Truly Perplexing: Tales from the bowels of NYU Coles
have you ever wondered at people's capacity to enjoy showering and luxuriously lotioning up in steamy, disgusting locker rooms? i sure have. it's happening every time i go to Coles, NYU's wonderful, dumpy sports center at Bleecker and Mercer. my general rule about the locker rooms is get in and get out as quickly as possible, but some women enjoy hanging out in there butt ass nekkid for long periods of time, showering (barefoot!), shaving, lotioning, doing the entire bathroom routine on wooden benches shoved between 10 other sweaty/dirty/wet girls/ladies/very mature women. truly perplexing.
also perplexing: the co-ed volleyball and basketball teams. at first this intermingling of the sexes was heartwarming, but then i noticed that the girls get almost zero play time with the balls (yes, balls in both senses of the word), and when they do, the guys let them score without trying to stop them. granted, the guys outnumbered the girls at about an 80%-20% ratio, but it was depressing, not least because the girls weren't as good as the guys. part of it seemed to be that the guys were more willing to be aggressive with their bodies in a way that the girls weren't, and that isn't to say that girls can't be aggressive: in all-girl games, i have seen some dirty, dirty shoving. but it's different when the teams are co-ed. maybe neither gender feels comfortable pushing the other in that way. it's ironic that as much as people were trying to break out of gender roles by playing sports together, those roles came to the surface in a more painful and embarrassing way (at least to me, watching) than they would have if they were separate.
i hand it to those girls for trying, though, because what they were doing -- essentially running back and forth across the court over and over and over -- didn't look too fun, and i imagine (maybe wrongly) that the guys are annoyed about having them on the team. i mean, it adds a dimension to the game that isn't about the game, and that isn't fun for anyone, girls included. so the question is are the only teams available co-ed ones, or do these girls and guys specifically choose to integrate? perplexing.
also perplexing: the co-ed volleyball and basketball teams. at first this intermingling of the sexes was heartwarming, but then i noticed that the girls get almost zero play time with the balls (yes, balls in both senses of the word), and when they do, the guys let them score without trying to stop them. granted, the guys outnumbered the girls at about an 80%-20% ratio, but it was depressing, not least because the girls weren't as good as the guys. part of it seemed to be that the guys were more willing to be aggressive with their bodies in a way that the girls weren't, and that isn't to say that girls can't be aggressive: in all-girl games, i have seen some dirty, dirty shoving. but it's different when the teams are co-ed. maybe neither gender feels comfortable pushing the other in that way. it's ironic that as much as people were trying to break out of gender roles by playing sports together, those roles came to the surface in a more painful and embarrassing way (at least to me, watching) than they would have if they were separate.
i hand it to those girls for trying, though, because what they were doing -- essentially running back and forth across the court over and over and over -- didn't look too fun, and i imagine (maybe wrongly) that the guys are annoyed about having them on the team. i mean, it adds a dimension to the game that isn't about the game, and that isn't fun for anyone, girls included. so the question is are the only teams available co-ed ones, or do these girls and guys specifically choose to integrate? perplexing.
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