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This is perhaps the most critical problem to solve. For me, when I imagine hazing in team sports, I imagine activities like wearing upperclassmen’s pads in practice, singing karaoke in front of the locker rooms, freshmen shaving your hair or even having to pay the senior citizen bill. dinner. I view all of these activities as low-impact, non-humiliating, and fairly innocent rites of passage.
There is, however, a limit. And I think it’s pretty easy to decipher. Once activities move from fully clothed fun to forced nudity, sexual innuendo, or forced physical contact of any kind, we’ve gone way too far. To me, that’s called abuse, not hazing or team building. I feel like this position is pretty grounded in common sense, but it seems like common sense isn’t as common as it should be these days.
