[Before we begin, for anyone who would like to lose 10 points of IQ due to an incompetent soccer fan, please be our guest and read this article (http://amymaestri.com/198/).]
Dear Amy Maestri,
We read your attempt at a rebuttal today on a controversial essay “How Soccer is Ruining America”. We are not sure if you are just blinded by your own ignorance or you lack the ability to comprehend a sarcastic essay.
Lets begin with you first argument. We can see where you are coming from but you can not make an authentic rebuttal against something that was meant as a joke. Webb clearly mocks the belief that men are defined by their hands: “When you are really angry and acting like an animal, you kick with your feet. Only fools punch a wall with their hands.” This is an example of his sarcasm because the majority of the population DO punch a wall with their hands when angry.
The next counter argument that you construct makes suggest as though you did not read the entirety of the essay.You claim that Webb wrongfully analyzed the way things went down in younger sports. You obviously mistook his sarcasm once again.Webb clearly does not mean that kids should be “broken down in sports before being built back up” and this can be detected by his use of diction: “Our chanting was compensatory behavior, a way of making the time go by, which is surely why at soccer games today it is the parents who do all of the yelling." At the end of Webb’s essay, he states that he is a parent who reads on the sidelines at games; making it even more evident that he was being satirical.
As you continue to construct your irrational arguments against Webb, we can not help but notice your unrealistic claim that his last argument was “quite possibly the dumbest”.As stated in the last paragraph, which is apparent that you did not read that far, he is a father to three girls, and has a wife: “Nonetheless, I must say that my kids and I come home from a soccer game a very happy family.” Why would he deem it necessary to insult women?
Before refuting some elses’ work, one should do their background first. Stephen H. Webb is a professor of religion and philosophy as well as a soccer dad. He does have credibility and you should actually try to think beyond the sarcastic and silly comments that he makes. For example, Webb referred to penalty shootouts as “anticlimactic”. Anyone, with the exception of you, can acknowledge that penalty shootouts are the best part of the game and that his use of diction creates ambiguity.
I hope that by reading this, your eyes have been opened to the fact that this essay was oozing with satire; and if you don't know what that means I provided you with a definition: “the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing,or deriding vice, folly, etc.”
If you only take one thing from this, remember that not everything is how it seems and you should read the entirety of an essay before you refute a writer.
Dear Amy Maestri,
We read your attempt at a rebuttal today on a controversial essay “How Soccer is Ruining America”. We are not sure if you are just blinded by your own ignorance or you lack the ability to comprehend a sarcastic essay.
Lets begin with you first argument. We can see where you are coming from but you can not make an authentic rebuttal against something that was meant as a joke. Webb clearly mocks the belief that men are defined by their hands: “When you are really angry and acting like an animal, you kick with your feet. Only fools punch a wall with their hands.” This is an example of his sarcasm because the majority of the population DO punch a wall with their hands when angry.
The next counter argument that you construct makes suggest as though you did not read the entirety of the essay.You claim that Webb wrongfully analyzed the way things went down in younger sports. You obviously mistook his sarcasm once again.Webb clearly does not mean that kids should be “broken down in sports before being built back up” and this can be detected by his use of diction: “Our chanting was compensatory behavior, a way of making the time go by, which is surely why at soccer games today it is the parents who do all of the yelling." At the end of Webb’s essay, he states that he is a parent who reads on the sidelines at games; making it even more evident that he was being satirical.
As you continue to construct your irrational arguments against Webb, we can not help but notice your unrealistic claim that his last argument was “quite possibly the dumbest”.As stated in the last paragraph, which is apparent that you did not read that far, he is a father to three girls, and has a wife: “Nonetheless, I must say that my kids and I come home from a soccer game a very happy family.” Why would he deem it necessary to insult women?
Before refuting some elses’ work, one should do their background first. Stephen H. Webb is a professor of religion and philosophy as well as a soccer dad. He does have credibility and you should actually try to think beyond the sarcastic and silly comments that he makes. For example, Webb referred to penalty shootouts as “anticlimactic”. Anyone, with the exception of you, can acknowledge that penalty shootouts are the best part of the game and that his use of diction creates ambiguity.
I hope that by reading this, your eyes have been opened to the fact that this essay was oozing with satire; and if you don't know what that means I provided you with a definition: “the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing,or deriding vice, folly, etc.”
If you only take one thing from this, remember that not everything is how it seems and you should read the entirety of an essay before you refute a writer.