Renowned Canadian philosopher Dr. Brian Pronger describes his research in the paper "Outta My Endzone: Sport and the Territorial Anus":
>Almost all competitive sports are segregated along the lines of gender. This means that the practice of competitive sport itself can have homoerotic dimensions: the contact of the playing field, the spectacle of the partially clad body, the steamy environment of the showers and locker room. I have previously written positively about the covert homoeroticism of men's sport, suggesting that it affords opportunities for homoerotic vision and contact that are desirable not only for gay-identified boys and men but also for those whose homoerotic imaginations have not become explicit, integrated aspects of their lives.
>In The Arena of Masculinity (Pronger, 1990), I argued that men's sport allows men and boys to exclude women and girls from their all-male environments, permits them to play with each other's bodies, to surround themselves with naked men in the showers and locker rooms, to enjoy that all-male contact, without suffering the vilification that usually comes from the open acknowledgment and pursuit of masculine erotic contact, the stigma of "being homosexual."
>I also argued that the well-known homophobia of competitive sport serves an important structural sociocultural function. It prevents the implicit homoeroticism of competitive sport, the pleasures of male bodies playing with each other, from proceeding to explicit sexual expression. That is to say, it maintains the panoptic line that must not be crossed if the orthodox masculine - which is to say the patriarchal heterosexual - credentials of competitive sport are to be maintained. In other words, the homophobia of competitive sport allows men to play with each other's bodies and still preserve their patriarchal heterosexist hegemony; they can have their (beef)cake and eat it, too.
I used to have to walk past the football coach's office all the time at university. There were always three or four guys hanging out in there sucking up to him instead of chasing the hot women all over the campus. The entire cliche that the football team guys are chads who get the hot wimminz is horse shit. They hang out with the coach or with each other and shun the hot rich girls.
>I will argue that competitive sport... is embedded in the masculine colonizing will to conquer the space of an "other" while simultaneously protectively enclosing the space of the self... In sex, it shows in the desire to penetrate the holes of others and the desire to resist having the same happen to oneself. In competitive sport, it shows in the offensive desire to get points for oneself by taking them from an opponent and to defensively prevent the challenger from doing it to oneself, or one's team.
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>It goes without saying that a limp, shriveled penis is not effective in simulating the domineering masculine organization of desire. Given that no penis can live up to its phallic boast, no matter how swollen it gets, phallocentrism finds other ways to territorialize the body: innocuously, possibly, in body building, and more despotically in the territorial violence of warfare and competitive sport, for instance.
>Less boastful than the phallus, perhaps because of its embarrassing vulnerability or even more terrifying potential openness, is the phallus's companion, the protective side of phallic desire, the side that can repel or admit others into the space carved out by phallic aggression. The simulacrum of this other side of phallic desire, I suggest, is the asshole. It is the tightly closed orifice of the phallic conqueror, as well as the (perhaps) reluctantly opened orifice of the phallically conquered. Masculine desire is thus produced in the play of phallus and asshole. It simulates desires as both homoerotic and homophobic: homoerotic in its preoccupation with phallic intent, homophobic in its resistance to penetration. Masculine desire protects its own phallic production by closing openings, preeminently the anus and mouth; but just as important by closing eyes, ears, touch, smell, mind, spirit - in short, any vulnerability to the phallic expansion of others. ...
Willie Banks robbed banks because that's where the money was, if you want to find a pedo look hard at teachers and scout leaders. Hardbody homos aren't stupid.
>Since one's participation in competition indicates one's commitment to phallic potency and one's defeat shows one's anal vulnerability and therefore phallic impotence, there is humiliation in defeat, in being penetrated by one's competitor. In his novel, Ancient Evenings, the infatuated student and lover of masculinity, Norman Mailer (1983), describes the humiliation of penetration, when the character Meni is penetrated by a male god: "The last of my pride was gone. . . . For I have never known more shame in the days that followed. . . . I was not like other men, although I felt more of a woman" (pp. 288-289). Being opened to the penetrations of phallic desire is feminizing, which in patriarchal culture is humiliating.
>Because the 'insult' of penetration is part and parcel of every competitive game, there are psychological strategies that help participants weather the denigration. It is called 'being a good sport.' Which is to say that one acknowledges defeat in the game, while refusing to acknowledge one's manifest feminization in the same. The expression, 'take defeat like a man,' means: maintain emotional closure; don't let it show that your phallic esteem, your phallic self-worth, has been penetrated, that your emotional vulnerabilities have been probed; there's always another game, another chance to show your phallic and anal power.
>Indeed, the ultimate defeat, which is to say the ultimate feminization, is to be seen crying at one's defeat - the only sport where such emotion is tolerated is the most feminine of sports, figure skating. Another sportsmanlike strategy is to deflect attention from one's defeat, from one's diminution, by admiring the phallic skill of the victor. This valorizes the phallic project by de-emphasizing the anal violation.
Jayden Edwards
so baseball is the less gay of sports? what about bowling or something?
Brody Nelson
No shit. All contact sports are just excuses for disgusting homo shit.
Henry Johnson
It goes farther back in history, gladiators, Caesar's army of faggots that wiped out the "300" Based chads fappin to traps fappin
Eli Scott
I was never a homo the six years i played football
12 years of social isolation have changed my porn viewing habits, but still not gay, jus suspicious of black neighborhoods
Grayson Foster
Dr. Pronger cites real-life examples of this theory:
>Desire and competitive sport - a nexus that is usually ignored. It is seldom a focus of the sport media, except where there are sex scandals, such as the recently publicized homosexual subculture in Canadian boys' and men's ice hockey: National Hockey league player Sheldon Kennedy, fine example, has revealed that when he was a young man playing in the Canadian Hockey League, he submitted more than 300 times to the sexual demands of his coach, Graham James, who subsequently has been jailed for the offense. It has been widely reported in the media that numerous boys exchanged sexual favors for hockey tickets and other perks with employees of Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens. It has also been revealed that there is widespread sexual violence in hockey club initiations. And the regular sexual exploitation of women who follow professional and semiprofessional male athletes in many competitive sports - in hockey, they are called puck-bunnies - is now frequently cited (Robinson. 1998).
You may not like the truth, but that doesn't make it false.
Carter Harris
This is by far the gayest post i have ever read in my life. Perhaps even the gayest thing period.
Bentley Kelly
This is literary cheesecake for faggots. How is this academic again?
Easton Mitchell
Fuck sakes everything is sex to these fucking retards
Elijah Nguyen
Hot
Camden Baker
I mean I don't disagree. Faggots talking about mens tight end and what not
Lincoln Green
so pedos, in canada, but this researcher will not call them out by name, just playful man boy sexual favors
