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[quote=Anonymous]I went to college at a school with a long history of great lax teams.  I now live in Baltimore.  The lax culture has been the same for the 25 years since I graduated from college.  Lax players aren't dumb, but like any other college athlete, many (but not all) are at schools they would have not been admitted to but for their lax skills.  A large number of strong high school teams historically are at all boys prep schools -- this may influence their not great treatment of women (easier to objectify women if you aren't use to interact act with them on a daily basis).  Men's lax is violent -- checking is not allowed in the women's version.  Go to any boy's youth lax game in baltimore, even for the 7 and 8 year olds, and you will hear parents on the sidelines screaming for kids to hit each other.  Multiply this by 10 or 15 years and see if you get more violent behavior (hard to think of a sport that has more violence as a component other than football).  Add in that the elite male players are now recruited by colleges as freshman (women as sophomores) and you have a group of kids that coasts through high school knowing that it is more important to keep their lax skill then develop academic skills.[/quote]

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