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9 Jul, 5 tweets, 4 min read
New Essay: When Football Goes Home

I've loved football since I was 9. But I know it's an outlet patriarchy offers to cis men as an excuse to treat us like shit. Remember that, ahead of this weekend’s epic lineup of men's finals.

#CopaAmerica #EURO2020

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With teen fans at Women’s World Cup Semi Final between USA and Germany, Montréal, 2015. 📷 @rerutled #EURO2020 #CopaAmerica Mona surrounded by three gi...
This is fucking horrendous and speaks to all I write about in my essay #Euro2020 #CopaAmerica
Whether #England is the home of football or not matters little to women and children whose abusers make home hell after major football games.

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10 Jul
Are you watching the epic football finals this weekend? Before today's #CopaAmericaFINAL and Sunday's #Euro2020Final, read my essay on domestic abuse and the men's game. tl:dr it's not the football, it's the patriarchy. #ENG #ITA #Brazil #Argentina
Patriarchy enables and protects the toxic masculinity that makes big tournaments and match days hell for too women and children. feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-f… #CopaAmerica #EURO2020
During the 2002, 2006 and 2010 World Cup, incidents of domestic abuse vs women rose by 38% when #England team lost and increased by 26% where England won or drew, compared with days when there was no England match.
Hence campaign 👇🏽 "If #ENG gets beaten, so will she." #EURO2020 Image
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10 Jul
As useful as it is to know all of that, it is imperative to resist temptation of thinking that simply moving all football games to evening start times will end domestic abuse associated w/games. Or blaming just alcohol. This is about patriarchy. I explain feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-f…
The violence that goes home with men’s football is a wholly-owned subsidiary of patriarchy. It is not football or the alcohol those men consume while watching football that makes cis men hurt women & children. It is patriarchy feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-f… #CopaAmerica #euro2020
I explain #Euro2021 #CopaAmerica
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10 Jul
For football lovers like me, this weekend is epic! The men's #CopaAmerica final between #Brazil and #Argentina on Saturday and the men's #EURO2020 final between #England and #Italy on Sunday. We know that domestic abuse is associated with men's tournaments. Let's take a look.
First: On/off the pitch, from managers to players to men who support them: patriarchy fuels a dangerous cocktail of toxic masculinity in football & many other men’s sports. Football tournaments didn't invent patriarchy. The latter drives the men’s game & the harm it takes home.
#Brazil: So egregious is the enabling and protection of football superstars in Brazil, “The Brazilian Football Association could likely field an entire team of active players accused or convicted of crimes related to gender violence or sexual assault.” bbc.com/sport/football…
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10 Jul
I remember lists of queer players during the Women's World Cup. Where are the lists of openly gay and bisexual men's footballers in this weekend's #EURO2020 final and #CopaAmerica finals?
How when we know that at least 10 percent of any population belongs to the LGBTQ+ community, is there not a single out player in the men’s top leagues while the women’s game has a long history of openly gay players?

Patriarchy. That’s how. feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-f…
Sampdoria and Sweden star Albin Ekdal in 2019 on the lack of openly gay men in professional football. @EkdalAlbin

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10 Jul
1. Fuck off with your whataboutery
2. I literally wrote an entire book about that you ignorant fuck
3. Fuck off some more
ICYMI, Tinman's whataboutery was to distract from the increase in domestic abuse associated w/ major football tournaments such as this weekend's #EURO2020 & #CopaAmerica finals. It is not football or drinking that makes cis men beat women. It is patriarchy
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On/off the pitch, from managers to players to men who support them: patriarchy fuels a dangerous cocktail of toxic masculinity in football as well as many other men’s sports. Football tournaments didn't invent patriarchy. The latter drives the men’s game & the harm it takes home.
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10 Jul
"If #ENG  gets beaten, so will she."
When #England played in 2002, 2006 & 2010 World Cup, incidents of domestic abuse rose by 38% when the team lost and rose by 26% when they won or drew, compared with days when there was no England match. Remember that ahead of #EURO2020  final
Moreover, researchers from UK’s Lancaster University found that incidents of domestic abuse were 11% higher the day after an #England match. feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-f… ##Eng #Euro2020Final #CopaAmericaFINAL
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