Gendered Relations And Masculinity Is Influenced By Football

Gendered institutions influence everyone in a different way, but for the most part football influenced me the most as an individual. After locker room talks and before and after practices and football games, made me realize how gendered relations and masculinity is influenced by football. Like Messner mentions, â€Å"gender identity not as a ‘thing’ that people ‘have’ but as a process of construction that develops, and changes as a person interacts with the social world.† Football has always been engraved in being a male dominant sport due to the aggressiveness and the physicality of the sport so the majority of those initially involved with football is constantly trying to prove one s dominance in an act of masculinity. Throughout high school and the majority of my life football was a big influence on my gender. The biggest impact on me was during my junior year of high school, the fall of 2012. I was seventeen years old. Football made me and fellow teammates as masculine as an individual may be due to the game and all the things that you become accustomed to through football throughout one season. Playing football and all the time spent with my fellow teammates influenced me with the basic things in becoming masculine: men get girls, men are big and strong, men never show emotions, and men are always the dominant one. While I was in high school this was the way in which I acted to be masculine. You learn to not show weakness in front of teammates, because one might think youShow MoreRelatedAnth1321 Words   |  6 Pagesones environment, and is heavily influenced by the binary categories of â€Å"male† and â€Å"female† and heteronormativity. Even within non-normative spheres, these binary divisions appear, which segregate groups of individuals depending on where they fall within the spectrum. Travestis do no identify as females, but they carry out their lives as women, and have a special attachment to femininity. This identity is very complicated because it disrupts the current gendered dimorphic structure, which is inRead MoreMasculinity in the Media3136 Words   |  13 PagesMasculinity in Media This research looks at the association of masculinity with violence, racism, power and the objectification of women, which has been around since early civilization. This study also shows how these concepts are still evident today in the media. Masculinity in the media is portrayed as muscular, violent, angry, aggressive, dominant, and warrior like. The rhetoric in media, as it relates to masculinity, has influenced the amount of violence in the world. The associationRead MoreSocial Construction Of Gender And Free Flow Play9588 Words   |  39 Pageswas then compared and contrasted to identify any differences the types of play. Data was analysed through thematic analysis for both the group interview and the drawings. The results of the interviews identified 5 key themes: 1) girl-gendered type play 2) boy gendered-type play 3) perceptions on children’s chosen play 4) gender differences in play 5) toys at home. The results from the drawings analysis gave no further result. Gender differences were found during free-flow play. The social constructionRead MoreMasculinity in the Philippines12625 Words   |  51 Pagesphilippine studies Ateneo de Manila University †¢ Loyola Heights, Quezon City †¢ 1108 Philippines Philippine Commonwealth and Cult of Masculinity Alfred W. Mccoy Philippine Studies vol. 48, no. 3 (2000): 315–346 Copyright  © Ateneo de Manila University Philippine Studies is published by the Ateneo de Manila University. Contents may not be copied or sent via email or other means to multiple sites and posted to a listserv without the copyright holder’s written permission. Users may download and printRead MoreOrganisational Theory230255 Words   |  922 PagesContents ix Level 3: ‘We are a people-centred organization’ Level 4: The world of the management guru The human relations school as an example of neo-modernist organization theory How ‘human relations’ begins What is the human relations school? The human relations school develops The Hawthorne Studies as a classic example of applied organizational research within the human relations tradition The Relay Assembly Test Room The Bank Wiring Observation Room Research and the development of neo-modernist