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It's fine to call him out for calling you and people like you boorish rubes. You can attack him on the basis of his making generalizations about you. But why the need to attack him personally, asking whether he was picked last for dodgeball and so forth? That to me seems no different than what the OP is guilty of. He called you a boorish rube for liking sports so you retaliate by saying he was probably a loser in high school.
I honestly don't see or understand what is so exciting about sports. People get all worked up and excited, cheer on for their team, and paint their bodies, etc. Some people treat it like a religion, especially football. They get mad and cry if their teams loses.
Everybody needs an outlet after a week's worth of hard work and depressing current events. Some people find it by watching sports. And I'd rather deal with somebody who paints his face and gets upset when his favorite sports team loses than somebody who uses illegal drugs, abuses alcohol, or engages in deviant sexual behavior as their methods of escape.
It's fine to call him out for calling you and people like you boorish rubes. You can attack him on the basis of his making generalizations about you. But why the need to attack him personally, asking whether he was picked last for dodgeball and so forth? That to me seems no different than what the OP is guilty of. He called you a boorish rube for liking sports so you retaliate by saying he was probably a loser in high school.
That's his fault for putting on tights instead of a jersey
It's fine to call him out for calling you and people like you boorish rubes. You can attack him on the basis of his making generalizations about you. But why the need to attack him personally, asking whether he was picked last for dodgeball and so forth? That to me seems no different than what the OP is guilty of. He called you a boorish rube for liking sports so you retaliate by saying he was probably a loser in high school.
It's those annoying people who yammer on and on about sports and dominate conversations with sports jargon to alienate you and to gain positive attention.
So you feel left out and you're envious of people who get more attention than you do. You hate taking orders from or being corrected by these types, too. If you changed jobs, it could just be more of the same. What to do?
When you're in one of these uncomfortable situations at work, or at a social event, why not just smile and nod your head? It might make someone feel better about themselves because, after all, they've just impressed you with their superior knowledge.
I know - it's dishonest. But, unless you do a crash study of sports stats going back to the fifties, you'll never be able to compete (sorry, I know how you hate that word) with these sports fans.
You can always be the center of attention when you're socializing with others who possess tastes similar to yours. And, I promise to nod my head and smile as you expound upon the virtues of this artist or that composer, at least until the commercial is over and the game resumes.
Re-reading your post it does sound like you have a bias against sports. You liken an interest in sports to watching an entertaining film as if interest and knowledge of film is more legitimate than interest and knowledge of sports.
To call a sports nut a rube is no more accurate that calling a film buff a snob.
Yeah, you pretty much nailed it.
Aside from watching my favorite team, the Auburn Tigers, I really don't watch a lot of sports. At the same time, as long as you're not punching the wall or otherwise obnoxious about it, then why not enjoy yourself, right?
The OP is basically choosing to crap on other people's passions, and then couching himself as some kind of intellectual superior. It's a fairly transparent bit of insecurity on his part. I'm sure if someone reacted to opera or music with similar fashion, he would probably think it was wonderful.
If someone is dominating the conversation about opera or fashion and continued to act weird and fanatical about it then I would not enjoy that person's company either. I think that is plain as day.
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I'm sure if someone reacted to opera or music with similar fashion, he would probably think it was wonderful.
I wasn't referring to you specifically. I meant you in general, as in the sports fans who look down on the people who think sports are silly and feel the need to attack the OP for being one of them. Notice how one person just made a comment about the OP putting on tights instead of a jersey, as if to say he's less of a man because he's into art instead of sports. I've noticed a lot of sports fans are like this. They see someone who's into art, museums, opera, etc. as being some kind of elitist. But isn't that just as bad? You (meaning you in general) don't like someone mocking your love of sports and yet you mock their interest in art. Seems they're both guilty of judging the other for liking something they don't care for.
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with their superior knowledge.
