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- From: Todd D Nelson <nelsont1@STUDENT.MSU.EDU>
- Subject: Re: CowPlop Fans
- In-Reply-To: <9301280440.AA00666@student1.cl.msu.edu>; from "Stephanie
- Fishkin" at Jan 27, 93 8:39 pm
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- > My reading of the football literature, and its symbolism, is that it is
- > an accepted means for the expression of ritual homosexuality and rape:
- > "The object of the game, simply stated, is to get into the
- > opponent's enzone while preventing the opponent from getting
- > into one's own enzone... [T]his is what is involved in male
- > verbal dueling. One wishes to put one's opponent down; to
- > "screw" him while avoid being screwed by him... The so-called
- > three-point stance involves bending over in a distinct stooped
- > position... and it does make one especially vulnerable to
- > attack from behind, that is, vulnerable to homosexual attack...
- > In symbolic terms, I am arguing that the end is a kind of
- > backside and the that the enzone is a kind of erogenous
- > zone...[I]n essence, American football is an adolescent
- > masculinity initiation ritual in which the winner gets
- > into the loser's endzone more time than the loser gets
- > into his!"
- > (From Into the Enzone for a Touchdown: A Psycoanalytic
- > Consideration of American Football. In A. Dundes (1980)
- > Interpreting Folklore. Bloomington: Indiana University Press)
- >
- >
- > Stephanie
- >
- Steph, (can I call you Steph? :) )
-
- Thanks for the psychoanalytic quote on what football symbolizes........I needed
- a laugh!
-
- Anti-Analytically,
-
- Todd
-