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fandomsecrets2015-04-30 06:54 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2015-04-30 06:54 pm
[ SECRET POST #3039 ]
⌈ Secret Post #3039 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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[Ernest Hemingway (and his cat)]
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Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 018 secrets from Secret Submission Post #434.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
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Re: NFL Draft
Made a conscious decision to try to stop following football, and the draft is one of the things that used to interest me the most about it, so I've been pretty much avoiding it.
Re: NFL Draft
(I don't much care for football, so I'm not asking out of any kind of defensive position lol geddit, defense)
Re: NFL Draft
Umm, it's a little hard to say. But basically, I found myself getting less and less comfortable with various elements of the sport, and I found myself getting less and less comfortable with the way it exists in the media and in sports fandom and the place it has in our culture, and so I stopped following it.
In terms of the sport itself, there's a lot that I started to find troublesome about it - the violence and the endemic nature of concussions most obviously, and also things like the frequent mental health problems former players and the way that the league would deal with players' legal problems, particularly in terms of violence against women (the Ray Rice thing happened after I'd started to move away from the league, but it definitely didn't help). It just seemed more and more like this was just a sport and a league that was absolutely brutal to its players. And also run incompetently and corruptly. And it just bothered me.
And then a lot of things around the league also bothered me. Its massiveness and the way that it tries to take over everything, first off - I just don't like the insistence that THIS IS THE BIGGEST THING EVER YOU MUST FOLLOW IT. The way that the coverage dwells on its massive size, the all-consuming nature of following football when it's on, the way that it tries to spread itself throughout the year, the humorlessness of a lot of the coverage and the self-seriousness that the league has - it's almost a sort of sports imperialism, and it's a worship of the bigness of the league for the sake of the bigness of the league, and I don't like those things. It encourages an obsessiveness with it and it wants you to take it so, so deathly seriously. It's so humorless.
And then also the way that it (I think more than any other sport except maybe hockey) ties itself up in all these weird-ass ideas about violence and masculinity just started to seem really toxic, and seemed to lead to all sorts of bizarre defenses of the flaws of the league and things like the problems with violence. It's just unpleasant.
I think the turning point was the team that I root for went on a deep run in the playoffs, and I kind of looked around at some point and just thought, "Man, I really am not enjoying this at all." And eventually I just decided it would be better not to pay attention to it.
Re: NFL Draft
I've long been vaguely uneasy with football's version of hypermasculinity - or, well, less "uneasy" since I just wasn't invested in it at all myself, and more that I just found it really distasteful and off-putting. But then I tend to find any kind of hypermasculinity off-putting, honestly.
I'm definitely not okay with how the league has handled issues of their players being violent, from what little I know of it.