General homophobia in French football

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May 162013
 

Blogmensgo, May 2, 2013) The researcher and sports psychologist Anthony Mette unveiled April 30, 2013, the analysis of homophobia in professional football he coordinated on behalf of Paris Foot Gay (the club 10 years this year) and with the financial support of Randstad (available here , password foot ).

Paris Foot Gay: website (unavailable) | Facebook page

Players who “declared hostile thoughts toward homosexuals” are 41% in the professional ranks, 50% in the training centers and all sports, 8% in the amateur ranks.

Without comment. Click to enlarge. © PFG.

Without comment. Click to enlarge. © PFG.

Fear of gay in the shower

If a teammate came to his coming out, 63% of professional football players and 73% of the training center say they would be surprised to see break such a taboo. Result, 55% of players in training would be afraid to take a shower in the presence of a gay player, 22% would prefer to change teams and even 23% would fear a lesser team performance.

According to Anthony Mette, players are however largely in favor of the idea of ​​having a gay teammate and consider primarily for its sports capital and not his homosexuality.

Anthony Mette explains homophobia training centers by their isolation context (or even imprisonment), competition and aggression.

 

The referees also!

How to remedy this situation? By educating coaches and training them better on the subject, the report says. Repellini Pierre, who runs a coaching union (Unecatef) But it fails to training best suited against homophobia and said that kids willingly practice verbal homophobia without malice.

Coordinated by Anthony Mette study reports that the players do not have a monopoly on homophobia. Between referees also homophobic behaviors are perennials.

There are two and a half years, France inaugurated a national charter against homophobia in sport (see our article of October 25, 2010 ) that has hardly changed behavior on the pitch and in the stands. Only a professional football club of five signed the charter.

 

Sanctions nonexistent

Methodology. Studying Anthony Mette looked at 13 clubs (Ligue 1, Ligue 2, National) and 363 athletes, including 121 professional players, 129 players at the training center and 113 athletes constituting a control group. The anonymous questionnaire included a hundred questions about discrimination in general, few issues are devoted to homosexuality. Survey conducted from September 2012 to February 2013.

Comments. In France, the sanctions against top players for homophobic behavior can be counted on the fingers of one hand very amputated because homophobia is not considered unsportsmanlike as well as racism . As for sanctions for abuses homophobic fans, they are almost as rare.

It is different in other countries.  In December 2012, for example, a Swedish club did not hesitate to sack all players active homophobia ( source ).  In Germany, the official authorities are preparing the ground for footballers would come out (see our article of March 7, 2013 ).

The report underlines the PFG homophobic behavior falls under the personal thought of copy and paste. If the big brother or big athlete claims of fag break, kids training center do the same. If the big brother and especially the most famous footballers were the opposite, it is certain that much of the kids imitate. Is it still the most quoted players deign to engage fully against homophobia.

There is also no doubt that the outrageous behavior of some leaders and commentators obese adversely affects the attitude of the kids.

This article has been translated from our French blog, to view the original, click here.

Philca & Matt / MensGo (via 20 Minutes of April 29 and NouvelObs.com April 30)

 

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A large minority of French uncomfortable with homosexual couples

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Feb 142013
 

(Blogmensgo, February 14, 2013) According to an Ifop poll for Femme actuelle (a French weekly) of 6 February 2013 on the unusual couples, the French state not being “uncomfortable” with the homosexual couples, but a significant minority of respondents expressed discomfort.

Lesbian couple

French people who are feeling uncomfortable… should buy a new couch. ©Photoxpress.com/Dmitri Mikitenko.

The survey asked: “Each of the following types of couples putting you uncomfortable?”
A couple composed of two men is 43% of French uncomfortable against 57% saying not being uncomfortable. Discomfort for 48% of men, while it does not bother that 38% of women. 
A lesbian couple is uncomfortable 41% of respondents against 59% who do not experience any discomfort. Again men are 43% to be bothered by female homosexuality, against 40% of women.

Other forms of atypical couples the French are “uncomfortable” in similar proportions. For example, couples where the woman is much older than the man put 41% of French people uncomfortable (against 59% who say not to be so). But when it is the man who is much older than the woman, does such a couple uncomfortable that 33% of respondents, while 67% do not experience any discomfort.

[Online Survey conducted from January 12 to 15, 2013, with 1215 people major French, according to the quota method.]

Comment. pity that details of the survey are not available online at the time this article was written.  I’m curious to see if the questionnaire included more detailed questions, if only to check out what, precisely, is the brave French “uncomfortable” about.

The fact that the survey was conducted online, but also and especially just before, during and after the homophobic demonstrations were held on January 13 – that’s a double bias unlikely to strengthen a priori credibility of such a survey.

This article has been translated from our French blog, to view the original, click here.

Philca & Matt / MensGo

(via the entire French press on 6 February 2013, which NouvelObs.com )

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The association Refuge received three times more calls in 2012

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Jan 092013
 

(Blogmensgo, January 9, 2013) The national helpline of the French association Refuge received 434 calls in 2012 against 146 calls in 2011. Refuge, which aims to help young gay and lesbians in the midst of family breakdown, estimated by its president Nicolas Noguier the tripling of calls is due to “homophobia that was already latent in society”.

The Refuge: Website | Facebook

The number of calls has increased significantly since November 2012, when began the debate on marriage for all in France. In December 2012, the association received 212 calls, 31 of those calls were made on Christmas Eve.

The motivation of calls has changed compared to previous years. While they originated before gays and lesbians outted to direct family (on the occasion of a coming out or discovering their homosexuality), appeals, especially since the end of 2012, more concern over situations breaking out in indirect sharp criticism against the bill on gay marriage on the part of families, and also classmates.

This results in “a higher number of attacks and a lot of discomfort,” says Nicolas Noguier in a brief interview with RTL (link below).

There is a “significant increase in members and donors in 2012,” says the president of the Refuge, however, on the Facebook page of the association, while regretting that the French Government has not taken any action to prevent awareness of the recent “externalization of homophobia.”

Comment. If homosexuality is a little more accepted in France, the most visceral homophobia are not remotely provided. The survey results revealed by Ifop on January 3, 2013 by Weekly Current Values ​​(ranked far right) show, in the form of a silhouette, a worrying continuation of the homophobic climate.

69% of respondents – a question directed itself enough – say that it is necessary to hold a referendum on marriage and adoption for all homoparental couples is indeed a sign of no pluralistic concern. Quite the contrary. Except rare exceptions, sensitive societal issues – by debate or controversy – are unable to overcome the obstacle when the referendum comes as the company is still more conservative and cautious than it claims to be. This is the case in France and almost everywhere else. If we had to stick to a referendum, France would never have abolished the death penalty and allowed the right to abortion.

And the same would apply to gay marriage. If the idea of​a referendum on the issue won with 86% of the line close to the UMP and 84% of the extreme right near the FN, not less than 55% of supporters said they left them as favorable to such a referendum.

Furthermore the context of a question wording is sometimes questionable, respondents are largely unaware of how a referendum is the preferred populists, who more readily use to validate draconian options that will materialize for progressivism society.

This article has been translated from our French blog, to view the original, click here.

Philca & Matt / MensGo

(Via BFM TV and RTL January 2, January 3, 2012)

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