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is part of a generation of parents who voted and agreed upon giving children participation trophies
Belittles those children as adults for receiving the participation trophies they dreamed up
Annoyed adolescents
Surprised geriatrics
us: participation trophies made of white ribbon
them: participation trophies made of living wages and home ownership
Also, I have never, ever actually received a so-called participation trophy. As far as I know they made it up just to be dicks
Had a couple medals from tee-ball leagues and stuff, but it really served more as a souvineer to remember it by. The team that won still got an actual trophy.
I did once! Technically it was a participation ribbon. Picture it: Southern California, 1993, school foot race. I was 8 years old. The winners got the blue ribbon and the whatever second place was colored ribbon. And everybody else (me) got a white participation ribbon.
Yeah, this is consistent with my experience too. I got one or two participation ribbons in my whole school life (graduated early 2000s), but they weren't common, and they never came at the exclusion of winners being recognized.
I'm too old for em, but folks born after like 1995 got em
Are you sure? Never got mine :) had to work for every single trophy I got.
We fucked you guys over in every imaginable way and now we're blaming you for it. I'm so sorry.
I mean I am sure in that I coached teams as a 22 year old that received participation trophies in the same leagues in which I did not, yes
Closest I've seen was my kid getting one for a charity run. I'm not sure it counts since it wasn't a race - everyone who ran got the same ribbon. My kid didn't even run - he was a scout and volunteered to raise the flag and lead the Pledge of Allegiance.
I think it's probably one of those things that happened in a few places and the right wingers talk about it like it happens everywhere.
We get participation trophies because we can't win at life anymore.
This made me sigh and chuckle at the same time.