There's an episode where they find a huge underwater pyramid that has ancient Greek writing on it. A character gets possessed and starts speaking Greek. It turns out it's The Temple of Minerva built by Neptune. Now if you had a thing for mythology, like I did, as a kid you probably notice those are the Roman names of the gods. And Minerva is a black woman. This is in the early 90s.
This "replacement rot" has been going on for a long time
I'd never really thought about it, but when I heard someone else discussing the phenomenon it made sense; it's written by the theatre kids.
It's at least in part resentment, while also being very exaggerated. Jocks are bad because they had a better time in school than the people writing the fictional character did.
Though granted, a lot of jocks across America get a much sweeter deal than they probably should because of the absurd level some people get invested into kid's sports.
I don't have any lingering grudges, all the ones I knew growing up were alright guys and a few were in the Anime Club with me even, but we had teachers who'd literally stop class to applaud them for plays or give them outs on doing homework because they had practice/games.
Its one of those things where its kinda true, but then gets blown up into delusional by guys who were probably the problem themselves.
I was more talking attitudes. It's not that they weren't privileged in some ways, it's that they often weren't jerks and meatheads.
That portrayal was largely resentment-fueled. The stereotypical jock is a senseless, malicious bully with the IQ of a sponge, and that's certainly at the very least exaggerated.
Right. If I was getting at they do get the kind of special treatment that that alone could fuel resentment. And if they were a less upstanding person, could absolutely abuse that position to be as bad as a lot of movies portrayed. It wasn't my experience, but I could see how it could happen somewhere.
At the very least, every non-ghetto school I've known for a very long time now had some form academic requirement to be involved in athletics, so they can't be that stupid unless they are getting a lot of background support to hide their failing grades.