The Squared Circle of Domination: Combat Sports, Militarism, and the Patriarchal Body

I want to talk about martial arts or as we call them in the west “combat sports” I don’t mean the discipline, the community, the mental health benefits, the way your therapist probably told you kickboxing would help with your anxiety. I mean the thing the entire apparatus is organized around producing and celebrating: the moment someone loses. Not the t…