Sport and Identity: Inclusion/Exclusion Flashcards
Hegemonic Masculinity
The dominate and culturally idealised form of masculinity
What year was homosexuality outlawed in NZ and then when the law was passed again and when same sex marriage was allowed
1840
1986
2013
$ spent on LGBTQ jobs in sport
$150 million
How did the All Blacks acknowledge diversity
tops when stretched showed a rainbow
Different Sexual Orientations
exists in every race, nation, and social class etc and occurs at different times and levels
% of people that have experienced homophobia in sport
78%
Reading: Men’s Netball (2)
- designed to emphasise femininity
- ‘there is something weird about seeing a bloke wearing bib’
What 5 thing make sport unique in relation to LGBTQIA
- type of sport and sexuality
- physical contact and viewing
- naked bodies
- traveling (sharing rooms)
- relationships between players and coaches
Stat that highlights that sport isn’t a safe space for gay men
10 or less professional male athletes come out as gay during their career, women are more likely to come.
Reading: (The Most Level Playing Field) Kenya Running (3)
- Intense and Concentrated competition and standards and numbers of elite athletes
- genetics and environmental factors
- modern training and lots of funding
Reading: Maori/Pacific Sport and Wellbeing (2)
- maori songs, prayers and language
- traditional games to promote fitness and wellbeing
- Family and church
Race: Denial of Access
black denied to play sport
tiger woods is an example of this being banned from a gold course until 1997 and this gold course to this day only has 9 black members
Race: Stereotypes (4)
- swimming, claims were made that they couldn’t swim due to the pores in their skin
- can’t perform on a cold day
- blacks being compared to machines and beasts/animals rather then other humans
even though there was no science behind this people still believed it
What did Julian Starkey say about diverse athletes and participation rates dropping off
when athletes start to become more specific at one event most blacks chose sprinting and hurdling (sport they are believed to be good at) the blacks are all good at running because they have to get away from the burglaries
Stacking
positional segregation based on social factors vs skill and performance
in other words this is when an athletes chose to participate in a sport they should be good at rather then what they are actually good at
Stacking in NFL
those in charge tend to be white QB
speed postions tend to be black people - running back
Blacks and their genetic edge
“Blacks have the genetic edge” these comments would now be considered racist as their is no link between genetics and race
Athletics records by ‘race’ (stats from the reading) % or people in the world that are black and % of top running times that are from African Origin
- 1/8 people in the world are black but 70% of the top times held by runners are of African origin
% top times are from those with ancestry from West Africa
95
All 100m finalists in the 100m have been from 1984-2016 West African Decent. Based on there population numbers what are the chances of this happening
0.(34 0)1
USC Track Coach Brookes Johnson
“…. blacks that are superior in some areas and therefore inferior in other areas”
this refers to hegemony masculinity and stacking
Intersectionality
Understanding identity in the relation to different ‘vectors’ of oppression and how these influence the nature and degree of oppression.
Pigmentation and Race
do not equal each other
Race Limitations (3)
- people confuse race with culture and biology
- never been a study on comparing black and whites genetics and performance
- only 10% of gene pool is different
% of Americans with Black and then White Ancestry
10%
75%
Pacific is Complex as has
22,000 islands and 1200 languages spoken
6 Things in the Pacific health views
- culture
- family
- physical
- spiritual
- mental
- other
How Pacific people think of sport (4)
- anything counts, even playing with kids for example
- keeps kids of the Street
- bringing people together
- good health and fitness
Pacific Athletes and their opportunities (2)
- they see it as their ticket out for a better life
- migration: moving elsewhere and becoming citizens to play there
Pacific Athletes Challenges (3)
- more likely to play through pain as if they get injured they could lose money and stop providing for their family back home
- being away from home
- being called “natural athletes”
Stereotypes and Racial Representation
strong muscular body, aggressive.
Scalping Tickets
buying tickets then selling them for a higher price to desperate people