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By Rob Cover, published 15/10/2014In past decades, the most ideal form of masculinity in Australia was, indeed, epitomised by strength, brawn, roughness, larrikin behaviour and the refusal to let women and 'less-masculine men' dominate.
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The cage fighting phenomenon is simple in conception: two men or two women get into the cage and do their best to smash to a bloody pulp their opponent. The winner gets applause and the loser needs a blood transfusion.
But people get a lesson in what life is. Either you bash someone or they bash you. Most people can get that. They don't need no socialist fantasy to clog up their minds. All they need to concentrate on is: go for the jugular.
You'd support this idea surely!