We want to wade into the issue of female sports jounalists hanging out in male athletes dressing rooms. As you probably know, last Saturday the mouth that bores aka Don Cherry said that women should not be allowed in male dressing rooms cuz of all the nakedidity that goes on.
Normally we pay no attention to Mr. Cherry and his 1950’s perspective on the world but in this particular case there is a point to be made. The claim that the other side makes is that this is a matter of journalistic integrity and no journalist is there to ogle athletes of any kind, but instead to perform the job of journalism.
Okay fine.
If the matter is truly a case of journalistic integrity over crass sexual desire, then male reporters must also be in female athletes dressing rooms as they walk about naked etc. If that’s the case, if male journalists hang out with the naked female hockey players after a women’s tournament game then Don Cherry is, as usual, off his rocker on the subject.
But if the rules are different in this opposite but the same circumstance and female athletes have their nakedidity protected with boundaries and regulations that don’t currently exist the other way then Don Cherry is right. The same rules should apply for female journalists in male locker rooms. The journalistic integrity aspect of this argument goes out the door with the wet towels. There clearly isn’t any.
But we’ve never been sports journalists so don’t know which is true. Do you?
