Just watched a screener of the documentary, Let Them Wear Towels. And it won’t be the last time I watch it.
ESPN will air the film Tuesday at 8 p.m. as part of its Nine for IX series. I’ll have a more complete review later, but I want to make sure you get it on your calendar and/or you set your DVR. Very powerful and eye-opening about the struggles of women sportswriters.
• This is such an abhorrent feminist double standard. If it is so professional why are not female athletes subject to this invasion of privacy. No male reporters are allowed in a women’s locker room while the athletes are in any state of undress. In the WNBA they are ushered out after 20-30 minutes so the women can change in total privacy. Could you imagine the feminist law suits if the shoe was on the other foot! In the U.S. it was a feminist female judge that made the ruling that a woman’s right to getting a quote after a sporting event was more important than a man’s right to privacy and decency. This situation is a feminist double standard and not any type of measure of equality. In professional and most college men’s sports female reporters as well as female college interns are permitted into the locker room 10 minutes after the game ends and can stay until the last athlete leaves. Male athletes are forced to shower and change in their presence. A law made punishable by fine by a feminist female judge.
I believe the locker rooms are open for the WNBA…Really not big of a deal anymore. Players are and out very fast. Usually dressed by time we get in there.