MoogleViper Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 It was hardly apparent in my school. In fact some of the teachers encouraged the PE pupils to do netball as their sport as it was easier to get a good grade in. Most of the lasses could never be bothered to do PE anyway.
Coolness Bears Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 Yep there is seperate games for Girls and boys in my school.
Letty Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 Most of the lasses could never be bothered to do PE anyway. As I neared the end of my highschool, I wasn't allowed to do PE any more - my PE teacher said I should just go study instead as I obviously wasn't interested. T_T
Dante Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 Yes they still have sexism, my high school seperated girls into netball and guys into football. Did you swap with the guys doing the sports which was classed as boys sports? It was hardly apparent in my school. In fact some of the teachers encouraged the PE pupils to do netball as their sport as it was easier to get a good grade in. Most of the lasses could never be bothered to do PE anyway. As I neared the end of my highschool, I wasn't allowed to do PE any more - my PE teacher said I should just go study instead as I obviously wasn't interested. T_T Why do girls hate doing sports?
Coolness Bears Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 Hey it's not just Girls! :p By the time you hit the Sixth Form it gets very dull and tedious when you are no good at sports... I would much rather do work. Luckily I only have weights on a thursday now!
Daft Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 Why do girls hate doing sports? That's a bit of a sweeping generalisation from some anecdotal evidence.
Gizmo Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 In my school they set the rule as you do neither "girls" nor "boys" sports in PE. So no Football or Dancing. Our sports as I remember them were: Swimming, Gymnastics, Basketball, Hockey, Volleyball, Atheletics. I don't understand what makes girls ok to play Hockey but not Football, but for soem reason people simply refuse to play so the school just avoids the conflict.
Raining_again Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 Our PE was split up, girls did hockey and netball, guys did footie and rugby. I hattteeed PE. Being 60% covered in a skin condition does get a fair few stares/laughs/whispers/taunts in the changing room. Having arthritis, and no depth perception (I was smacked in the face more time than I could count) just made me utterly fail at any kind of sport. =(
Raining_again Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 offtopic: ROFL at the text under Gizmo's sig Yes I did just notice that ¬_¬ It was an honest typo, swears.
Paj! Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 Most of the girls just decide whether they're going to "games" (what we call it, as if it were the olympics or something...) whenever, but they all do dance anyway, save one, who does Hockey. It seems that being in the last year, people just don't care if you don't show up. I have more pressing work to do in any case *hasn't gone for about 2+ months, but technically HAS been doing work*.
chairdriver Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 I just say that I've forgotten my kit every time I can't be bothered going.
jayseven Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 Once you got to GCSE, PE was split into sections; team games (football, rugby, hockey, basketball, netball), racket sports (tennis, badminton, squash) and... something else that nobody did? Athletics/gymnastics probably. I guess I can't make sweeping statements, but at my school the girls were rubbish at football and rugby (and netball and hockey...), and if you're going to treat PE as if it's not just an extended breaktime (in which boys/girls tended to play amongst their own gendered groups anyway) then you have to 'balance' the class so that there's minimal impact for those good at the subject to be held back by those rubbish at the subject.
Chris the great Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 my PE sucked. football, every single day. on the feilds which were merrily situated on a cliff next to the north sea. imagine, i you will, a cold winter day. regulation PE kit (you HAD to buy the schools) was a thin nylon affair, the shorts always arived tiny, you had to go two sizes up at least to avoid looking like kylie, this is your protection from the cold geordie winter. if it rained, you still had to do it. one one ocasion the entier class boycotted it, and walked back inside, my alsting memory is that my hands stung when we got back inside, and i was drenched from rain. mr peacock wasnt happy. but then he was a tosser and called his son chris, to everyones amusment. we did have an exception to the rules. two guys of a homosexual persuasion did PE with the girls. id say it was outragiously homophobic, but they were happy, so meh.
Dannyboy-the-Dane Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 we did have an exception to the rules. two guys of a homosexual persuasion did PE with the girls. id say it was outragiously homophobic, but they were happy, so meh. You sure they were homosexual?
Guest Jordan Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 The general rule is, a lot of girls just aren't competitive and just don't get into the "spirit" of PE.
Chris the great Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 You sure they were homosexual? well, either that are they are totaly commited to the con, even now, more then 5 years after our last pe lesson.
Slaggis Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 The general rule is, a lot of girls just aren't competitive and just don't get into the "spirit" of PE. That's rubbish, girls are just as competitive as boys, if not in some ways more.
Guest Jordan Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 That's rubbish, girls are just as competitive as boys, if not in some ways more. Thats only my experience. The only competitive female I've ever met is Letty... and she hates when she loses
Gizmo Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 Yes I did just notice that ¬_¬ It was an honest typo, swears. So you say.
Pookiablo Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 Thats only my experience. The only competitive female I've ever met is Letty... and she hates when she loses I think you're making a very big generalisation there...clearly you've met very few girls!
Paj! Posted February 17, 2009 Posted February 17, 2009 Girls are highly competitive, but not in the same areas as boys. [/general rule of life] Take social status/physical appearance as a generalised example.
killthenet Posted February 17, 2009 Posted February 17, 2009 forfun is new greatest member of all times. either that or the Internet has split and forfun's musings on scrubs are slowly seeping out into all non-scrubs threads on the forum.
Guest Jordan Posted February 17, 2009 Posted February 17, 2009 I think you're making a very big generalisation there...clearly you've met very few girls! Yeah, I never went to school or college or just general life with girls...
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