Women
Women have been involved in the game since its inception. There are women's footy players and even umpires in the AFL. However there still exist stereotypes against women and issues among football fans.
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Famous quotes containing the word women:
“The women take so little stock
In what I do or say
They’d sooner leave their cosseting
To hear a jackass bray....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“What we men share is the experience of having been raised by women in a culture that stopped our fathers from being close enough to teach us how to be men, in a world in which men were discouraged from talking about our masculinity and questioning its roots and its mystique, in a world that glorified masculinity and gave us impossibly unachievable myths of masculine heroics, but no domestic models to teach us how to do it.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)