Ryan is a college football player and notices that most of what it means to "be a guy" on the football team is to be explicitly heterosexual and to speak disparagingly about women. Ryan doesn't speak disparagingly about women, and though he is straight himself, he has a number of very close friends and even a few male house-mates who are Queer. He wants to stay on the football team but observes that his most meaningful relationships are often built outside of the strict gender norms of the highly-normative masculinity of the football field. Which forms of masculinity is Ryan experiencing a tension with an why?Explain

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Ryan is experiencing tension with two forms of masculinity Heteronormative Masculinity and Hypermasc... View the full answer