A critical perspective on the golf
In the Sept. 11 issue of The Campus, I wrote extensively about the environmental harms of grass lawns, and somewhat less extensively about the ostentatious bourgeois wastefulness and patriarchal white supremacist ideas underlying the imagery of the well-manicured lawn. For a comprehensive understanding of my hatred of grass, refer to that article, titled “Grass is trash.” Since taking this stance on grass, I have thought extensively about the issue and why I find it so viscerally condemnable. My conclusion is this: I blame golf. Golf is trash. Being skilled at golf requires an enormous amount of money and resources compared to other sports, and thus has an air of exclusivity or elitism surrounding it. Golf skills are not taught in school gym classes, which means that kids who want to play golf likely have to pay for lessons rather than merely joining a scholastic team. Having enough extra income to pay for something as inessential to sustaining life as golf lessons is inarguably a privilege, which cannot be ignored in discussions about the talent and discipline that may go into becoming an excellent golfer. For contrast, consider basketball, a sport that can be enjoyed with…