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Bengals Whitworth Calls Out Locker Room Double-Standard
10-21-2015, 07:22 PM
You can see the same double standard on Buzzfeed's front page on any given day.
"24 Horrible Ways Women Are Objectified And Sexualized"
followed immediately by
"Channing Tatum's Abs Will Make You Thirsty"
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Bengals Whitworth Calls Out Locker Room Double-Standard
10-21-2015, 09:39 PM
They've been talking about this 20+ years. From female reporters being granted full access to men's locker rooms, to this. AFAIC, unless the players have it stated in their contract that they must provide interviews to reporters in the locker room, then all media should be prohibited from entering.
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Bengals Whitworth Calls Out Locker Room Double-Standard
10-21-2015, 09:42 PM
I think he is wrong to compare a locker room to an office space. As an athlete he's an entertainer and therefore they shouldn't expect the same rights to privacy being a public. figure. A small price to pay for having what many consider a dream job.
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Bengals Whitworth Calls Out Locker Room Double-Standard
10-21-2015, 10:29 PM
The press have become like roaches for athletes. Before they had a mutual respect and more patience was made towards players and space but now with ADHD media needing BS content quickly they encroach further and further into players private space.
Women press also encroach into the male locker rooms and nobody likes to think Suzie from the Boston paper isn't getting moist from seeing Tom Brady or Gronk with no towel on. They would not even let men be in that position with the roles reversed but some how for women press its fine even though many female sports press bang and marry athletes all the time.
I agree 100% with calling out the double standards. The WNBA has a no entry policy for its lockerooms (but also no media who covers them lol), so why can't the men? There is a lot of BS with women sports and tennis brought alot up with how women got heat breaks during a heat wave and the men did not. Women were also allowed shade breaks and the men did not get any. The men complained that if they all.compete ...and get laid the same... The. The rules should be universal and either men get the breaks also during heat waves or you scrap them all together. Of course the woman moaned.
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Bengals Whitworth Calls Out Locker Room Double-Standard
10-21-2015, 10:30 PM
Heard they're gonna interview rousey naked in her locker room after her next fight.
Oh, they're not? Why's that?
Whitworth Is 100% right.
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Bengals Whitworth Calls Out Locker Room Double-Standard
10-21-2015, 10:37 PM
I appreciate you pointing out that the pun was intended.
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Bengals Whitworth Calls Out Locker Room Double-Standard
10-21-2015, 11:00 PM
Athletes are now beholden to the intensive public eye within the context of what they do publicly is more scrutinized. Their DUI's, twitter fights, and altogether PUBLIC behavior is under the microscope. Not what happens in private spaces. And it doesn't matter what management or entitled female "reporters" believe, a place where you shower is ultimately a private place and no one should be forced to strip naked in front of anyone who makes them uncomfortable. That's what the Bengals player is saying. These people are not medical professionals. Their job should afford them the opportunity to gawk at naked players who have so say in who or who may not be allowed in the locker room.
Would you be OK with Gold's or any gym allowing self-important, entitled, feminist, cuntish women full reign of your locker room?
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Bengals Whitworth Calls Out Locker Room Double-Standard
10-22-2015, 05:49 PM
How many times has reporters in the locker room been an issue? Maybe it's a little irritating to the players, but they don't seem too terribly bothered by cameramen.
You'd think that if the players had any huge problems with it, they would have spoken up about it by now.
If anything, the camera man fucked up by not panning the camera and holding the interview over to the right somewhat, where I presume a wall was.
Edit: This Whitworth guy isn't going to get anywhere by calling out the media double standard. If a campaign was going around for reporters to get in to women's locker rooms for post-game interviews using the precedent that both male and female reporters can walk in and out of men's locker rooms no problem (women's basketball games might actually get an audience then, lol), then one of two positive outcomes would have to happen.
Either the backlash would be big enough that it could kick them out of men's locker rooms, too.
Or we get to see some fine asses and titties and women's sports suddenly becomes relevant.
Might as well play to win, instead of whining after a loss. Let's get reporters into women's locker rooms.
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Bengals Whitworth Calls Out Locker Room Double-Standard
10-23-2015, 07:33 AM
Reminds me of this "Any given sunday" scene
I'm one of the luckiest man alive, nothing in my life has been easy...
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Bengals Whitworth Calls Out Locker Room Double-Standard
10-24-2015, 02:47 AM
So you're telling me I should become an Eastern European women's tennis reporter who specializes in post game sauna interviews? Sounds like a good gig to me.