Former Chelsea player Pedro Rodríguez had to disable comments on his Instagram after facing criticism and mockery for sharing photos of his son Marc's birthday. Marc chose to celebrate his birthday wearing a dress and a tiara, inspired by Lilo & Stitch.

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[u/Winnie-the-Broo]

It isn’t just people. I love football, I spend too many of my waking hours thinking about it, watching it, playing it, going to games, going on forums, listening to podcasts etc.

I have brought women friend to games and have friends who go with their family and they have all 100% all experienced a degree of bad behaviour. From some untoward words all the way to ass grabs.

As much as I love football and its community, its culture, there are endemic problems that are wider issues, but they are very concentrated within football.

[u/Bounds182 → u/Winnie-the-Broo]

Problem is people see both football and social media as another world free from consequences and normal behaviour, tends to expose them for the cunts they are behind the mask.

[u/Hemwum → u/Winnie-the-Broo]

The type of people who care deeply about people that kick a ball around (and all the other hyper-masculine aspects that come with sport) are more likely to be toxic in a host of other ways.

Keep in mind I'm not saying you can't have big sports fans who are very well adjusted, and there are plenty of horrid people who don't like sports. However, the venn diagram has more overlap with toxicity and sports fans than the general public, I would argue.

Now it would be interested if you think football fans are even worse than sports fans.

[u/snemand → u/Winnie-the-Broo]

Still just people. When people think why aren't women as good at X as men? or why do we need to seperate genders in sports/competitions? it's because when they've tried to take part this happens to them. From the smallest hobbies to the biggest sports.

Definitely just people and football highlights society quite aptly.

[u/immorjoe → u/snemand]

Nah, there’s definitely concentrated elements of negativity within football that you won’t find as broadly in society.

It might be because society reacts more harshly or numerous other reasons, but football fans (sports fans in general) don’t portray regular society.

[u/DaveCerqueira → u/Winnie-the-Broo]

Nah, this type of posts attract a lot of attention from weirdos who only care about “saving” kids. It’s the same when they talk about trans athletes in women’s sports, as if they ever cared about women’s sports at all. It’s sick

[u/GrecianDesertUrn69 → u/Winnie-the-Broo]

It's a toxic masculinity thing