How to Deal with Toxic Social Hierarchies in Sports

I was in drama club during high school and, oh boy, did it teach me much more than how to read basic sheet music and an eight count. I like to think I give everybody a fair shot when it comes to how I feel about them, but a lot of the things that went down were really over the line. Our club was kind of culty—after every show, we would have a cast party and initiate new members. In theory, this could be passed off as a light-hearted activity but in practice, it was weaponized to establish a toxic social atmosphere and completely redundant hierarchy.