[Linganth] "Locker room talk"?

[Ilana Gershon]

Dan Suslak pointed out to me that Deborah Cameron has a very good blog 
post about this:

https://debuk.wordpress.com/

I am going to post the link to the CaMP anthropology blog as well.

Best,
Ilana

On 10/9/2016 11:57 PM, Jacqueline Urla wrote:
> Thanks Kit,
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> I came home wishing Clinton had said something more pointed about what the excuse of locker room talk meant for women on campuses today.
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> I, too, want to encourage a timely response to this!
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> jackie
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>> On Oct 9, 2016, at 11:31 PM, Woolard, Kathryn <kwoolard at ucsd.edu> wrote:
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>> Hi all –
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>> There’s a lot of expertise on gender and discourse on this listserv. Is anyone poised/ working on an op-ed piece and/or well-placed blogpost taking apart , for a general audience, the repeated invocation of “locker room talk” as a defense of bragging about sexual assault?
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>> E.g., what/where is this canonical  “locker room” that excuses bragging about criminal sexual harassment,  in the long-established age of Title IX?  And, what are the implications of this genre defense for athletes in high schools and colleges, in addition to professional teams, in a time of such public concern about sexual assault on campuses and highly publicized incidents so often involving athletes?
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>> I can’t write it, though I wish it could; I hope some of my talented, knowledgeable colleagues who can write for a broad public are working on it!
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>> Thanks –
>> Kit
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>> Kathryn A. Woolard, Professor
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