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The original thread appeared in the AskReddit community about a month ago, when the topicstarter asked male netizens: "What is a traditionally masculine thing which you are not interested in?" As of today, the thread has around 1.8K upvotes and almost 5.5K various comments. As we can see, the discussion was quite lively, and not all the ideas presented by the thread participants were unanimously approved by others.
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A significant place among the answers in this thread is occupied by different variations on the sports theme. At least out of the 30 top answers that we’ve selected for this collection, 5 are pure sports, and another two or three are somehow related to it (for example, it depends on whether you consider gaming a sport or not).
In fact, with sports, everything is far from clear - and the results of the research only confirm that the world is far from being as crazy about professional sports as it was just a couple of decades ago. At least, the sports audience is getting older, and young people often choose completely different hobbies for themselves.
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For example, while in 2000, the average age of a hockey fan, according to a study conducted by Sport Business Journal, was 33 years old, basketball - 40, football - 44, and baseball - 52, the latest research, conducted in 2016, showed even more depressing figures for major leagues’ commissioners: from 42 years in the NBA to 50 in the NFL and even 57 for MLB. Young people, and young men in particular, are choosing other hobbies en masse.
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"Public opinion and people's beliefs change over time - and the digitalization of society only accelerates these processes," says Valery Bolgan, a historian and editor-in-chief of Intent news agency from Ukraine, whom Bored Panda asked for a comment here. "And if before, a trend needed months and even years to spread around the world - and some faded away even earlier, now it happens almost instantly."
"Accordingly, in developed countries, where the service sector allows you to order almost any activity on the side, there is no real need for many of the things that made a man ‘a man’ centuries ago. In the historical sense of the word, of course."
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"Today there is no classical diversification in the family and society, and we are not so dependent on what used to be called ‘public opinion.’ Now a person can quite easily give up hobbies that were previously literally imposed on them by society - and feel quite good. The world is changing - and we’re also changing with it," Valery Bolgan sums up.
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Well, no matter how controversial many of the points given in this selection actually are, we sincerely believe that you might be interested in reading the opinions of netizens on this issue. So now please feel free to scroll the list and read these points and stories - and maybe share your thoughts on the topic in the comments below as well.
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I won’t avoid mai tais and cosmos and have just Coors Light at every party, just because. I won’t refuse to watch Rachael Ray just because. I won’t limit my film choices to action films just because.
Voluntary self-restriction is very much traditionally masculine. Which is in no way a synonym of healthy.
