09-26-2015, 09:25 AM
Quote:So what do little kids play at recess?
A rousing game of gender neutral, race neutral, non religious, gluten free, wind powered hand wringing is acceptable.
Quote:So what do little kids play at recess?
Quote:I am not gay. A family member of mine is, however, and I was the subject of "smear the queer" every day of my sixth grade year, amongst other indignities. It was part of a systematic, unprovoked bullying that nearly killed me. Banning tag is ridiculous, but playing smear the queer and not seeing anything wrong with it basically makes anyone playing it a piece of [BAD WORD REMOVED].The version you played does not sound like the one I played as a kid. We used a football and whoever had it would scramble around with it trying to avoid getting creamed. No bullying, no singling anyone out just rough and tumble play that I have fond memories of playing as a child. The name however could certainly stand to be changed.
Quote:I imagine "Tag" was banned because it had become "Hit" at that school. My junior high banned a lunchtime game for similar, appropriate reasons.Yeah, we played a more no holds barred version of tag that typically included tripping, clotheslines and punching. It was fun, but man did it hurt when the right person was "it" and lined up a brutal hit on you.
Quote:The version you played does not sound like the one I played as a kid. We used a football and whoever had it would scramble around with it trying to avoid getting creamed. No bullying, no singling anyone out just rough and tumble play that I have fond memories of playing as a child. The name however could certainly stand to be changed.We played that too, but it was called "tackleoco" as I recall. Our principal loved it so much when we did that that we wound up trying to explain to him, as only this graders can, that we weren't playing tackle football, therefore it was ok.
Quote:The version you played does not sound like the one I played as a kid. We used a football and whoever had it would scramble around with it trying to avoid getting creamed. No bullying, no singling anyone out just rough and tumble play that I have fond memories of playing as a child. The name however could certainly stand to be changed.
Quote:When I played this game before we moved to Florida it was called Tackloco, and it was fun. The boys in my new Florida neighborhood called it Smear the Queer, and it was much different. Usually the smaller or unpopular boys were fed the ball and invariable ended up getting, well, smeared. It was a bullying tactic and very ugly.We played Tackle-Loco as well...until one of the kids broke a collar bone on a particularly nasty hit.
My guess is anyone being ok with this game were the bullies, not the bullied.
Quote:The version you played does not sound like the one I played as a kid. We used a football and whoever had it would scramble around with it trying to avoid getting creamed. No bullying, no singling anyone out just rough and tumble play that I have fond memories of playing as a child. The name however could certainly stand to be changed.
Quote:I doubt you can play smear the queer anywhere nowadays. The LGBT fanatics would come out of the wordworks.
Quote:I'm afraid to google that.
Quote:"Smear the queer" or "LGBT fanatics"?
Quote:So what should the game be named? Apparently "smear the queer" is not a PC name for the game. "Tackle-Loco" is not PC either as "loco" is a term in Spanish for "crazy" or even "[BLEEP]".
I played the game as a youngster, and yes it hurt at times. Yes I got bumps and bruises, but you know what? I played the game on my own free will. I was a smaller kid and didn't feel that I was "fed the ball" just so the bigger kids could "bully" me. As of matter of fact, I always went for the ball because I was smaller, shiftier and faster than many of the other kids.
To say that playing this game was a "bullying tactic" is not very accurate.
Quote:So what should the game be named? Apparently "smear the queer" is not a PC name for the game. "Tackle-Loco" is not PC either as "loco" is a term in Spanish for "crazy" or even "[BLEEP]".Care to read my post again and tell me how screaming out, "SMEAR THE [BAD WORD REMOVED] QUEER!" as you body-slam someone to the ground with the intent to injure them is not a bullying tactic?
I played the game as a youngster, and yes it hurt at times. Yes I got bumps and bruises, but you know what? I played the game on my own free will. I was a smaller kid and didn't feel that I was "fed the ball" just so the bigger kids could "bully" me. As of matter of fact, I always went for the ball because I was smaller, shiftier and faster than many of the other kids.
To say that playing this game was a "bullying tactic" is not very accurate.
Quote:Care to read my post again and tell me how screaming out, "SMEAR THE [BAD WORD REMOVED] QUEER!" as you body-slam someone to the ground with the intent to injure them is not a bullying tactic?
Quote:"With the intent to injure them"? Where did you grow up?I grew up in Jacksonville and went to a private school, one of the best out there, that catered to a wealthy white demographic. The "neighborhood" had nothing to do with it. It was straight up bullying. Single someone out as the "queer" then kick the [BLEEP] out of them.
The idea behind "smear the queer" is to resemble a fumble situation in tackle football. You tackle the guy and the kids pile on, but that's it. Nobody had an intent to injure in the several times I've played the game. We always came away having fun, and typically everyone involved gets the ball at some point. It was never meant to pick on and injure a particular kid. I presume you were in the kind of neighborhood where kids playing "tag" would punch the kid who became "it."
Quote:Yeah, we played a more no holds barred version of tag that typically included tripping, clotheslines and punching. It was fun, but man did it hurt when the right person was "it" and lined up a brutal hit on you.
Quote:I hadn't thought about this in decades....Though occasionally painful and bloody, there was nothing like a good game of British Bulldog. Fun times...