Young Victorian rugby players involved in the “silver bullet” training to stamp out homophobia reported the number of slurs heard afterwards actually increased.
Sensitivity training sessions designed to stamp out homophobia in sport have been found to have no effect on team attitudes or behaviour.British Journal of Sports Medicine
Lead researcher Erik Denison – a member of the Behavioural Science Laboratory at Monash – helped design the best-practice intervention, and had high hopes for its success.The program was authored by a crack team of researchers, in consultation with experts from the LGBTQI+ community. It was even delivered to players at 13 teenage rugby union teams in Victoria by a handful of Super Rugby stars from the Melbourne Rebels.
It makes sense. Research shows that boys are first exposed to homophobic language around eight years old – wimp and pussy later becoming homo and fag – but that such abuse isn’t spurred by true homophobia so much as garden variety toxic masculinity. Gay slurs are basically used to conform and bond, sometimes to insult or bully, but mostly for boys to signal membership of the group. “It’s so normalised,” says Denison. “It’s almost like wallpaper.
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