When baseball was a Game

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There's also a common feeling today among many kids that anyone who submits to any kind of authority is a wimp or a "wuss." If the teacher tells you to sit down, you can't just sit down, you have to contest the order in some way--a wisecrack, an obscenity, a refusal, whatever. And authority is always wrong. The cop tells you to turn the music down, he's a fascist. The umps call the game, they're fags.

And watch a few minutes of a network sitcom or the latest bloody mayhem movie to see where they get the idea that real men use obscene language.

One child at a time will take quite a while. It used to be that parents, church, and school constantly reinforced the same messages, but unfortunately that's long gone.