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Pacifist Patriot

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4. Agreed

Reply to LuvNewcastle (Reply #3)

Fri Dec 5, 2014, 02:50 PM

Dec 2014

I am not shy about pointing it out when I hear it either. I manage a U14 boys soccer team and have let a number of the players have it for using gender and sexuality based insults in their banter. Heck, I've called total strangers out on it. I just have no tolerance for it. Doing whatever we can to combat the notion that male is strength and female is weakness is important in my opinion. You never know when you're going to get through to someone.

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