The PBS documentary League of Denial discusses the normalization of violence and masculinity. The documentary goes on to talk about the NFL’s denial of the connection of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) and football. The NFL has been one of the United States leading representations in our cultures masculine ideologies. This men’s club view point of get back up and go back in, injuries be damned mentality, has allowed the NFL to keep the correlation of football head injuries mental health disease under wraps. If we look at this through a sociological lens, we would look at the role of social recognition has played in the idea that they can become wealthy, and idolized by millions. One of the most powerful sections of this documentary
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The Cultural Logic of Gendered Organization, we have discussed in many of our readings that the workplace is not gender neutral, that being said, with in the organization hierarchy heterosexual men carry all the power. This fact makes men feel uncomfortable when a man transitions into a women, but when a women transitions into a man, men almost feel like mentors(Schilt pg. 149) Individual Differences, “such as personality differences or differences in productivity”, and finally, gender bias (Schilt pg. (138). The Between-Group Differences, this ideology talks about the ability to pass and the gap between the before and after. In other word do you pass? Transitioning to the gender you prefer to be, seems to be a lot easier for FTM than MTF in society due to the ability to appear as that sex. According to Schilt, cultural norms about gender play a huge part in pass ability differentials, transmen seem to face less scrutiny than transwomen. (Schilt pg. 141). Part of the reason is the before and after of transition. Women have had the ability to wear men’s clothing to work without being judged, men are not afforded the same opportunity and can be penalized or even fired for wearing women’s clothing to
The Cultural Logic of Gendered Organization, we have discussed in many of our readings that the workplace is not gender neutral, that being said, with in the organization hierarchy heterosexual men carry all the power. This fact makes men feel uncomfortable when a man transitions into a women, but when a women transitions into a man, men almost feel like mentors(Schilt pg. 149) Individual Differences, “such as personality differences or differences in productivity”, and finally, gender bias (Schilt pg. (138). The Between-Group Differences, this ideology talks about the ability to pass and the gap between the before and after. In other word do you pass? Transitioning to the gender you prefer to be, seems to be a lot easier for FTM than MTF in society due to the ability to appear as that sex. According to Schilt, cultural norms about gender play a huge part in pass ability differentials, transmen seem to face less scrutiny than transwomen. (Schilt pg. 141). Part of the reason is the before and after of transition. Women have had the ability to wear men’s clothing to work without being judged, men are not afforded the same opportunity and can be penalized or even fired for wearing women’s clothing to