[104774] in Cypherpunks
Re: Soccer Moms?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petro)
Wed Oct 28 14:40:57 1998
In-Reply-To: <896C7C3540C3D111AB9F00805FA78CE2013F84C8@MSX11002>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 13:03:41 -0500
To: "Brown, R Ken" <brownrk1@texaco.com>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
Reply-To: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
At 8:28 AM -0500 10/13/98, Brown, R Ken wrote:
>In the middle of an interesting article about digital cash, forwarded
>here by Bob Hettinga, there was the line:
>
>> After all, the kind of soccer moms who elected Bill Clinton
>
>"Divided by a common language" as I am I genuinly don't know what that
>means. And I can't even guess from context. I'd have expected a dig at
>liberals or feminists or welfare recipients at that point; and I can't
>work out what soccer has to do with it.
>
>Do mothers play soccer much in the USA?
>
>Football (as the 95% of the world's population that aren't either
>English-speaking North Americans or else Rugby fans call the Beautiful
>Game) is associated in my mind with young men, specifically working
>class men. It's connotations are entirely macho, even violent. When a
>big match is on men gather in pubs and bars and shout at TVs whilst
>knocking back the lager. You avoid the centre of town if you don't want
>to risk getting involved in a fight. People get *killed* at football
>matches. That's pretty much true in every big city inthe world outside
>North America (and Japan where the fans are polite).
>
>This honestly isn't a troll - I am in fact bewildered by the phrase.
I am currently in the process of catching up on C-punks, did this
get answered to your satisfaction?
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