Maybe it’s just my part of the country then. Or maybe we’re talking about slightly different things? Around here the idea is that bogans (who will usually be examples of toxic masculinity themselves) are the only sort of people who have dogs like that.
Meanwhile, I’ve been attacked by way more fancy pants fuckin’ labradoodles and other middle class “pedigree” dogs than I ever have by anything I would call a “pit bull”
Well straight up I’ll just say I’m in Melbourne. And the type of people that own pitbulls are generally aligned by a specific trait; machismo.
There’s hundreds of breeds. Why own one of the few that has an extreme killing capacity compared to others? Never heard anyone be killed by a Pomeranian.
Usually still a classist angle to it. Over here in Aus they have a reputation for being the sort of dogs only bogans have.
Or here in germany where pitpulls are usually owned by neo-nazis and which tend to be let loose on kids too dark for their tastes.
I’m in Australia and I don’t agree that the narrative is classist. Tends to be toxic masculinity if anything.
It’s also generally framed as severity of outcome vs other dog attacks.
Maybe it’s just my part of the country then. Or maybe we’re talking about slightly different things? Around here the idea is that bogans (who will usually be examples of toxic masculinity themselves) are the only sort of people who have dogs like that.
Meanwhile, I’ve been attacked by way more fancy pants fuckin’ labradoodles and other middle class “pedigree” dogs than I ever have by anything I would call a “pit bull”
The only dog I have ever been actually terrified of was a Queensland heeler.
Well straight up I’ll just say I’m in Melbourne. And the type of people that own pitbulls are generally aligned by a specific trait; machismo.
There’s hundreds of breeds. Why own one of the few that has an extreme killing capacity compared to others? Never heard anyone be killed by a Pomeranian.