Rhetorical Analysis Of Jock Culture

In American society men are suppose to be the stronger, more physical beings. There are those two guys through school, the jocks and the nerds. So a journalist from Queens, New york analyzes on a piece in a special sports issue of The Nation, a magazine focused around politics. In Jock Culture, longtime sportswriter Robert Lipsyte personal analyzes the effect jock culture has on our society. He argues all the things wrong with having jock culture, and what impacts are left because of it. Lipsyte makes claims like, “Jock Culture is a distortion of sports. It can be physically and mentally unhealthy, driving people apart instead of together.” He uses his past experiences to explain to the audience the problems involved with stereotyping jocks

In writing in one of the oldest political magazines, Robert claims extraordinary ideas on Jock Culture. With his audience being surround by readers of politics, his argument is more in favor of those types of people you may classify as the pukes. By playing with there emotions, Robert tries to pursue that Jocks are the bad guys and they have a bad influence. Robert uses these emotions to show that kids are being influenced while they’re young, pressured by parents and coaches into “bullying, violence, and the commitment to a win-at-all attitude the can kill a soul” (307). By choosing to attack on kids he really pokes under some people's skin, like he does most of the article. In the article Lipsyte attacks the effects of sports on Jocks, making harsh statements like, “no wonder there are so many abusive athletes, emotionally stunted ex-athletes, and the resentful onlookers. What makes this appeal so strong is that using emotion for this argument is the best way to expose the way Jock Culture is

Lipstyes main argument is analyzing the issues that are formed because of jock culture and along with those analyze came cause and effects. For example, in this short paragraph, “Games have become our main form of mass entertainment. Winners of those games become our examples of permissible behavior, even when that includes cheating, sexual crimes or dog torturing. And how does that lead us to the cheating, the lying, the amorality in our lives outside the white lines? It’s not hard to connect the moral dots from the field house to the White House.” Lipsyte analyses how games are becoming a problem, shows the causes of behaviors that are involved, and shows the effect is has on our personal