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From the writings of Theodore Dalrymple (Anthony Daniels), my most favourite conservative writer.

The middle-class female fan (of whom there are increasing numbers) has
a double transformation to undergo: first she must turn herself into
what she imagines a proletarian to be, that is to say a person of the
coarsest sentiment and the most uninhibited vulgarity; and second into
a man, that is to say a person of the coarsest sentiment and the most
uninhibited vulgarity. She thus imposes upon herself a double dose of
unattractiveness. And because the interest is of comparatively recent
origin in her, she mugs up on the recent history of the game and is
anxious to show off her knowledge of it. Not surprisingly, this turns
her into a frightful bore.
		-- New Statesman, November 22, 1999
		   http://www.britannica.com/bcom/magazine/article/0,5744,342086,00.html

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