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.
https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1413489112863023113
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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Perhaps most egregious: former Flamengo goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes de Souza, who served less than 1/3 of a 22yr sentence for ordering the murder of former lover Eliza Samudio, who was strangled & her body fed to dogs. Bruno continues to earn a living playing football.
Perhaps most egregious: former Flamengo goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes de Souza, who served less than 1/3 of a 22yr sentence for ordering the murder of former lover Eliza Samudio, who was strangled & her body fed to dogs. Bruno continues to earn a living playing football.
"Clubs are organisations that can speak to the people a lot better than the government. They help create a culture, so when a...football club...accepts someone found guilty of violence against women, it says to the Brazilian people that it's acceptable,” Monica Sapucaia Machado.
#Argentina, 2 players with one of the country’s most known clubs--Boca Juniors--have been accused of domestic abuse--goalkeeper Augustin Rossi and Colombian forward Sebastian Villa. sportstar.thehindu.com/football/boca-… #CopaAmerica
This in a country where the number of women killed reached a 10-year high under coronavirus lockdown in 2020. #CopaAmerica2021
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#Italy: the league has been condemned for failing to act decisively enough vs sexism.
“We have always experienced the first rows as trenches. Women, wives and girlfriends are not allowed inside, so we ask them to sit from the 10th row back." #EURO2020
reuters.com/article/us-ita…
“We have always experienced the first rows as trenches. Women, wives and girlfriends are not allowed inside, so we ask them to sit from the 10th row back." #EURO2020
reuters.com/article/us-ita…
This in a country where during lockdown, women who couldn't call a helpline or directly report domestic abuse had to resort to calling police emergency # & say: "I'd like to order a margarita pizza" which would alert operator to send round a patrol. #italy france24.com/en/live-news/2…
The #Italian League has been condemned for failing to act decisively enough against racism and antisemitism--not just from fans but by club officials. sbnation.com/2017/11/2/1655…
"If #ENG gets beaten, so will she."
During #England games in the 2002, 2006 and 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. feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-f…
During #England games in the 2002, 2006 and 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. feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-f…
Researchers from UK’s Lancaster University who analysed domestic violence figures from England’s games in those men's World Cups found that incidents of domestic abuse were 11% higher the day after an England match. #EURO2020 #ENG
https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1017028733067292672?s=20
This in a country where Refuge, a UK charity that operates a 24-hour national domestic abuse helpline, logged a 61% surge in calls to its domestic abuse helpline in England. theguardian.com/society/2021/m… #Euro2020Final
"It's coming home."
Whether #England is the home of football or not matters little to women and children whose abusers make home hell after major football games.
Let’s be clear though: it is not football that makes cisgender men abuse women and children. It is patriarchy,
Whether #England is the home of football or not matters little to women and children whose abusers make home hell after major football games.
Let’s be clear though: it is not football that makes cisgender men abuse women and children. It is patriarchy,
Abuse “doesn’t happen by appointment. It happens all year round – it is a choice a perpetrator makes, stemming from power and control, from gender inequality, which misogyny and patriarchy helps perpetuate” Kim Manning-Cooper, Refuge head of communications refuge.org.uk/domestic-abuse…
The violence that goes home with the men’s game is a wholly-owned subsidiary of patriarchy. You would be naive to think that such violence is limited to women and children. #Euro2020Final #CopaAmerica2021
It is what fuels the boos when players take a knee and the racial abuse yelled at Black & players of colour; it is what fuels homophobic chants that are brushed off as “jokes.”
#EURO2020 #CopaAmerica
#EURO2020 #CopaAmerica
The abusive behaviour of superstars must be directly connected to the behaviour of abusers in the stands and in the pubs who watch them. The through line is patriarchy.
#EURO2020 #CopaAmerica
#EURO2020 #CopaAmerica
It is not football that makes cisgender men abuse women and children. It is not the alcohol those men consume while watching football that makes them hurt women and children. Win, lose or draw, the score doesn’t make a man beat a woman.
Patriarchy does. feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-f…
Patriarchy does. feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-f…
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