I'm thinking there's a fun research project here, if someone hasn't done it already: measure (this is a sticky but fun part) community enthusiasm or buy-in or financial support or something for a variety of extracurricular (or quasi-curricular activities at American high schools. My hypothesis would be that the more the activities embody direct competition, ritualized violence (or the real thing), and interpersonal domination, the greater the support will be, with men's dominance/aggression sports getting far more support than women's. Further, I suspect both of these effects will vary regionally, with parts of the US that have had high violence rates since forever (one explanation is Nisbett & Wilson's #HonorCulture hypothesis), showing the effect more strikingly.

There would be a few factors to control for, as well. I'd need to work with some people who have experience in this to know what those would be.

I would predict that, on average, the ranking of support etc. would be something like

Highest ranking: direct quasi-violent competition sports:

Next: more stylized violence/domination

Next-to-lowest: team competitions without direct confrontations

Lowest: Individual competitions, no direct confrotation/competition

I'm probably missing tons of stuff, but this is an interesting #research idea