Think about it.
The compulsory shower and compulsory nudity have nothing to do with hygiene. They're humiliation techniques, plain and simple.
When a school creates an athletic team, endows it with special insignia and praise, that school is knowingly creating a goon squad to terrorize other students.
The school is sending a message: Might makes Right.
I agree in a way... There is no reason not to have stalls around each shower with a door...community showers are a form of humiliation and it doesn't' help that the locker room staff can gawk at you....
sharethank goodness we never had showers at school. makes me cringe to think of it if we did
shareI DID have to shower (required) after gym class (again, required), and I was humiliated not only for myself, but for all the other kids (boys and girls locker rooms) who where mentally abused by this control tactic. I am in my forties now, and I have still suffer emotionally from it. I had a male chum who attended an all-boys Catholic school, and he told me that the pervert priests made them swim in the nude...WHY??? We all know why now, don't we? I am Catholic, and it is a beautiful religion. It is the Vatican that is a corrupt, good-old-boys club that gives it a bad reputation.
shareBoys swimming naked in high school wasn't limited to Catholic high schools for my generation. I went to public school and heard the boys talk about this in the cafeteria. The teacher gave them the creeps but there were no stories of molestation that I ever heard.
My mother asked me what the big deal was and she was a Catholic school survivor. When I heard of this movie and told her about it she was incensed.
The Fabio Principle: Puffy shirts look best on men who look even better without them.
No it's not this was a prison.
I never had any shower problems at high school or found it embarrasing, god how kids seems to have got prude or awful to eatchother.
I went to a Catholic HS. There weren't any showers in the locker room, at least none that were used. We saw each other in our underwear at most.
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