The character of James is a form of wish fulfilment, he says. And that's what Mungo really experiences.” And they can feel very tribal in that way. “But sometimes when you divide people at a schooling age, when you then support or legitimise it by soccer or football and say one team is for Protestants and one team is for Catholics, then the young men can feel very divided. “If you were to cut these men through the centre there, there really is no difference socio economically, or certainly how religiously observant they are, because it was actually becoming a very secular city by that point. The tribalism in east Glasgow was a way for young men to forge some kind of identity, he says. He's a very sensitive, introspective, young man and yet he finds himself having to do these things against his will.” But I still got caught up in a construct and a group that needed me to be part of that. “And I actually had no interest in any of those things. “I was thinking about my own relationship with masculinity and how I often had to perform my own masculinity as a young man to fit in with the tribe, to be as macho as the other men around me whether … fighting or chasing girls or playing football. Mungo’s journey towards masculinity echoes Stuart’s, he says. And instead, he meets another young man called James and the develop first of friendship, and then it becomes something more.” “He's a little bit of my love song to very sensitive, kind, gentle men and he doesn't want to be the type of man that either his sister or his brother expect of him.
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