Date: November 17th, 2009 4:16 PM Author: razzle-dazzle antidepressant drug electric furnace
"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 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 cooms, 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.""
Holy shit I can literally envision the hard on this guy was sporting when he wrote this
i like how he uses (on page 9) the penis to create a new theory of warfare:
"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."
so basically, we have war because people can't actually live up to their boasts about having 15" horsecocks.
Date: November 17th, 2009 4:25 PM Author: lilac vigorous wagecucks
I thought this would be some TTT's master's thesis, but the author is tenure track at the University of Toronto, and teaches in the "Sexual Diversity Studies program."
it kind of irritates me how the writers of these sorts of papers drag in way-overpowered thinkers as citations, and then draw absolutely ridiculous conclusions from their writings.
you may hate gilles deleuze, but there's no way in fuck he'd have come up with shit about how an endzone is an asshole trying to keep out a simulacra of a cock.
"it kind of irritates me how the writers of these sorts of papers drag in way-overpowered thinkers as citations, and then draw absolutely ridiculous conclusions from their writings."
it's like taking a jet engine and hooking it up to a series of step-down transformers and gears and rods until it functions as a motor for your pencil sharpener.
My favorite quote, while not as tawdry as the previous ones, came at the end of the paper.
"When, in the context of the philosophy of the limit, we consider the conventional pleasures of sport...we see the simulation of desire in the territorial project that transforms the puissance of the human connection into a pouvoir of dominance and submission. Competitive sport, therefore is a profoundly unethical way to organize desire."