The Urinal Game

Ideology is, in simple terms, common sense. It is the guidelines and intrinsic beliefs of a person or group of people. Hegemony describes the hierarchy established and enforced by various institutions. Hegemony exists in the workplace, in educational contexts, within religious institutions, in families, in prison, in almost every aspect of daily life. The Urinal Game exemplifies a common ideology and the existence of hegemony in our society. Of the entire game, the answer explanations say the most about ideology and hegemony. They explain a specific and complex ideology of which urinal is correct to use. The explanations enforce a homophobic hegemony through their elaborations of the ideology. Both in the game and in the rest of everyday life, ideology and hegemony support and reify each other.