He said 99 percent of the time, that kind
of locker room talk is untrue or severely exaggerated.
Not exact matches
Maya Raghu, director
of workplace equality at the National Women's Law Center, says this is not mere «
locker room talk.»
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his supporters have suggested that the now - notorious 2005 conversation made public by the Washington Post on Friday — in which Trump is heard making sexually explicit comments about women while TV personality Billy Bush eggs him on — was typical
of the kind
of harmless «
locker room talk» in which men engage in all the time.
He has said he didn't commit the acts he boasted
of in the tape and has called his remarks just «
locker room talk.»
It's a false, wicked, depraved version
of masculinity that considers the objectification
of women as mere «
locker room talk» and «boys will be boys.»
In the
locker room, in team meetings, in coaching meetings, on the field, and in front
of the cameras, Tim Tebow was always
talking about Jesus and inviting people to believe in Jesus, and on and on and on.
Now the current debate over «
locker room talk,» I'm happy to report, highlights our decreasing acceptance
of the old, broken morality that «boys will be boys.»
Putting aside the more serious question
of whether Trump's words in his conversation with Bush accurately describe real actions he has committed (something he denied when pressed by Anderson Cooper in Sunday night's debate), let's consider the notion that all this is «just
locker room talk.»
As
of Sunday night, Trump still excused his comments in the video as «
locker room talk,» which is only true if it is «
locker room talk» about sexually assaulting women.
But if we remember the declaration
of Deuteronomy 6:4 and hear not lewd and idle
locker room talk (whether literal or metaphorical) but rather the declaration that «The Lord our God, the Lord is one,» we win in the most important way possible.
That is why in the following verses, including those assigned in this week's lectionary, we find not a set
of rules but something like a
locker -
room pep
talk: a grab bag
of motivational prods, pushes and invitations.
I heard a couple
of my
locker room buddies
talking about this today and immediately my mouth started watering..
He
talked up the team, waxed poetic about Curry's greatness, bragged about the hard work his teammates had put in to get to this point and picked at his afro while going through the motions
of making a quick exodus out
of the
locker room.
He's the last one to make it back to the
locker room after
talking to reporters and being congratulated by friends, family members and a slew
of other supporters.
One
of the most appealing aspects
of Angell's reporting is the air
of seeming innocence he takes with him when he
talks to baseball people, whether it be in a World Series
locker room or on a lazy spring afternoon at a training camp in Arizona or Florida.
Having delivered his pregame
talk, he would leave the
locker room on the lower level
of Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh, mount the steps that led to the court, and stand on the top one, still unseen by the crowd.
Another narrow Super Bowl loss and a whole lot
of talk about dysfunction in the
locker room and in the front office isn't going to change the fact the Patriots are among the most consistent teams in football, and they should be viewed as such until the precise moment it's proven otherwise.
Texas coach Darrell Royal
talking to Tommy Nobis (60) and rest
of the team in
locker room before game vs Oklahoma at Cotton Bowl Stadium.
Wearing his business suit, he wandered through the cramped and unchanged
locker room,
talked with the current occupant
of his old
locker, then traveled through the long tunnel toward the dugout and the playing field.
While Sportianity can't make a dent in basketball, the Rev. Billy Zeoli leads a phalanx
of clergymen into football and baseball
locker rooms, where prayer is a function
of «team unity» and the players and chaplains
talk a great deal about the Seventh Commandment.
Before games, while teammates bounced around the
locker room in a jangle
of loud
talk and nerves, he quietly sat at his
locker with a piece
of reading material, head bowed, like a holy man in meditation, lost in any time but the present.
We
talk about this in the
locker room as football players and leaders, how you want everyone around you to feel like they can be great for having played with you, sat in a classroom with you, been a friend
of yours.
«I still haven't had the chance
of talking with him, even though it's always positive to know somebody when you arrive in a new
locker room.»
Resist the urge to allow
locker room talk, slumber parties, television, and Judy Blume books to become your teen's only source
of information.
Pay attention: Instead
of dropping their kids off for practice, parents should stick around if they can; they should encourage their kids to report inappropriate behavior by teammates or coaches - whether it is «
locker room talk» demeaning
of women or girls, or anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant comments or behavior - regardless
of whether it is directed at a teammate or not, and made to feel safe in doing so; they should pay attention to a coach's behavior at practices and games to make sure they are not participating in or tolerating bullying, teasing or abuse
of any kind.
Trump has denied the accusations
of sexual misconduct and, in response to The Washington Post's publication
of the «Access Hollywood» recording, chalked up his comments to «
locker room talk» that he had never acted on.
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of people who
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