Books R Fun

[rkt]

from bike4fish

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3.Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal...along with these instructions.

and, because i couldn't tell if they meant xxiii or 23, i included both, suckers.

xxiii: Women in erstwhile men's sports are coming to be seen not only as "normal," but as a source of pride.

23: The founding of the Boy Scouts in 1910 was an American effort to "reverse the feared decline in manliness" = a decline the U.S. comissioner of education explained with a fine appreciation of the centrality to masculinity of physical violence: "The boy in America is not being brought up to punch another boy's head, or to stand having his own punched in a healthy and proper manner. . ."

i'm conisidering the second to be all one sentence. nyah.

dowling, colette, the frailty myth: women approaching physical equality. New York: Random House, 2000.

Comments

[brienf.livejournal.com]

I lose sleep over whether our boys are punching each other's heads, too.

:)

[rkt.livejournal.com]

i just want them to stand it in a healthy and proper manner. . .