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The comparisons stop and end at living vicariously through one's child. One of them you have to take pills to change your body's chemistry and physical make-up and the other provides structure and keeps a young person active. One of them is an imperfect social construct not based on science, while the other is proven to teach discipline and team building life skills.
Any negative that sports provide a kid are nothing compared to a child being told everything they believe is a lie and that they're actually the opposite sex. You can't be fucking serious here- I hope to god you don't have any kids.
Do you really think that I'm talking about someone simply making Junior play pee wee football for a season or two? Do you think all LGB parents are like the nuts in that picture earlier in the thread?
Extreme overbearing sports dads who "played in college but never made it big" can damage their kids psychologically for life. Read Andre Agassi's autobiography. Perfect example. Dude was messed up mentally off the court.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blo...1/parental-pressure-takes-toll-young-athletes
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...psychological-damage-says-study-10485172.html
Those people from the OP and earlier in the thread are causing extreme, irreparable harm to their children's psychological development. You seem offended by the analogy even though I already said the damage they cause are not equal and that the people in OP are causing more harm. But that the comparison I made is that these parent's are forcing what they wanted for themselves at a young age on their kids, which is always harmful regardless of the topic. But it's especially bad in this case.