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JS: |
Why is Simon picked on? |
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Chris: |
I dunno, it’s just that he’s got a funny head and people say/ |
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Robert: |
And he’s got a funny voice.. .and he’s sort like really soft inside |
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Chris: |
Pick on |
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Ryan: |
He’s a bit behind |
The physical features again play a part but it is also because Simon is ‘soft inside’ and
therefore the antithesis of what a boy at Westmoor Abbey needed to be like. Both Simon
and Sam (and Georgia, mentioned above) were also on the school’s Special Needs
Register and received extra help with their work from a Teacher’s Assistant [7].
However, the main reason that Simon and Sam were subordinated was that they did not
possess any other resources to compensate and construct their masculine identities in
other ways.
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JS: |
Why aren’t they that popular then? |
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Tom: |
Because, like, they don’t do anything, they’re not good at football, |
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Eric: |
You’ve got to be good at something to be popular |
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Tom: |
They ain’t no good at drawing |
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JS: |
OK, so there’s nothing that they’re really good at? |
|
Tom: |
No. |
Homophobia
Although homophobia was most prevalent and persistent at Westmoor Abbey,
homophobic abuse was also an enduring constituent of the peer group culture at each
school. In fact, the word ‘gay’ was probably the most common word of abuse found
across all three schools and was used to describe anything from being not very good to
absolute rubbish. At Westmoor Abbey, I found that a boy could even have ‘gay’ trainers
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