I think boys tend to get objectified as little macho men too,mostly via the national sports obsession with its connection to agression and warfare and dim witted patriotism. I happened to be visiting a household with cable service this weekend( I have never had it). We were watching the NCAA games. The commercials for the military use the identification with athletic “heroes” to recruit people to also become “heroes”, like the atheletes, by joing the navy, army, AF, marines. Yeah right, that will do it.
We had one dad on our soccer team whose kid wanted to sign up for after school gardening. The father told my wife it was too sissified/underacheiver for him.
I like sports but I think it is completely blown out of proportion.
There is an article on in a recent Christian Science Monitor on America’s obsession with sports . I think they treated the phenomena with kid gloves.
