The Team Room Test
Sometimes the content I share and frame here in the 30 Seconds blog lends itself to a long-form critique. Sometimes the content enrages me. Sometimes it motivates me.
Today’s left me WONDERING.
I wonder what the response percentages would look like in our team rooms if we put this graphic up -alongside a PollEverywhere type anonymous feedback mechanism- and asked “Have you seen these type of accounts in your feed” and “Do you follow accounts like this”.
I wonder what level of shock would hit coaching staff’s around the country when those percentages came back and they recognized just how immersed their guys’ daily scrolls are with this stuff.
I wonder how many coaches can self reflect on their own leadership style with things like “when shame is used as motivation” or “when masculinity is defined by dominance”.
I wonder how many players would connect the dots between experiencing their athletic eco systems and how often they “have their self worth defined only by…status” or “when you leave feeling angrier than before”.
I wonder how many conversations in the locker room of your program have “dating framed as a power game” or “women being positioned as the problem” in your male athletes lives.
And honestly?
What I suspect the answers to these five “wonders” might reveal makes me more resolute than ever in continuing to push for TeamsOfMen in every team room across the country.
Coach Prompts
If players answered anonymously, how much manosphere or rage-based content do you think would show up in your locker room?
Which “red flag” on this graphic is most normalized in sports spaces?
Are there ways your coaching environment unintentionally reinforces shame, dominance, or status-based worth?
Player Prompts
What kind of male influencer content shows up in your feed most often?
How does certain content leave you feeling after consuming it: more connected, more thoughtful…or angrier?
What messages about women, power, and masculinity are young men repeatedly absorbing online?
