Slot Machine focuses on the social tendency toward categorization as a short-hand method for placing people in convenient, easily defined packages so that it is not necessary to know anything beyond their most obvious features. The connections between that attitude and the prejudices which label people with some ethnic slur or stereotypical racial trait are not stressed or even mentioned but are clearly evident. With this as a kind of framework, Lynch directs his critique more specifically at the male-oriented, masculine supremist social construct which rates sports as the highest calling, places everything else in a descending hierarchy with the arts near the bottom, and encourages many types of behavior which are not only useless and destructive in a non-athletic context, but are likely to ruin everything that is valuable in the sport itself. The Brothers who are running the camp are a grotesque parody of...