[Linganth] Linganth Digest, Vol 25, Issue 8

Wed Oct 12 00:43:34 UTC 2016

Re: "locker room talk" - I'm guessing someone else has already shared this
great blogpost by Deborah Cameron:
https://debuk.wordpress.com/

Krystal A. Smalls, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Department of Anthropology

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> From: Deborah Jones <jdeborah at umich.edu>
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> Regarding the implications of talk of "locker room talk" for athletes, a
> couple years ago I taught a linguistic anthropology of "gossip, rumor, and
> lies" at University of Michigan. Among my students were four members of
> college football team, one of whom made a short presentation on "the locker
> room." His argument was that the locker room was a work space not entirely
> dissimilar to an office of cubicles: there were some corners in which you
> *could* have a more personal conversation, but you were still at work.
> According to my student, locker room talk was actually more likely to be
> about homework than about women. The real gossip, he claimed, came after
> practice, on the walk home. His teammates nodded emphatically in agreement.
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> I don't think the student was at all suggesting that the kind of talk often
> associated with locker rooms does not in fact take place among football
> players.  However, I found it intriguing that this football player,
> unprompted, chose to emphasize -- for the entire class -- that the locker
> room was a place for 'work' rather than 'gossip.'
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> -- Deborah --
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> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 5:31 AM, 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?
> >
> >
> >
> > 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!
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks –
> >
> > Kit
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Kathryn A. Woolard, Professor
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> > Department of Anthropology, 0532
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> > UCSD
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> > 9500 Gilman Drive
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> > La Jolla, CA 92093-0532
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> > kwoolard at ucsd.edu
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> >
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> > New book:  https://global.oup.com/academic/product/singular-and-
> > plural-9780190258627?q=woolard&lang=en&cc=us
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> Deborah A. Jones
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