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Mark & Steven Bornfeld
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Hunter wrote:
> Not enough, but:
>
> Bill, I question how truly worthwhile your contributions to youth
> cycling are, when you are clearly willing to publicly humiliate the
> kids taking part. Do you mock them openly in the parking lot at the
> races? Taunt them? They're kids, Bill.
>
> In the context of this thread, your use of your own children on a
> podium was not mere parental pride, but an attempt to demonstrate your
> own superiority as a cycling parent, because, thank god, your kids
> AREN'T FAT, and they're WINNERS. That's not being involved in youth
> cycling to give kids great opportunities to learn how to compete, to
> take some reasonable knocks, to improve themselves, and to have fun.
> Rather, it's being a typically self-obsessed, sports-parent jerk living
> vicariously through his own kids, at the expense of other kids if
> necessary. But it doesn't matter, because those kids are fat. Or
> slow. Or whatever.
>
> I'm not arguing that you don't have a right to be proud of your kids,
> or other kids who excel, or that you shouldn't share that pride within
> reason. However, when you taunt and mock children, and use your own
> kids as tools of that process--that sucks.
>
> If you're worried that the fat kids aren't getting enough taunting, you
> needn't. That's what other kids are for.
>
Boy, are you barking up the wrong tree!
Steve
--
Mark & Steven Bornfeld DDS
http://www.dentaltwins.com
Brooklyn, NY
718-258-5001
> Not enough, but:
>
> Bill, I question how truly worthwhile your contributions to youth
> cycling are, when you are clearly willing to publicly humiliate the
> kids taking part. Do you mock them openly in the parking lot at the
> races? Taunt them? They're kids, Bill.
>
> In the context of this thread, your use of your own children on a
> podium was not mere parental pride, but an attempt to demonstrate your
> own superiority as a cycling parent, because, thank god, your kids
> AREN'T FAT, and they're WINNERS. That's not being involved in youth
> cycling to give kids great opportunities to learn how to compete, to
> take some reasonable knocks, to improve themselves, and to have fun.
> Rather, it's being a typically self-obsessed, sports-parent jerk living
> vicariously through his own kids, at the expense of other kids if
> necessary. But it doesn't matter, because those kids are fat. Or
> slow. Or whatever.
>
> I'm not arguing that you don't have a right to be proud of your kids,
> or other kids who excel, or that you shouldn't share that pride within
> reason. However, when you taunt and mock children, and use your own
> kids as tools of that process--that sucks.
>
> If you're worried that the fat kids aren't getting enough taunting, you
> needn't. That's what other kids are for.
>
Boy, are you barking up the wrong tree!
Steve
--
Mark & Steven Bornfeld DDS
http://www.dentaltwins.com
Brooklyn, NY
718-258-5001