Blog Post #3

The Male Myth

I think sports are good for men because it will bring benefits to them. It helps men form strong muscle and build health body shape, also men can learn how to cooperate with other people in the team work. Even more, they can learn leadership skills which make them more responsible. In the article “The Male Myth” by Paul Theroux, he says “high-school basketball teaches you how to be poor loser”, and he also mentions men as “social misfits, moral degenerates, sadists, latent rapists and just plain louts”, even more negative thoughts, he says that “high-school sport is far worse than marijuana.”(Theroux 102). For what he thinks sports bring to men, I disagree with him. Actually, if you want to get in the sport team, you should be good enough to meet the requirements that school sets up. In other words, you have to a good student. For example, you not only need to maintain a good grade, but also you have to master good sport kills. If you miss either of them, of course, you don`t have other chances to get in. On the other hand, it makes me think of the fable of The Fox and the Grapes. It tells us that the fox is unable to get the grape, when he leaves with saying that the grapes are not ripe yet. When I think about these bad words that he wrote, it reminds me of the author himself as a man. I was wondering that he may have bad experiences with sports which causes him reject the sport. By doing this, it may comfort himself.