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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s the psychology behind middle aged women who act cliquish and gatekeep friendships? Who can’t be polite at kids’ games, and try to establish some sort of hierarchy? I don’t get it.[/quote]

Lax and hockey moms are only ones I see doing this and only some of them [/quote]

What is it about Lax?? I have no experience with the game and/or parents. Why does it attract these types?[/quote]

Hockey and lax are essentially working class sports (lots of head shots on young brains), but you need to have quite a bit of money to play them. They attract the cultural set that values a $70K pickup truck, white wine moms, big houses, big SUVs, etc.[/quote]

Amazing insight.  I’m from Canada and this is true of hockey, l didn’t know about LAX.  How about football?  Lots of head trauma there as well.  This was true of rugby as well in Canada. Add a speed boat as well to the $70k pickup.  [/quote]

Football is different in the US because it is frequently organized by school teams and therefore you get a lot more socioeconomic and racial diversity. The school district will absorb the lion’s share of the costs.

Hockey and lacrosse are notoriously upper middle class sports in the US due to expense for equipment, facilities, travel tournaments, etc. But there’s still a brutish blue collar sensibility with those sports, given the physical nature and hits to the head. I played ice hockey in the US and all of my teammates were decently well off, but usually in blue collar trades - dad owned a construction or plumbing company, or the family owned some gas stations. That’s enough to get an expensive truck or a nice boat, plus put your kids through parochial private school.

Kids don’t play rugby in the US. Everyone I know who played rugby at a competitive level - mostly foreigners living in the US - is a lunatic and has serious physical issues from injury. Lots of suicide among rugby players, likely from CTE. I’d let my kid play American football before ever letting them play rugby. [/quote]

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