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Hooliganism begins in the home (opinion)

Started by Natasha, June 14, 2008, 06:14:02 AM

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Natasha

June 14, 2008, 06:14:02 AM
Hooliganism begins in the home

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=4ab92338-e66e-4a9d-a8e8-77a2663b6816&p=1
6/14/2008

"Given dramatic changes to marriage in Quebec, this may not be so surprising. As British columnist and author Melanie Phillips argues in The Sex-Change Society: Feminised Britain and the Neutered Male, men who fear losing their masculine identity behave in stereotypically masculine ways. Football, for instance, "has helped preserve and restate ideals of masculinity in a society that that has displaced notions of what it is to be male. ... Even football hooliganism has been explained as a 'quick way to fill a previously empty trolley in the masculinity supermarket.'" Hockey hooliganism can hardly be different."

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