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<blockquote data-quote="MaxKaladin" data-source="post: 2577513" data-attributes="member: 1196"><p>Yep. This is a perfect example of what I hate about sports, too. I've generally found that those of us who don't like sports generally just keep it to ourselves. Sports fans don't like to return that courtesy. The moment they get wind of someone saying they hate sports, they immediately leap to the defense. We get blessed with all sorts of talk about how great people think their favorite sports are to wistful reflection on the cameraderie of watching a game with friends to comments about how "strange" they find someone who doesn't like sports is. Even though sports fans are free to have as many sports threads as they want, many of them evidently believe this thread here must be subverted to sports and some even take some sort of delight in hijacking it and rubbing salt in the wound by pointing out how much in the minority the original poster is. Believe me, we know we're a minority -- we're seldom allowed to forget it. The fact that a few of us in our minority grousing in our metaphorical corner cannot be tolerated is very much the sort of thing I dislike about sports. </p><p></p><p>Now, someone is preparing to point out that this has nothing to do with the sports themselves and they're right. An epiphany I had some time back is that I don't hate the sports themselves. I hate the sports culture that surrounds them. I hate the fact that so many fans cannot seem to understand or tolerate the idea that some of us just don't care about their games. I hate the way so many sports fans feel the need to push and poke at us for our lack of interest. I hate the way some sports fans think we must be drowned out and silenced should we ever dare to voice any dislike of sports. I hate the way some sports fans seem to feel the need to assimilate us like they are part of some sort of borg collective. The thing is that I don't hate sports. I simply don't care about them one way or the other. I think that indifference infuriates some sports fans.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MaxKaladin, post: 2577513, member: 1196"] Yep. This is a perfect example of what I hate about sports, too. I've generally found that those of us who don't like sports generally just keep it to ourselves. Sports fans don't like to return that courtesy. The moment they get wind of someone saying they hate sports, they immediately leap to the defense. We get blessed with all sorts of talk about how great people think their favorite sports are to wistful reflection on the cameraderie of watching a game with friends to comments about how "strange" they find someone who doesn't like sports is. Even though sports fans are free to have as many sports threads as they want, many of them evidently believe this thread here must be subverted to sports and some even take some sort of delight in hijacking it and rubbing salt in the wound by pointing out how much in the minority the original poster is. Believe me, we know we're a minority -- we're seldom allowed to forget it. The fact that a few of us in our minority grousing in our metaphorical corner cannot be tolerated is very much the sort of thing I dislike about sports. Now, someone is preparing to point out that this has nothing to do with the sports themselves and they're right. An epiphany I had some time back is that I don't hate the sports themselves. I hate the sports culture that surrounds them. I hate the fact that so many fans cannot seem to understand or tolerate the idea that some of us just don't care about their games. I hate the way so many sports fans feel the need to push and poke at us for our lack of interest. I hate the way some sports fans think we must be drowned out and silenced should we ever dare to voice any dislike of sports. I hate the way some sports fans seem to feel the need to assimilate us like they are part of some sort of borg collective. The thing is that I don't hate sports. I simply don't care about them one way or the other. I think that indifference infuriates some sports fans. [/QUOTE]
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