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Are Abusive Relationships Linked to Playing Aggressive Sports Too?

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Whenever you get used to aggression in one sphere of life, it does cast its shadows on the other spheres of life too.

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Here is a news item published on March 28, 2014…

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Posted: Friday, 28 March 2014 2:19PM Some High School Sports Linked to Abusive Relationships

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Thomas Northcut/Thinkstock(PITTSBURGH) — Participating in high school sports is supposed to build character but it may be having just the opposite effect when teenage boys play football and basketball. A new National Violence Against Women Survey finds that a hyper-masculine attitude associated with these particular sports can make boys more abusive toward their girlfriends as compared to their male counterparts who play baseball, run track, swim or wrestle. The researchers had approximately 1,650 California boys in grades 9-12 answers questions about what sports they played, whether they were in relationships that lasted at least a week and if they had physically, verbally, or sexually abused a partner over the past three months… More at: kmbz.com

Football is the biggest culprit among them all!

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What do we infer from this?

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Do we need re-designing our sports culture?

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But How?

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we have been playing these masculine sports

for hundreds if not thousands of year!

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How can we do away with our legacy all of a sudden?

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Certainly we can’t,

and we won’t.

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But we at least can start a discussion!

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We also need to start a debate if aggression is a necessary part of

human survival on earth or not.

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And if it is, are we doomed to keep sobbing under the dark shadow of abusive relationships in our man woman interactions in our culture?

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What is domestic violence if not the result of abusive

relationships between the two genders?

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We need to give it a serious thought!


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