem to base their entire political philosophy on.
Here's a question for the left.
I'll wait for some of your responses before I explain how this relates to many Americans being wussies.
For those who make excuses as to why the ghetto kids get crappy grades,
how about you try and explain why Dr. Carson and I were able to go from the crappy areas of Detroit and Baltimore, respectively, to respected positions requiring more than 8 years of higher education? Heck, we both even had single mothers.
This should be entertaining...
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I hadn't had time to read anything more than the headlines regarding the Rutgers coach and his firing. My initial reaction was...gosh...coaches verbally abusive? SHOCKING! :lamo Then I saw the video. Never mind. There isn't really all that fine a line between aggressive and even verbally abusive coaching and straight up abuse. That coach didn't tiptoe across the line...he stomped across it. The first image I saw was him kicking one of his players in the ass. In that moment I said...oh...never mind. Dood should be toast, no questions asked.I think most children who grew in a single parent household would disagree with that. I believe the opposite - kids who grow up in a mother-only household tend to have to fend for themselves sooner than most.
So, like I said before, you choose to be a victim.
Have you wondered why it was public reaction to video and not the players complaining to superintendents that decided when he got fired? I expect a player on that team who has a problem with it to speak up, given that they're adults. If the players don't mind it then who cares what others think?
I agree with Bolling's point yesterday about Americans becoming wussies and political correctness being a major source.
There's the sense of entitlement since we don't let kid's experience failure nowadays. That includes things from not letting kids fail at school when their results are insufficient to handing out participation trophies. Some schools are even banning sporting activities to prevent anyone from feeling like a loser.
We surrender to just about any complaint, rather that seeing if any of the responsibility falls on the complainant. For example, schools are removing a cross or picture of Jesus if one or two people complain, even if a hundred want it there. Someone needs to speak up and tell them to ignore it if they don't like it.
You might say "the older generation always says the younger is worse." However, the upward trends for the numbers in divorce, kids born out of wedlock, government handouts, obesity, average age people live with parents until, etc. speak for themselves.
What will it take to get society to acknowledge these mistakes and fix them? Feel free to add more.
Eric Bolling: Mike Rice Firing Symbol Of 'The Wussification Of American Men' (VIDEO)
The right constantly whines about PC yet complains bitterly about speech that is offensive to Christians. Hypocrits.
I'd say that chances are good he wasnt fired because the school feared his behavior but because the school feared what would happen if they didn't fire him.
Here's a question for the left. I'll wait for some of your responses before I explain how this relates to many Americans being wussies.
For those who make excuses as to why the ghetto kids get crappy grades, how about you try and explain why Dr. Carson and I were able to go from the crappy areas of Detroit and Baltimore, respectively, to respected positions requiring more than 8 years of higher education? Heck, we both even had single mothers.
This should be entertaining...
Didn't you know you are not allowed to know anything for yourself? Everything has to be the result of a survey or a study regardless of your personal experience. I ma very wooried for my son growing up in a world like this. He has no reason to think for himself.ZZZZZZZ. Yeah, we've only been conveying tone in our written communications since there were written communications. But I'm sure you can come up with a number of studies that show we can't. Hilarious.
I don't think you understood what he posted. Yes things happen but it how the person deals with it that is important. For example 2 kids that come from an abusive home handle things differently between themselvs. One might get depressed and the other might get angry. Again it is not as important what happens tan how that person handles it.Oh for ****'s sake. What happens to you in life and your circumstances greatly influence "how you feel about and react to" events and circumstances. So yes, the things that happen to you in life and the circumstances you are dealt are just as if not more important than how one reacts to them.
I am honestly so sick of this uneducated argument that comes almost exclusively from conservatives. It's as if you guys think people's choices come out of nowhere - completely untouched by their experiences and circumstances.
The left is obsessed with "hypocrisy" - it's as if cognitive development froze in adolescence.
Nonetheless, some know a good basketball program when they see it. Believing that you'd get more out of a Duke team by screaming at it is like believing you'd get more flavor out of a fine filet mignon by covering it with Heinz 57.
The left is obsessed with "hypocrisy" - it's as if cognitive development froze in adolescence.
Nonetheless, some know a good basketball program when they see it. Believing that you'd get more out of a Duke team by screaming at it is like believing you'd get more flavor out of a fine filet mignon by covering it with Heinz 57.
The left is obsessed with "hypocrisy" - it's as if cognitive development froze in adolescence.
Nonetheless, some know a good basketball program when they see it. Believing that you'd get more out of a Duke team by screaming at it is like believing you'd get more flavor out of a fine filet mignon by covering it with Heinz 57.
So you're an apologist for hypocrisy??:shock: I mean is there something to defend in that?? Actually I think the right is obsessed with it. They practice it to the point of making it an art form and then fools like your actually try to defend it. The point regarding Duke is that Coach K doesn't appear to need fits of rage to coach young men. His program obviously produces better results that maybe the coaches at Rutgers could learn from.
So you're an apologist for hypocrisy??:shock: I mean is there something to defend in that?? Actually I think the right is obsessed with it. They practice it to the point of making it an art form and then fools like yourself actually try to defend it. The point regarding Duke is that Coach K doesn't appear to need fits of rage to coach young men. His program obviously produces better results that maybe the coaches at Rutgers could learn from.
So you're an apologist for hypocrisy??:shock: I mean is there something to defend in that?? Actually I think the right is obsessed with it. They practice it to the point of making it an art form and then fools like yourself actually try to defend it. The point regarding Duke is that Coach K doesn't appear to need fits of rage to coach young men. His program obviously produces better results that maybe the coaches at Rutgers could learn from.