Productivity of Sport Participation for Differing Bodies
Channel: criticalpraxis
Date: 2012-10-16

Week 10 (10/15-10/19): Topic set by Steve Farias. In his book, Guyland, Michael Kimmel suggests that sports act as an affective moderator for men (assumed identity) folks. The implication here is that US American men are taught to suppress emotions and that sports offer a means of expressing emotions in a contextually productive way. What are your thoughts on this idea? Rather than default to a sport as good or bad binary, how might sports be productive and/or problematic? And for what bodies?