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Usually a site I like to turn to in the morning to find out the micro details of the lives of friends and family, such as what they have eaten and cooked in the last 24 hours or what bizarre behavior their pets have exhibited, Facebook in the pre-election months has been an endless hurling of political insults and damnations exchanged among people with whom I have otherwise enjoyed easy social banter. Thank goodness I don't have to write about the election, I thought. Thank goodness I have my sports column. Thank goodness I do not have to chime in on the political circus assaulting us at every turn. But as a coach, athlete, and activist, I can't let a blanket condemnation like that about locker rooms pass without comment. Mr. Trump, you wouldn't know what goes on in a locker room if a jockstrap snapped you in your face. Sadly, despite the protests of several professional athletes this week, seriously sick shit sometimes does happen in locker rooms. Former Penn State football assistant Jerry Sandusky raped little boys in team locker rooms and showers. Former Miami Dolphins offensive lineman Jonathan Martin says he was driven away by teammate Richie Incognito because of Incognito's endless cruel and homophobic taunts. Courtrooms over the past decade have seen numerous cases of high school athletes charged with using sexual assault to haze teammates. But eventually in those cases when responsible authorities were informed of those things, they did not excuse the behavior just because it occurred in a locker room. They acted. That's why Sandusky sits in prison and Miami released Incognito.  The first thing I asked myself was, what kind of locker room is Trump talking about and from what time period? Is he talking about a locker room at a white male-only golf course from the 1950s? Is he talking about the changing room outside the sauna at a spa catering to Wall Street? Perhaps he is thinking of a locker room outside the steam room at one of his own casino resorts he has frequented with fellow misogynist-mouthed Billy Bush? If so, I really cannot respond to it. I do not know what spills forth from people of privilege when they think they are far from recording devices and in the company of people who they feel comfortably certain think, act, and look exactly as they do. But those were not the images Trump was hoping to invoke. His \"apology\" was meant to convey that his words were the sort of good-ole-boy chatter laced with cuss words and innuendo that many have been raised to accept with a wink and a nod as an integral part of the macho American sports fact-and-fiction fabric. Now, I have been in and out of locker rooms from the high school to the pro level in countless sports as an athlete, coach, and journalist for the better part four decades. I have seen and heard incidents of racism, sexism, and homophobia �\" but no more there than anywhere else. Never have I heard anything as arrogant and extreme as what Trump said. Most importantly, I never have heard anyone use a locker room location as an excuse for inappropriate language or action. Quite the contrary: in recent years, colleges and pro leagues show signs of making sincere efforts to create more inclusive and safer environments for all of their athletes. I know as a coach, I use those moments of informal exchange with my athletes not to belittle or ridicule others, but to encourage them to be the best athletes and people they can be. Trump says his aggressive language was excusable because it was just words, not action. As someone who knows that what a coach says to his or her athletes is as important as any action taken, I have to say his words were offensive and dangerous �\" regardless of whether he acted on them. Then again, I might be arguing with an entertainer who thinks words never mean anything, whether they are given when vowing marriage, signing a construction contract, or penned into a peace treaty. I believe a locker room is a place where people let down their hair, say what is in their hearts, voice what they are striving to be. I think of the win-one-for-the-Gipper speech of football lore, or the passion Hunter Pence articulated when invoking his San Francisco Giants teammates in the 2012 playoffs.  Oh, yeah, for the record: Trump's comments were not made in a locker room. They were made in a bus used by the television program  Access Hollywood , a show that earns its keep by feeding the public recordings of celebrity sayings and doings.  If in that or any other setting you choose to give vent to your most self-indulgent, base passions, without regard to the rights or lives of others, then that's on you. Don't blame the room; those walls don't talk. 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[Home](https:\/\/www.ebar.com\/)\n2. [News](https:\/\/www.ebar.com\/ch\/News)\n\n# Jock Talk: Locker room talk\n- by [Roger Brigham](https:\/\/www.ebar.com\/search?author=1&searchBox=Roger+Brigham&advancedSearch=1&submit=search&search_for=exact+phrase)\n- Wednesday, October 12, 2016\n\nShare this Post:\n\nWhen Donald Trump said his remarks, caught on a hot mic, about exploiting his celebrity status to grab women by their genitalia were just \"locker room talk,\" a metaphoric whistle went off in my head.\n\nTimeout.\n\nOver the past few months, writing my sports column has been a therapeutic retreat from the assaults I observe daily on Facebook. Usually a site I like to turn to in the morning to find out the micro details of the lives of friends and family, such as what they have eaten and cooked in the last 24 hours or what bizarre behavior their pets have exhibited, Facebook in the pre-election months has been an endless hurling of political insults and damnations exchanged among people with whom I have otherwise enjoyed easy social banter.\n\nThank goodness I don't have to write about the election, I thought. Thank goodness I have my sports column. Thank goodness I do not have to chime in on the political circus assaulting us at every turn.\n\nBut as a coach, athlete, and activist, I can't let a blanket condemnation like that about locker rooms pass without comment.\n\nMr. Trump, you wouldn't know what goes on in a locker room if a jockstrap snapped you in your face.\n\nSadly, despite the protests of several professional athletes this week, seriously sick shit sometimes does happen in locker rooms. Former Penn State football assistant Jerry Sandusky raped little boys in team locker rooms and showers. Former Miami Dolphins offensive lineman Jonathan Martin says he was driven away by teammate Richie Incognito because of Incognito's endless cruel and homophobic taunts. Courtrooms over the past decade have seen numerous cases of high school athletes charged with using sexual assault to haze teammates.\n\nBut eventually in those cases when responsible authorities were informed of those things, they did not excuse the behavior just because it occurred in a locker room. They acted. That's why Sandusky sits in prison and Miami released Incognito.\n\nThe first thing I asked myself was, what kind of locker room is Trump talking about and from what time period? Is he talking about a locker room at a white male-only golf course from the 1950s? Is he talking about the changing room outside the sauna at a spa catering to Wall Street? Perhaps he is thinking of a locker room outside the steam room at one of his own casino resorts he has frequented with fellow misogynist-mouthed Billy Bush?\n\nIf so, I really cannot respond to it. I do not know what spills forth from people of privilege when they think they are far from recording devices and in the company of people who they feel comfortably certain think, act, and look exactly as they do.\n\nBut those were not the images Trump was hoping to invoke. His \"apology\" was meant to convey that his words were the sort of good-ole-boy chatter laced with cuss words and innuendo that many have been raised to accept with a wink and a nod as an integral part of the macho American sports fact-and-fiction fabric.\n\nNow, I have been in and out of locker rooms from the high school to the pro level in countless sports as an athlete, coach, and journalist for the better part four decades. I have seen and heard incidents of racism, sexism, and homophobia �\" but no more there than anywhere else.\n\nNever have I heard anything as arrogant and extreme as what Trump said. Most importantly, I never have heard anyone use a locker room location as an excuse for inappropriate language or action. Quite the contrary: in recent years, colleges and pro leagues show signs of making sincere efforts to create more inclusive and safer environments for all of their athletes. I know as a coach, I use those moments of informal exchange with my athletes not to belittle or ridicule others, but to encourage them to be the best athletes and people they can be.\n\nTrump says his aggressive language was excusable because it was just words, not action. 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Boilerpipe Text	When Donald Trump said his remarks, caught on a hot mic, about exploiting his celebrity status to grab women by their genitalia were just "locker room talk," a metaphoric whistle went off in my head. Timeout. Over the past few months, writing my sports column has been a therapeutic retreat from the assaults I observe daily on Facebook. Usually a site I like to turn to in the morning to find out the micro details of the lives of friends and family, such as what they have eaten and cooked in the last 24 hours or what bizarre behavior their pets have exhibited, Facebook in the pre-election months has been an endless hurling of political insults and damnations exchanged among people with whom I have otherwise enjoyed easy social banter. Thank goodness I don't have to write about the election, I thought. Thank goodness I have my sports column. Thank goodness I do not have to chime in on the political circus assaulting us at every turn. But as a coach, athlete, and activist, I can't let a blanket condemnation like that about locker rooms pass without comment. Mr. Trump, you wouldn't know what goes on in a locker room if a jockstrap snapped you in your face. Sadly, despite the protests of several professional athletes this week, seriously sick shit sometimes does happen in locker rooms. Former Penn State football assistant Jerry Sandusky raped little boys in team locker rooms and showers. Former Miami Dolphins offensive lineman Jonathan Martin says he was driven away by teammate Richie Incognito because of Incognito's endless cruel and homophobic taunts. Courtrooms over the past decade have seen numerous cases of high school athletes charged with using sexual assault to haze teammates. But eventually in those cases when responsible authorities were informed of those things, they did not excuse the behavior just because it occurred in a locker room. They acted. That's why Sandusky sits in prison and Miami released Incognito. The first thing I asked myself was, what kind of locker room is Trump talking about and from what time period? Is he talking about a locker room at a white male-only golf course from the 1950s? Is he talking about the changing room outside the sauna at a spa catering to Wall Street? Perhaps he is thinking of a locker room outside the steam room at one of his own casino resorts he has frequented with fellow misogynist-mouthed Billy Bush? If so, I really cannot respond to it. I do not know what spills forth from people of privilege when they think they are far from recording devices and in the company of people who they feel comfortably certain think, act, and look exactly as they do. But those were not the images Trump was hoping to invoke. His "apology" was meant to convey that his words were the sort of good-ole-boy chatter laced with cuss words and innuendo that many have been raised to accept with a wink and a nod as an integral part of the macho American sports fact-and-fiction fabric. Now, I have been in and out of locker rooms from the high school to the pro level in countless sports as an athlete, coach, and journalist for the better part four decades. I have seen and heard incidents of racism, sexism, and homophobia �" but no more there than anywhere else. Never have I heard anything as arrogant and extreme as what Trump said. Most importantly, I never have heard anyone use a locker room location as an excuse for inappropriate language or action. Quite the contrary: in recent years, colleges and pro leagues show signs of making sincere efforts to create more inclusive and safer environments for all of their athletes. I know as a coach, I use those moments of informal exchange with my athletes not to belittle or ridicule others, but to encourage them to be the best athletes and people they can be. Trump says his aggressive language was excusable because it was just words, not action. As someone who knows that what a coach says to his or her athletes is as important as any action taken, I have to say his words were offensive and dangerous �" regardless of whether he acted on them. Then again, I might be arguing with an entertainer who thinks words never mean anything, whether they are given when vowing marriage, signing a construction contract, or penned into a peace treaty. I believe a locker room is a place where people let down their hair, say what is in their hearts, voice what they are striving to be. I think of the win-one-for-the-Gipper speech of football lore, or the passion Hunter Pence articulated when invoking his San Francisco Giants teammates in the 2012 playoffs. Oh, yeah, for the record: Trump's comments were not made in a locker room. They were made in a bus used by the television program Access Hollywood , a show that earns its keep by feeding the public recordings of celebrity sayings and doings. If in that or any other setting you choose to give vent to your most self-indulgent, base passions, without regard to the rights or lives of others, then that's on you. Don't blame the room; those walls don't talk. It's you.
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[Home](https://www.ebar.com/) 2. [News](https://www.ebar.com/ch/News) # Jock Talk: Locker room talk - by [Roger Brigham](https://www.ebar.com/search?author=1&searchBox=Roger+Brigham&advancedSearch=1&submit=search&search_for=exact+phrase) - Wednesday, October 12, 2016 Share this Post: When Donald Trump said his remarks, caught on a hot mic, about exploiting his celebrity status to grab women by their genitalia were just "locker room talk," a metaphoric whistle went off in my head. Timeout. Over the past few months, writing my sports column has been a therapeutic retreat from the assaults I observe daily on Facebook. Usually a site I like to turn to in the morning to find out the micro details of the lives of friends and family, such as what they have eaten and cooked in the last 24 hours or what bizarre behavior their pets have exhibited, Facebook in the pre-election months has been an endless hurling of political insults and damnations exchanged among people with whom I have otherwise enjoyed easy social banter. Thank goodness I don't have to write about the election, I thought. Thank goodness I have my sports column. Thank goodness I do not have to chime in on the political circus assaulting us at every turn. But as a coach, athlete, and activist, I can't let a blanket condemnation like that about locker rooms pass without comment. Mr. Trump, you wouldn't know what goes on in a locker room if a jockstrap snapped you in your face. Sadly, despite the protests of several professional athletes this week, seriously sick shit sometimes does happen in locker rooms. Former Penn State football assistant Jerry Sandusky raped little boys in team locker rooms and showers. Former Miami Dolphins offensive lineman Jonathan Martin says he was driven away by teammate Richie Incognito because of Incognito's endless cruel and homophobic taunts. Courtrooms over the past decade have seen numerous cases of high school athletes charged with using sexual assault to haze teammates. But eventually in those cases when responsible authorities were informed of those things, they did not excuse the behavior just because it occurred in a locker room. They acted. That's why Sandusky sits in prison and Miami released Incognito. The first thing I asked myself was, what kind of locker room is Trump talking about and from what time period? Is he talking about a locker room at a white male-only golf course from the 1950s? Is he talking about the changing room outside the sauna at a spa catering to Wall Street? Perhaps he is thinking of a locker room outside the steam room at one of his own casino resorts he has frequented with fellow misogynist-mouthed Billy Bush? If so, I really cannot respond to it. I do not know what spills forth from people of privilege when they think they are far from recording devices and in the company of people who they feel comfortably certain think, act, and look exactly as they do. But those were not the images Trump was hoping to invoke. His "apology" was meant to convey that his words were the sort of good-ole-boy chatter laced with cuss words and innuendo that many have been raised to accept with a wink and a nod as an integral part of the macho American sports fact-and-fiction fabric. Now, I have been in and out of locker rooms from the high school to the pro level in countless sports as an athlete, coach, and journalist for the better part four decades. I have seen and heard incidents of racism, sexism, and homophobia �" but no more there than anywhere else. Never have I heard anything as arrogant and extreme as what Trump said. Most importantly, I never have heard anyone use a locker room location as an excuse for inappropriate language or action. Quite the contrary: in recent years, colleges and pro leagues show signs of making sincere efforts to create more inclusive and safer environments for all of their athletes. I know as a coach, I use those moments of informal exchange with my athletes not to belittle or ridicule others, but to encourage them to be the best athletes and people they can be. Trump says his aggressive language was excusable because it was just words, not action. As someone who knows that what a coach says to his or her athletes is as important as any action taken, I have to say his words were offensive and dangerous �" regardless of whether he acted on them. Then again, I might be arguing with an entertainer who thinks words never mean anything, whether they are given when vowing marriage, signing a construction contract, or penned into a peace treaty. I believe a locker room is a place where people let down their hair, say what is in their hearts, voice what they are striving to be. I think of the win-one-for-the-Gipper speech of football lore, or the passion Hunter Pence articulated when invoking his San Francisco Giants teammates in the 2012 playoffs. Oh, yeah, for the record: Trump's comments were not made in a locker room. They were made in a bus used by the television program Access Hollywood, a show that earns its keep by feeding the public recordings of celebrity sayings and doings. If in that or any other setting you choose to give vent to your most self-indulgent, base passions, without regard to the rights or lives of others, then that's on you. Don't blame the room; those walls don't talk. 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