The social justice movement has just turned absolutely hysterical, devoid of all logic....
We appear to be one of the countries at the forefront of this worldwide, I am interested to see what happens from here.
Really?
I'm dead curious as to examples of this. I must not come across this at all in my circles or don't notice it. I'm kinda shocked, honestly, to hear that we think we are the centre of a PC madness maelstrom. I'm not on twitter and don't have much to do with the yankees...
Anyway, I don't think that was quite what I meant.
I guess I was meaning in a smaller way than most of the ways you guys are describing.
I was meaning, for example, the interesting reaction to the word hipster, when if Ryan had said a positively Wellington experience the essence would have been the same, but the reaction would have been different.
I thought there was a quite defensive reaction to the word, as if acknowledging part of the club as 'hipster' some how prevented it being a club which they had ownership over or perhaps what was traditionally viewed as a football club. It felt like an attack on what they had been supporting at the 'Nix for 10 years.
It is interesting in analysing what the YF is. It's certainly a niche bunch in what is a niche sport in this country. Perhaps much more niche than we'd like. It's a sport internationally which sits importantly in many guys' idea of their masculinity and there is a lot of difference in how this is viewed across nations. It's fair to say there are a lot of different identities of football imported onto this forum from across the world and some exported too. Or perhaps impressions of what football should be gleaned from the tele. Certainly with United wondering how to make their ground noisier and the FC United thing, the working class oligarchs game is not sure of its identity in Britain at the moment.
I'm not quite sure exactly where my thoughts were headed with this. Been sampling some of the sponsors product. Needs Desmond Morris to wrap it all up in some Football Tribe type laughs...