Yoga and male culture

[TxDoc]

Discovered today one of the new safety officers at work (also volunteer firefighter), is a real yoga practitioner for past 8 years. And he looks fit-wiry.

He reminisced about some other workplace experiences, in northern Alberta and B.C. in the oil exploration areas, where workplace was more cowboy male traditional dominant.

When some of the guys first found out he practiced yoga, they ostracized him. He had to prove his male "normality" to the cowboy-oil worker yahoos, by showing them he also did...judo and karate. And to make yoga more acceptable, he suggested to them: "Look if you want to meet women...."

Though things are less sharply male vs. female divided in a hostile way, it would be HIGHLY unusual to see guy(s) practicing yoga where we are at construction site.

Soccer is more the preferred game to chat or watch. Or hockey.

Interesting... I showed your post to my boyfriend that practices yoga, and he said that there are several guys in his yoga group. They are like 2/3 women and 1/3 men.
He also thought about the masculine and feminine sports, and decided that we must be a funny couple
He has always been into yoga, cycling, running, and triathlon. He does not like football, baseball, or any of the guy's sports...
I have always been mostly into martial arts and gymnastics, and cycling 'on the side'. And of course I love the football games...
Since we met ten years ago, I started to introduce him to martial arts, and he started to introduce me to yoga - so that we had more activities to do together.
So I guess now we have a mix of masculine and feminine sports in the household

[Crankin]

My husband doesn't really like traditional male sports either. We do watch baseball if we are home and it's on TV, but we don't plan anything around those sports. In fact, he's a pretty good baseball player, but gave up playing years ago. Same with golf. They both took too much time away.
I tried to get him into aerobics, but he hated it and there was no way I could ever play tennis with my eye hand coordination. It took a couple of years, but he secretly bought me cycling clothes, set up his old mt. bike for me, and said, "Out you go!"
Then I made him start x country ski and snow shoe with me.