KINE 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Hegemonic Masculinity, Muscular Christianity, Heteronormativity

• School: York University
• Department: Kinesiology & Health Science
• Course: KINE 1000
• Professor: Hernan Humana

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(cid:1657)sport is a spa(cid:428)e (cid:468)or men(cid:1658) he(cid:469)emoni(cid:428) mas(cid:428)ulinit(cid:629) Heteronormative: assumes indi(cid:622)iduals are either mas(cid:428)uline males that desire (cid:623)omen, or (cid:468)eminine (cid:468)emales that desire men. Sport allo(cid:623)s men to (cid:427)e (cid:428)ompetiti(cid:622)e and dominate other pla(cid:629)ers. In(cid:622)ade other mens spa(cid:428)e, and steal (cid:468)rom them, (cid:623)hile e(cid:628)pressin(cid:469) (cid:469)entlemanl(cid:629) respe(cid:428)t (cid:468)or pri(cid:622)ate propert(cid:629) Promotes and (cid:428)ompromised spe(cid:428)i(cid:468)i(cid:428) mas(cid:428)uline (cid:468)eatures throu(cid:469)h the institution o(cid:468) sport. Out o(cid:468) (cid:428)onte(cid:628)t, a(cid:428)tions in sport (cid:428)an (cid:427)e taken as homopho(cid:427)i(cid:428). But (cid:427)e(cid:428)ause it"s in sport, not (cid:428)onsidered homopho(cid:427)i(cid:428) Sport rein(cid:468)or(cid:428)es he(cid:469)emoni(cid:428) mas(cid:428)ulinit(cid:629): males should (cid:427)e stron(cid:469), a(cid:469)(cid:469)ressi(cid:622)e and sel(cid:468)-dis(cid:428)iplined. Sti(cid:469)ma surroundin(cid:469) (cid:469)a(cid:629) people as (cid:623)eak, so(cid:468)t, unathleti(cid:428) and (cid:468)eminine. He(cid:469)emoni(cid:428) mas(cid:428)ulinit(cid:629) pre(cid:622)ents homose(cid:628)uals (cid:468)rom sho(cid:623)in(cid:469) aspe(cid:428)ts o(cid:468) (cid:427)ein(cid:469) stron(cid:469), a(cid:469)(cid:469)ressi(cid:622)e et(cid:428) Homopho(cid:427)i(cid:428) slurs normalized in sport to assert dominan(cid:428)e. (cid:428)oa(cid:428)hes use this lan(cid:469)ua(cid:469)e to moti(cid:622)ate pla(cid:629)ers. Sport is intended to produ(cid:428)e he(cid:469)emoni(cid:428) mas(cid:428)uline males. Homopho(cid:427)ia needed to maintain he(cid:469)emoni(cid:428) mas(cid:428)ulinit(cid:629) as dominant, a(cid:469)(cid:469)ressi(cid:622)e and heterose(cid:628)ual.