Wyoming Football Coach Resigns After ‘Hurt Feelings Report’-“little sissy” and “girly-man.”

[RamboLiberal]

A high school football coach in Wyoming resigned in the wake of controversy over an offensive questionnaire he distributed to his players called the “Hurt Feelings Report.” The survey used homophobic and sexist language to demeans any potential complainer as a “little sissy” and “girly-man.”

The sarcastic form asks the player if they have “permanent feeling damage” or if they “require a tissue for the tears.” The paper was handed out to the players before a play-off game last month, according to the Wyoming Tribune.

At a public meeting last week, the Johnson County School District board announced that Pat Lynch would resign as head football coach for the Buffalo Bisons and as a weightlifting coach. However, Lynch kept his position as the school’s guidance counselor, under the stipulation of administrative supervision.

The document also featured a “reasons for filing this report” section where the person could check boxes by the relevant issues, including “I am thin skinned,” “I have woman like hormones” and “I am a cry baby.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/11/wyoming-football-coach-resigns-after-hurt-feelings-report/

[lbrtbell]

1. That coach probably soils himself if he gets a head cold

That's usually the way these "macho" types are.

[gejohnston]

4. freaks out

and calls the cops and game dept. first time he sees a deer grazing on his lawn. Now I'm getting homesick. Florida sucks (other than the diving and manatee)

[saras]

6. He tries to blow his nose and poops? That's a real shithead.

[gejohnston]

2. where did they find this guy?

They should fire his ass and send him packing to someplace in (pick your least favorite state). I know a couple of good folks stuck here in Rick Scott land that would love to go home and have a job.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

3. Lynch kept his position as the school’s guidance counselor

Given a choice, I would prefer he remain a coach. But he should be neither.

[gejohnston]

5. Oil rig in the Red Desert?

in January? That is my thought. Doubt he could hack it.

[fishwax]

19. +1

[msongs]

7. but HE KEEPS HIS JOB as a counselor to students, cuz they love this POS nt

[steve2470]

8. This is really sad

This attitude is one of the reasons we men grow up to have problems in relationships and with society.

Yes, I consider myself "thin-skinned" but it's better than being almost oblivious to others' feelings.

[duhneece]

9. That's just the language one uses to demean women

To try to 'keep women in their (less-than, lower than men) place.

[duhneece]

10. Could be, should be opportunity for educating

I want there to be a discussion about how this particular language hurts women, hurts women's image, hurts our communities.

[Fumesucker]

24. It hurts men too...

The only acceptable emotions a man is allowed to feel are anger and triumph, anything else brings on just what the OP was talking about.

It's pretty stifling emotionally.

[blogslut]

11. He gets to remain as a guidance counselor?

I think that might be irony.

[PassingFair]

14. I'm sure he's particularly helpful with his female students.

It's not like he uses "girl" as a pejorative or anything like that....

What a jerk!

I can't believe they're keeping him on in ANY capacity.

[Sabriel]

12. Not that uncommon

Some of my students still report that their football coaches had "Smear the Queer" drills and referred to the soccer team as "Field Fairies."

And not all of them were dinosaurs, either. Some were in their 30's.

Argh.

[backtoblue]

13. Why is it always eluded to a perceived female trait??

[redqueen]

21. Because we browbeat men into stifling their emotions while they're toddlers.

By doing that, we are teaching them that emotions and feelings are 'for girls'... and that anything to do with girls (besides sex! huh huh huh) is 'less than'.

It's child abuse IMO.

[originalpckelly]

23. Exactly.

[Sabriel]

15. Here's the actual form, if anyone wants to see it

It's worse than I thought.

[originalpckelly]

18. I think this coach wants his mommy, just not in the way the "girly man" would.

[fishwax]

20. wow

:grr:

And yet they kept him on as a guidance counselor. :wtf:

[originalpckelly]

22. Interestingly, I have a feeling no one with actual woman hormones will ever fuck him again.

[LeftinOH]

16. Pity the poor non-jock kids who may need his services as guidance counselor;

more likely, they avoid him at all costs.

[Angry Dragon]

17. 'Lynch kept his position as the school’s guidance counselor'

I would not want him guiding me