American sports, particularly football, are characterized as
being watched, encouraged, and activated by males who are parents or become a
father to a team. This is seen
throughout Remember the Titans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey_IYIKbH8Y
-Coach Boone begins the football season without respect; he
gains it by becoming the most masculine out of the team
-Coach
Yoast is defended as if he is the teams own father after the announcement of
the new coach
-This is
continued throughout the film: practices, conversations between coaches, games
-Once he
has asserted his masculinity, he is respected and loved
-Other father figures act as the mouthpiece for their
families or the society in general
-Fathers
speak for players
-Protests
by parents
-Fatherhood isn’t just seen as an acting out of masculinity;
it is seen as necessary to masculinity
- “You do
have a dad?” -Gerry-Without a father, a man cannot learn masculinity
-The role of father figures in the movie reinforces the idea
that sports in America are based on rough, masculine, male-dominated values
-Mothers
have little to no voice
-Yoast’s
daughter, with no mother figure, becomes an anomaly
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