[Linganth] "Locker room talk"?

[Jacqueline Urla]

Thanks Kit,

I came home wishing Clinton had said something more pointed about what the excuse of locker room talk meant for women on campuses today.

I, too, want to encourage a timely response to this!

jackie 

Jacqueline Urla
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Department of Anthropology
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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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