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Football, wars and sex

Posted by Jenni Colwill on 15 May 2009 | 1 Comments

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I like football (AFL, actually) and used to think it was a healthy way of discharging boyish high spirits. But it has all become a bit serious lately. It seems rather than discharging high spirits, football encourages unhealthy attitudes to women, and football culture is now more about blokes exercising dominating and aggressive behaviour, with a heavy emphasis on normalising brutish behaviour toward women.

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