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#fantastic19 Stacey Pope is talking about the perceptions of women fans of sport. There's gatekeeping in sports fandom as women are perceived as 'inauthentic' fans. Interesting parallel here with the fake-geek-girl stereotypes in geek fandoms.Permalink On Internet Archive
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#fantastic19 Similar again to comic book and sci-fi fandoms, men fans assert their superiority in gendered hierarchies by memorising information and presenting this arcane knowledge as a signifier of higher status.Permalink On Internet Archive
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#fantastic19 Women fans in sports (and, I would argue, in plenty of other fandoms) have to "continually provide their fan status and regain their cultural capital" in ways that men fans don't.Permalink On Internet Archive
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#fantastic19 Full paper for this is available open-access at: Petty, K., & Pope, S. (2018). A New Age for Media Coverage of Women’s Sport? An Analysis of English Media Coverage of the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Sociology. doi.org/10.1177/0038038518797505On Internet Archive