[OPINION] Why I hated basketball: On Carlos Yulo’s Olympic wins and gendered sports

Basketball has been symbolic of the Filipino macho. So I hope Caloy's win will change how Filipinos view gender in sports.

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Hindi lang puro basketball,” wrote historian Kristoffer Pasion, echoing many others who wrote the same sentiment in a variety of ways. Like the actress Agot Isidro, who posted: So pwede na ba natin bawasan ang sponsorship at funding ng basketball at idagdag na lang sa gymnastics, boxing, and weightliftingWhy single out basketball? I think there’s an unspoken reason why, and I proceeded to share my thoughts, and my story, on X in a long thread. Within mere hours, the post blew up.

The number of responses of course are directly proportional to the acknowledged popularity of the sport — the feeling that in our culture, we are surrounded by this great and unquestioned worship of basketball , that for me to write this post, I have articulated what so many people have felt but could not say — perhaps for fear of backlash, and perhaps for fear of confirming for others what they wanted hidden.

Here is the turn: it has also been mostly basketball with male athletes we have seen popularized. And because these male athletes are on TV, they have become the equivalent of gods. We worship at the altar of the sport, and consequently we have also begun worshipping — and reflecting — the gods that play it. And then it happened: the sport somehow became closely connected, semiotically speaking, with an idea of Filipino manhood.

Another person told me that a new male employee at the company he worked in casually asked him to describe himself in terms of positions in a basketball game — whether he was a point guard, or a shooting guard, or whatnot — and he knew that the question was loaded to test him whether he was “man enough” to know what basketball was.

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