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by TOSSAWAY_1 1857 days ago
The solution is to bring in more school marms?
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So encouraging playing a sport in a safe way === school marm nannying?

People get CTE from extreme sports, Dave Mirra being a famous example. I think playing the sport safely is something that should be encouraged.

Let's zoom out a bit: in general, do you think companies should be encouraged to promote using their products in a way that's more dangerous that necessary if it looks cooler?

I wouldn't support a law requiring skateboard companies to use gear in their ads, but I do think that applying pressure to get them to show gear makes sense.

Eh i wouldnt support a hard rule.

Likely I'd appeal to moms after I got the cool kids though, social media style.

> 1. (US, slang) A woman who is a teacher, especially a teacher in a schoolhouse; may carry the connotation she is severe and/or a spinster.

> 2. (by extension) A person, of any gender, who exhibits characteristics attributed to schoolteachers of the old times, such as strict enforcement of arbitrary rules.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/schoolmarm#English ('marm' being apparently a (US only?) variant of 'ma'am')

[NB, delightfully, and presumably unrelatedly (though not listed as a separate etymology):

> 3. (forestry) A tree with two or more trunks; a forked tree.

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