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Play golf? You ever hit Nicola Sturgeon?

 

Golf is for male sexist pigs, according to a recent paper (no, seriously): “How Men Use Symbolic Masculinity to Network Through Golf” (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gwao.13271).

 

Golfers really should be ashamed of themselves! Sociologist joins a bunch of Geordie golfers for a round and earwigs their banter:

 

“The flight path of golf balls and golf challenges they faced were ... given names rooted in heteronormative and misogynistic language. [t]he men developed their own jargon based around the sport. I observed shots being referred to as a

 

PHILIP SCHOFIELD: a shot that appeared “to be straight but ended up being ‘bent’”

 

SALLY GUNNELL: an ugly little runner

 

NICOLA STURGEON: to describe “a nasty little five-footer”.

 

Report goes on forever, berating these nasty men. It was “supported by National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise and Research England.”

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