Question 5

Discuss the following Flash game in terms of ideology and hegemony. Define each term, and then explain them through the game (100-150 words).

http://gamescene.com/The_Urinal_Game.html

This game in terms of ideology and hegemony is that a man cannot use a bathroom urinal near or around another man. Ideology is the goals and aspirations that one has set for their life and their way of looking and interpreting things. Hegemony is the construction and maintenance of the ideology. It takes from religion, family, education, and social environment, the things that influence the ideology. The game focuses on the ideology and the hegemony because it shows how because of the hegemony of culture and religion it changes the ideology. A man feels that because of culture he cannot pee near another man because it would seem gay and that you must be far another guy or pretend you no longer have to go. The hegemony effects the ideology and the idea of peeing near another man is gay.