At last!!!

Bit late, but somebody at last standing up for equality and, that supposed British concept, fair play.

Just a personal observation about the whole "competitive sport at school" and how people want there to be winers and losers and people who complain about it are "PC". I was never any good at sports (still not) - and it hurts. At school, certainly for boys, sport is the thing to be good at - if you're not, then forget it. Sports day was a day of dread for me. I hated trying to choose an event because I knew I'd be crap, and probably laughed at, in all of them. One year I took part in the javelin (why I chose this I don't know to this day). My first throw was fairly pathetic. On my second, I slipped and fell over on my backside just as "I threw" the javelin. It landed about 2cm away from the throwing line and I got thoroughly humiliated.

So, why are we so keen to discount the feelings of those who don't enjoy competitive sport, who find it hard and, no matter how much they try, will always end up last and looking fairly ridiculous? Why do we consider it "political correctness gone mad" to create an environment why they aren't laughed at and potentially hurt? Why do we brush their feelings aside, tell them they'll get over it, and look instead to promote those who are good at sports.

And, yes, I hated rugby lessons with a passion. Even netball would have been better...