-'toughen up' - need to be hard
-cagefighting - 24 year old alex
-alex - trying to shed 13 pounds in 24 hours for vital weigh in
-sarcophagus out of quilts and towels - dangerous
-not eaten or drank for 24 hours
-ritualistic
-buy into metaphors in language - warriors/hunting/fighting man aesthetic
-alex - gentle soul at heart
-andy - darker set of motivations - region's most feared and brutal scrappers
-'shark tank'
-won't stop till opponent being sick or crippled on floor
-no problems in cage - all disappear
-combination of hardness and vulnerability - powerful story behind fight
-from rough estates - 'fighting anyway'
-MMA calms you down
-popular in northeast - 'born fighting'
-industrial history - 6:30am march banner around former mining village
-miners - hard on outside, soft on inside - do things properly - have pride
-industry shut down by Thatcher - men took own lives - not talking about issues - lost pride of being breadwinner
-hard, fighting, working class man - is he frightening?
-'broad shouldered, pint-wielding men'
-communities built on 'hairy shoulders' of blokes
-'stirring folk-art requiem for a certain kind of man'
-strong, stoical providers - bedrock of families
-men as hewn from steel and brick as the world they'd built
-sons and grandsons - masculinity = callous - protect them from hardships of working in very heavy industries
-struggle to change in workplace - carapace built around them - shatters/snaps/folds - no bounce
-northeast - highest rate of male suicide
-men - felt like strangers to themselves and people around them
-grayson - only man wearing jacket in rain and cold
-out with lads - laughing - nothing bothering you
-mens don't know when they are sad - not encouraged to be sensitive to themselves
-skin they build up - muscles, tattoos, bravado, banter
-fighting - peformance - MMA - release
-arrogant/selfish gene - average without these
-sacred idea of manhood - don't grip onto old role - let go
-The Death of A Working Man
-Shadow Boxing
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