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The term hazing brings to mind the high-profile cases of physical or sexual violence and coercive alcohol consumption that often make the news, but the prevention book defines hazing more broadly as “any behavior expected to be associated with a humiliating, degrading, humiliating group.” , or risk, regardless of the person's willingness to participate.”

This includes actions that are routinely dismissed as tradition or pranks, such as degrading nicknames, forced singing in public, or wearing indecent clothing. Even singling out rookies by setting up equipment or doing laundry for senior players can be a form of hazing, according to University of Manitoba professor Jay Johnson, who began studying hazing in the 1990s.

“It has to do with a lot of what we now describe as toxic masculinity and having to prove yourself,” he said.

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