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This dialogue is taken from one of many conversations conducted by Tamar and Efrat — two researchers of Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem FC (HKJ)2 fans — about their experience as women in the fandom field (FF).3 During this conversation, Tamar expressed a certain frustration about the feeling that because of her otherness as a new fan in her sixties, she will always be viewed as an outsider in the Katamonian FF. Nodding her head, Efrat signalled to Tamar that she had had similar experiences and told her she also felt she would never be considered an authentic fan within the hyper-masculine FF. The gaze, the social eye, they both agreed, is untrained in seeing a woman in the manly, crowded, sweaty and adrenaline-drenched FF.
Tamar: ‘Even though I feel Katamon is like a home for me, I will never be seen as an “authentic fan”’
Efrat: ‘Your fandom will never be your native tongue. You might learn the language but you will always have an accent.’ 1
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Regev, D., Rapoport, T. (2016). To Pass and Not To Pass. In: Schwell, A., Szogs, N., Kowalska, M.Z., Buchowski, M. (eds) New Ethnographies of Football in Europe. Football Research in an Enlarged Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137516985_8
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