Title : "Players accuse the parents of enlisting their kids as combatants against the sport, urging them to launch projectiles (footballs, Nerf darts, etc.) into their courts...."
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"Players accuse the parents of enlisting their kids as combatants against the sport, urging them to launch projectiles (footballs, Nerf darts, etc.) into their courts...."
"[A] petition to stop the pickleball 'takeover' has garnered nearly 3,000 signatures. Its backers – which include the influential Greenwich Village Little League, and at least four other downtown sports leagues – see the West Village as a tipping point: if the city doesn’t step in now, the insatiable pickleball players could monopolize untold open spaces across the city. Lydia Hirt, a local pickleball organizer, described the characterization as 'unfair,' noting the group has worked to share space with other park users. 'Pickleball is a super happy, fun sport, you know, it's called pickleball,' said Hirt, who also runs a pickleball lifestyle newsletter called the 'Love At First Dink.' 'We all just want to enjoy New York’s limited outdoor space.'"From "'Utter takeover': Pickleball invasion prompts turf war in West Village" (Gothamist).
The anti-pickleballists are hardcore. They don't just get signatures for their petition. They garner them.
That phrase: "super happy, fun." What does that remind me of?
No, that's just happy fun ball. So far from a whiffle ball, but let's move on, because it's not super happy fun.
I google the phrase and the top hit is "Super Happy Fun America." Oh, no! It's right wing! Wikipedia says:
The group first became known for organizing the 2019 Boston Straight Pride Parade.... SHFA was created around the idea that straight people are an "oppressed majority.".... They have opposed COVID-19 prevention measures.... Members of the group also believe that Democrats and leftists are plotting to implement communism in the United States.... The organization has been said to dog whistle white nationalists and alt-rightists, utilizing terms such as "western culture"....
Is this less fun or more fun than adults struggling with children over playground territory? I see there's a 2021 article in the Boston Globe — "Super Happy Fun America always claimed to be kidding. But their history suggests otherwise" — so I seem to be asking the central question. Excerpt:
[R]esearchers who study the far right and have tracked Super Happy Fun America’s rise say the group’s jocular exterior hides a disturbing truth: For some, it serves as a gateway into the far right, offering people a socially acceptable entry point into extremism....
The group’s lionization of traditional gender roles and its stream of jokey press releases with made-up claims... have helped normalize radical ideas, these experts say.
Can you "lionize" a concept? My dictionary says "lionize" is something you do to a person — to treat him like a lion or to make a lion — not a mouse — out of him.
And speaking of language, let me bring this post in for a landing, with that other question you may be holding onto, waiting for me to face.
Re: "Love At First Dink." So "dink" is rearing it's ugly little syllable again, wanting to be slang? I remember when it meant people in couples with "dual income no kids." Perhaps you remember it as military slang (a racial slur).
Ah! But I see that "dink" has been a tennis word since the 1930s. "A drop-shot in lawn tennis," says the OED, quoting J.D. Budge's 1939 "On Tennis": "Some players resent their opponent's using the drop shot, or the ‘dink’ shot as they scornfully refer to it." And, from The New Yorker in 1969: "Nobody in his right mind, really, would try those little dink shots he tries as often as he does."
And I would think, nobody in their right mind would try to stake out pickleball space in a small city park where children want to play.
From "'Utter takeover': Pickleball invasion prompts turf war in West Village" (Gothamist).
The anti-pickleballists are hardcore. They don't just get signatures for their petition. They garner them.
That phrase: "super happy, fun." What does that remind me of?
No, that's just happy fun ball. So far from a whiffle ball, but let's move on, because it's not super happy fun.
I google the phrase and the top hit is "Super Happy Fun America." Oh, no! It's right wing! Wikipedia says:
The group first became known for organizing the 2019 Boston Straight Pride Parade.... SHFA was created around the idea that straight people are an "oppressed majority.".... They have opposed COVID-19 prevention measures.... Members of the group also believe that Democrats and leftists are plotting to implement communism in the United States.... The organization has been said to dog whistle white nationalists and alt-rightists, utilizing terms such as "western culture"....
Is this less fun or more fun than adults struggling with children over playground territory? I see there's a 2021 article in the Boston Globe — "Super Happy Fun America always claimed to be kidding. But their history suggests otherwise" — so I seem to be asking the central question. Excerpt:
[R]esearchers who study the far right and have tracked Super Happy Fun America’s rise say the group’s jocular exterior hides a disturbing truth: For some, it serves as a gateway into the far right, offering people a socially acceptable entry point into extremism....
The group’s lionization of traditional gender roles and its stream of jokey press releases with made-up claims... have helped normalize radical ideas, these experts say.
Can you "lionize" a concept? My dictionary says "lionize" is something you do to a person — to treat him like a lion or to make a lion — not a mouse — out of him.
And speaking of language, let me bring this post in for a landing, with that other question you may be holding onto, waiting for me to face.
Re: "Love At First Dink." So "dink" is rearing it's ugly little syllable again, wanting to be slang? I remember when it meant people in couples with "dual income no kids." Perhaps you remember it as military slang (a racial slur).
Ah! But I see that "dink" has been a tennis word since the 1930s. "A drop-shot in lawn tennis," says the OED, quoting J.D. Budge's 1939 "On Tennis": "Some players resent their opponent's using the drop shot, or the ‘dink’ shot as they scornfully refer to it." And, from The New Yorker in 1969: "Nobody in his right mind, really, would try those little dink shots he tries as often as he does."
And I would think, nobody in their right mind would try to stake out pickleball space in a small city park where children want to play.
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