As detailed here, CBC commentator Don Cherry sparked quite the controversy Saturday night when he used his Coach's Corner segment to argue that female reporters shouldn't be allowed in male locker rooms. Last night, he reiterated those views:
If Don Cherry - and those who profess to agree with him - want to change the reporter-athlete dynamic so that the exchanges occur outside the locker room in a news conference-type environment then we can have that conversation. However, by proposing to simply keep female reporters out of the locker room, you merely create a situation where male reporters have privileges that female reporters do not - in fact, female reporters simply couldn't do their job. So not only would you be keeping females out of the profession, you'd be doing so ostensibly for their own good.
If players were making racist jokes in the dressing room, no one would be arguing to keep visible minority reporters out so as to protect them from seeing or hearing that. We'd demand the players stop their unprofessional behavior. If the sort of behaviour Don Cherry is describing is still going on, then that is also unprofessional behaviour that should be stopped. The answer is not to punish female reporters because of the boorish actions of some players.
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