The guest scholarly commentary this week was given by Dr. Robert Rinehart. He is currently a professor at the University of Waikato in New Zealand, but taught and coached at many schools. He discussed his biography as an athlete, stating that he played football, he swam, and began to run a lot in his twenties and thirties. Rinehart recalls that as a kid, his dad was both physically and mentally abusive. His father never attended any of football games, swim meets, or band concerts, and he was a very egocentric bully. Rinehart emphasized that how men treat boys is extremely important. If boys are expected to always be tough and told to suck-it-up, it limits their ways of exploring and existing in the world. Rinehart explained that this perpetuates
