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When I was growing up, rugby was emblematic in many ways of hard, tough masculinities. Playing rugby was part of the rites of passage from boyhood to manhood – and it’s no accident in South Africa that rugby is a very rough sport. When I was growing up, rugby was emblematic in many ways of hard...

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