ABSTRACT
The League debuted on the cable channel FX in 2009 as a sitcom that features an ensemble cast of men and one woman who are part of a fantasy football league. The notion of hegemonic masculinity pervades scholarly analyses of masculinity since Sociologist R. W. Connell coined the term in 1995. The bromance is certainly one version of hegemonic masculinity that circulates widely in the twenty-first century and works to produce a version of masculinity that resonates with dominant assumptions about gender and sexuality. The mythopoetic men's movement of the 1990s sought to reconcile the sensitivity of the new male in homosocial spaces that tapped into something universal about masculinity. The notion of multiple masculinities and hegemonic masculinity in general is extremely threatening to those who identify with the Men's Rights movement, and by association with the retention of patriarchal power.
