Evangelical masculinity excluded men with disabilities and non-athletic men

Evidence

For some men, a wild, aggressive masculinity has always been untenable. One man with a physical disability recalls feeling that there was no place for him in the evangelicalism of the 2000s. If you weren’t “a sports or hunting fanatic in an evangelical church,” your position was marginal, as he put it. Another man, too, recounted that those who weren’t particularly athletic, who weren’t looking to “jump across ravines and climb rock walls” could feel like inauthentic men and second-class Christians. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 682

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to broader hierarchies of normative masculinity elsewhere in the author’s argument; echoes how purity culture and masculinity culture interlock.