-operation nemesis
-85% of all crime - 92% drug related offences - 96% of muggings = men
-two rival groups of males - cops and criminals - battling it out for control of turf
-man on man conflict
-men - naive - easily exposed - proving themselves to get up in pecking order
-world of crime, squalor and hierachy
-showing off
-kill people - just to get bigger person to like them
-pressure to be dominant
-world of rank - intense emotional need for status
-'little kev'
-look up to tupac - died with his gun
-'takes a man to end a life'
-tanhouse vs digmoor
-loyalty to one another
-no fathers - 'make yourself a man'
-pace about - prowling cats
-old fashioned views on masculinity - real man = provides for family
-loyalty, honour, pride
-strip away northface and weed = band of young, medival nobles
-confused about values they think they're fighting for
-carrying knife - protection
-look after where you live - family living there
-compulsion in DNA to protect - primitive civilization -
-no clarity about what a man should do - stepping up to plate in his mind
-'no real men in skem' - women - real man knows how to protect a woman
-younger lads - vandalizing - nothing for them to do
-see who's gonna be in what gang - son frightens her to death
-fathers day card from child
-skem - landscape of lost bewildered maleness in the raw
-respect and status - dog sniffing arses moment
-ftp - fck the police
-cowboys and indians game
-tragedy and bravado
-commit crimes to support family - any means neccessary
-provider
-lifestyle - money they make
-male needs for status, respect and belonging
-proud, strong, never chance - young forever - arrested development
- age 40 - only just become man
-embarrassment and shame - powerlessness -no control over lives - try control tiny microcosm
-'king of nowhere' - humiliating
-masculinity at rawest - primal
-young men - lost - no ritual or system
-The Digmoor Tapestry
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