Reply #50: I'm not so sure.

[lumberjack_jeff]

"Superior" and "inferior" have nothing to do with the OP's point.

Like squeezing a water balloon, exerting social pressure to change people's behavior doesn't make the predispositions (which caused the behavior in the first place), go away, it just displaces it into other venues.

Modern sport isn't a outlet for aggressive urges, it's the offspring of their displacement. The kind of hyper-masculine gruntfest which passes for "sport" today, is, in my opinion, a manifestation of this displaced aggression. I don't think it's that much of a stretch to suggest that war cheerleading may be another.