Athletes take issue with Trump over “locker room talk”

To truly hit his points home, Noah concluded, “By the way, Trump can try to excuse his behaviour by calling it ‘locker room talk, ‘ but you realize he wasn’t in a locker room”. You know the quotes by now.

Trump’s “locker room talk” should do more than upset athletes. “What’s going on in the world is usually what’s going on in the locker room”. “I don’t believe he’s got a conscience”. Men and women. Coaches and athletes.

The stories are hard to read, with many women describing things from when they were minors.

Updated throughout with details: The 2005 conversation in which he said, of women, “when you’re a star…you can do anything, grab them by the pussy”.

However, it seems that Haslem isn’t the only National Basketball Association player, or professional athlete for that matter, taking an exception to Trump’s comments. There are players in our locker room with sisters, wives and daughters. “Donald Trump is different”, Clinton said. His take on Trump’s locker room dodge? It was an attack on an innocent kid who had walked into the varsity locker room to get a drink of water. Indiana University is committed to the safety and well-being of all members of the IU community and strongly encourages students and employees to report any incident of sexual misconduct or sexual assault to IUPD or other appropriate authorities. I’ll go first: “Old man on city bus grabs my p***y and smiles at me, I’m 12”. At times, they talk like normal candidates.

Locker rooms are just rooms.

“The locker room is a sacred place”, Thunder guard Victor Oladipo said Monday after practice. Music. Food. Clothes. Movies.

Obviously, the audio of Trump bragging about sexual assault has rocked and the presidential campaign and Republican politics, but it was just part of a week like no other. “I’m certainly not proud of it, but this is locker room talk”.

“I’ve also heard some incredible things and some incredible outputs on life and character and religion and faith”, Tate said.

It’s possible, I suppose, that athletes speak like this when reporters are not around. A few lacked good male role models. “And right now this election is going to be about how the Republican party treats women”.

Some of the misogynistic music blaring around locker rooms and weight rooms is evidence of that. We never had anyone say anything as foul and demeaning as you did on that tape, and, hell, I played a couple years with a guy who later turned out to be a serial rapist.

From former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice to former San Francisco 49ers fullback Bruce Miller to Chicago Cubs pitcher Aroldis Chapman, players haven’t been known for their respect toward women. “Real men don’t say these things”. There have been gay slurs. It was the byproduct of bad leadership and fear – from other players like me – that allowed a rotten culture to exist until something awful brought the TV trucks to town and finally forced a change.

Some even say true locker room talk is no talk at all.

But you know what isn’t?

Lions WR Golden Tate talks about Donald Trump’s recent “locker room” comments.