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"but Mumma, why isn't player x playing in today's game? He's my favourite." It's a fair question for a kiddo to ask and the discussion centred around how you discuss the idea that little Billy's football idol is a sexual predator. How do parents explain it? At what age does this conversation become reasonable?

Not everyone grows up with their dad around, but what's worse is not everyone gets to have a male role model, very few are as lucky as I have been in my life to have three. Not to mention the uncles who supported our family, and the other amazing men in my life who I have been exposed to.

We need Pride in sport because homophobic slurs are still hurled on fields around the country. We need Pride in sport because people are "othered" and excluded from clubs for who they are, and who they love.

This article contains reference to sexual violence, sexual assault, trafficking, and a few more troubling topics, reader discretion is advised. Terry Gene Bollea died last week. You, like many, may be wondering who that is and why you should care. He was a racist, proudly self proclaimed, as well as a right winger and overall nutter. More importantly for this ranticle, he was Hulk Hogan, wrestling icon and one time portrayer of Thunderlips in Rocky I. The passing of Terry th