mo4ch:>Yes, dodgeball is a ‘TOOL OF OPPRESSION’ – but that doesn’t mean we should ban it | Mo4ch News

Forbidding a children’s ball game to combat violence and injustice in society makes no sense, as long as young people will ultimately face survival in a real world that is far more violent and unjust.In one of those stories that was bound to birth a slew of political-correctness-gone-mad responses, Canadian scientists have presented as-yet-unpublished research showing that dodgeball is a form of “legalized bullying” that forms a part of the “hidden curriculum” of oppression in school.To arrive at these findings, the team interviewed students about which gym class activities they disliked the most –where the ball-throwing game came in top place– and then, for reasons that are less than intuitively clear, decided to measure those answers against the Five Faces of Oppression, a model developed by the post-Marxist feminist philosopher Iris Marion Young.Here are the five faces:Exploitation: Using other people’s labors to benefit for oneself.Marginalization: Relegating a group of lower stan…