sports culture

Sports Rape Culture Keeps On Thriving

by Cara July 9, 2008

The title to this opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald about rugby rape culture is atrocious — When a woman cries rape, a football code turns itself into a fortress — but it turns out that we can either blame the editor, or a poor sense of irony. Because the article is actually quite [...]

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Sports Columnist Calls Out Sports-Related Misogyny

by Cara May 14, 2008

I’ll admit it: I’m shocked. As a general rule — and the blowup doll incident that this column is about is Exhibit A — I don’t think particularly highly of sports culture. Fact is, there seems to be a higher instance of misogyny and violence against women in male sports culture, not to mention a [...]

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