How geeks get their kicks
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CNN reports that bay area techies are now getting their kicks the old-fashioned way. By having someone give it to them. Turns out software engineers are flocking in droves to underground fight clubs where they pummel each other with… frying pans. Apparently, baseball bats and knuckle-dusters are passe. Frying pans are the latest in urban assault gear. I wonder if they use cast-iron or teflon.
What struck me most was the following quote:
Men involved in fight clubs often carry bottled-up violent impulses learned in childhood from video games, cartoons and movies, said Michael Messner, a University of Southern California sociology and gender studies professor.
Now how on earth did he make that association between fight clubs and violent impulses? Sure beats me.
I still prefer the kind of fight where the other adult is not consenting.
This is not surprising. Most geeks are just getting out the man child in them.
As long as my medical insurance/taxes don’t pay their bills they can kick their butt as much as they like. The other sociologist comment I liked is:
Now I understand how men went from their nasty, brutish and short warrior lives to the genteel chai latte drinking metrosexual. It was the schools.
Or perhaps there’s more to it than that.
http://www.calisafe.org/_disc1/3000002e.htm
I will not understand certain things…..this is one among them. Why in the hell would anyone want to tear up their body? but then, why would people have body piercings, tatoos or anything else that violates their body?
What do you tell everyone when you get to work the day after the frying pan ritual?…I guess it helps if you work with a whole bunch of blokes who are in a fightclub.