VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Matt Westwood|DATE|1357643523|CONTENT|@Steve: I take your point about women&#039;s sporting profile having been raised in the Olympics. I was thinking more about the macho attitudes in particularly football. It&#039;s the idea that because of their (dubious) skill at kicking a silly ball about, young men (often not particularly philosophically deep) are given an unbalanced attitude about their self-worth and societal importance.

As a result, many of them have an inaccurate view of what is acceptable behaviour on their behalf. And so you get stories of how they beat up members of ethnic minorities in the streets outside pubs, and administer date-rape drugs to young girls and subject them to extended bouts of multiple congress without having previously obtained their consent (see recent Steubenville incident).

Such would be bad enough, but in certain cases those responsible for meting out punishment for such egregious behaviour are influenced by the perceived high social status of these young men (purely on the basis of their sporting abilities) such that they are tempted to treat them either leniently or (worse) as though such behaviour is normal and acceptable for such people.|EMAIL|prime.mover@proofwiki.org|IP-ADDRESS|81.142.211.61|MODERATIONFLAG|