Post: #1

Maybe this could have been put in the NFL thread, but it's not really about on-the-field football, so new thread.

http://theadvocate.com/sports/lsu/137665...tworth-mad

During an interview with Bengals defensive back Adam Jones, Whitworth was one of many players who could be seen naked in the background of the interview.

“This is my office space,” Whitworth said, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. “I shouldn’t have to change in it and be in front of people I don’t know or really don’t have any purpose for being near me other than the fact they are interviewing other people. If I was a woman, this would be a completely different subject, and it would be a complete firestorm. We can’t always just serve women and everyone else. Men deserve a right, too. We have rights. We have privacy. We deserve all the things we want as well. As a man, I think it’s right the policy is changed.”

Post: #2

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"

Post: #3

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.

Post: #4

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.

Post: #5

(10-21-2015 09:42 PM)monster Wrote:  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..

That can't be a serious comment; unless you're a proud member of the "Bobby Brown Jaw Club", I have a hard time understanding how being a "public figure" precludes him from classifying a place where his dick and balls are exposed as private space.

Post: #6

(10-21-2015 09:42 PM)monster Wrote:  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.

I can't disagree more with this comment. An athlete is any entertainer insofar as they are competing within the field of play. Their role as an entertainer ends after the game is over. That you pay money to watch them, feel a connection to them, or consider theirs to be dream job is irrelevant to goes on behind what should be closed doors.

Post: #7

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.

Post: #8

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.

Post: #9

(10-21-2015 10:00 PM)jariel Wrote:  

(10-21-2015 09:42 PM)monster Wrote:  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..

That can't be a serious comment; unless you're a proud member of the "Bobby Brown Jaw Club", I have a hard time understanding how being a "public figure" precludes him from classifying a place where his dick and balls are exposed as private space.

I am dead serious. And to take it even further, try whipping out your dick in your office even if there are no visitors and see what happens. The office analogy is absurd.

(10-21-2015 10:10 PM)la bodhisattva Wrote:  

(10-21-2015 09:42 PM)monster Wrote:  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.

I can't disagree more with this comment. An athlete is any entertainer insofar as they are competing within the field of play. Their role as an entertainer ends after the game is over. That you pay money to watch them, feel a connection to them, or consider theirs to be dream job is irrelevant to goes on behind what should be closed doors.

Perhaps in the "golden age" of sports - Babe Ruth, John Madden, etc - athletes were athletes and not entertainers. But that changed in today's media-driven day & age and NFL/NBA/MLB is 100% entertainment and athletes are entertainers both on and off field. That's the state of play now and a major league athlete today is a public figure plain and simple. Additionally when management opens locker room doors to reporters after a game it's 100% considered public space and not private space.

I do agree with the athlete's comment that there is a double standard, but his analogy that the locker room is private is biting the hand that feeds. It's the blitz (pun intended) of media coverage that makes it so he earns 9 million for being an offensive tackle - a position that depends much more on winning the genetic lottery of being a big MF rather than athletic aptitude.

Post: #10

I appreciate you pointing out that the pun was intended.

Post: #11

(10-21-2015 10:37 PM)LeBeau Wrote:  I appreciate you pointing out that the pun was intended.

Haha. So much pun.

Post: #12

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?

Post: #13

(10-21-2015 09:42 PM)monster Wrote:  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.

Good point. I'll now be demanding access to Jessica Alba's changing room between shoots, as she is an entertainer and I'll be damned if I don't get an opportunity to see those nice little titties for myself.



Take care of those titties for me, Jessica.

Post: #14

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.

Post: #15

Reminds me of this "Any given sunday" scene

Post: #16

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.