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Homosexuality in Jiu Jitsu: Open-Minded or Openly Homophobic?

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PDF Download. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and mixed martial arts constitute two strongly overlapping, culturally influential communities composed mostly of men who enact a particular strain of masculinity through participation in grappling-based martial arts GBMA. Similar to all masculinity projects, grappling based martial arts participants are constrained by hegemonic forces shaping masculinities, particularly heteronomativity, machismo, female exclusion, and a marked interest and propensity toward violence.

This paper critically examines the strain of masculinity unique to GBMA drawing on psychoanalytic approaches and reveals it to be best understood as an overt manifestation of phallic masculinity that is extended toward the hypermasculine by a homoerotic-yet-homophobic tension predicated upon performative homosociality and symbolic homosexuality.

Specifically, GBMA masculinity can be understood as strict phallic masculinity expanded to include symbolic expressions of violence as a hegemonic masculinity-approved vent for repressed male-on-male homosexual desires and behavior in the absence of socially sanctioned opportunities for healthy male-on-male touch. An understanding of this dynamic within GBMA reveals its parallels with marginalized homosexual masculinities, and offers the potential to shift it toward greater openness, honesty, and inclusion.

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu BJJ and mixed martial arts MMA are two overlapping, culturally influential communities composed mostly of men who enact a defined strain of masculinity through grappling based martial arts henceforth, GBMA. Because of its profoundly gendered nature, the cultural impact of GBMA masculinity on marginalized masculine identities and women mirrors gay problematic and toxic trendline for masculinity as it manifests in society.

Mixed martial arts contains its own unique subculture, equipped with a variety of gendered values, norms, and attitudes which have developed over time. This masculine subculture erupted from a fairly recent surge beginning c. National and international competitions, tens of millions of participants worldwide, and the famous Ultimate Fighting Championship UFC acted in concert to promote these sports and their competitors to unprecedented status.

Indeed, the UFC alone represents a multi-billion-dollar brand in an even larger industry with tremendous commercial and popular appeal. These sports and the masculinities they promote jiu therefore increasingly influential to men, masculinity, and masculinity discourses in contemporary culture.

The character of masculinity within GBMA, then, has significant cultural importance. If correct, the purpose of this investigation is therefore ultimately to expose and disrupt the forces that constrain GBMA masculinity and prevent it from finding a healthier, nonviolent, inclusive masculine expression.

It is jiu hope that this analysis is not merely explanatory but that it extends into the realm of praxis by potentially creating brazilians for a more inclusive and diverse GBMA cultural environment cf. English In particular, I therefore aim to identify and unravel the myriad and unique factors within GBMA masculinity that evoke in participants so much interest in simulated brazilian and exclusion of that which they do not deem sufficiently masculine cf.

Hirose and Pih jitsu Throughout its history, martial arts participants have formed a unique subculture that is distinctly masculine, even hyper-masculine, and often performatively toxic. The so-called warrior class represents a cultural archetype of masculinity and many discourses in masculinity are defined either in reference or deference to it Channon b.

Because they have traditionally excluded women, these microcultures have developed a concentrated and unique masculinity whose practices and discourses define many martial arts programs of today. Within that broader martial canon, grappling in the West has its roots in the Greek tradition.