During the summer of 2022, Hockey Canada faced a reckoning regarding its outright denial of the ways in which gender-based violence is a part of hockey culture. This paper shares data from a study that involved qualitative interviews with semi/professional men’s ice hockey players regarding their resistance to the expectations of hypermasculinity in hockey culture. Hypermasculinity is the elevated status of traits that promote violence, stoicism, and aggression and that privileges the locker-room code of silence. Participants spoke about the dangers of playing through pain as well as the precarity of their roles on their teams due to policing strategies that put the team before anything else. The participants were less direct about the ways sexism and misogyny are used as a means to improve team bonding and performance, yet stories of sexism and misogyny were riddled throughout the data. Our analysis brings together Bourdieu’s concept of misrecognition to gain understanding as to why sexism remains/ed silent and Freire’s conscientization to promote more dialogic encounters to clear the air of sexism in men’s ice hockey.

2022 年夏天，加拿大冰球协会面临一场清算，因为它公然否认基于性别的暴力是冰球文化的一部分。本文分享了一项研究的数据，该研究涉及对半职业男子冰球运动员进行定性访谈，了解他们对冰球文化中超男子气概的期望的抵制。超男子气概是指宣扬暴力、坚忍和攻击性以及更衣室沉默准则的特征的崇高地位。参与者谈到了在痛苦中打球的危险，以及由于将球队放在第一位的监管策略，他们在球队中的角色不稳定。参与者不太直接了解性别歧视和厌女症如何被用作改善团队凝聚力和绩效的手段，但性别歧视和厌女症的故事在整个数据中充斥着。我们的分析结合了布迪厄的误识概念，以了解为什么性别歧视保持沉默，以及弗莱雷的良知，以促进更多的对话接触，以消除男子冰球中的性别歧视。