June 2012
8 posts
“In other words, poop is the great equalizer. The fact that it happens so frequently, and publicly, to athletes in action creates a toxic paradox that, just like a triple bacon gordita, we don’t exactly know how to process. This entire issue of The Magazine is proof of how we, as a society, regard athletes’ bodies as the ideal representation of the human form. We hate and hide defecation because, as Freud said, it reminds us that we aren’t, in fact, pure spiritual beings; we inhabit physical forms that are flawed, organic and, in the case of the New Orleans Saints, pretty dang nasty.”
—http://espn.go.com/espn/print?id=5651802&type=story
