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What's that about social capital?

posted by After Atalanta
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 4:41pm EST

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Earlier this week I mentioned how fandom of women's sports earns one very little social capital. This point was illustrated by a Yahoo contributor article I read a few days later. The author, a female firefighter, talks about how, in order to get by in a male-dominated field, a woman needs to learn how to talk sports and picks teams and be a fan of men's professional sports. And thus she will fit in and be accepted and have something to talk about with all the men folk.
Alternately, she could wear a cheese bra.

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