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...wake of the feminist movement, some men are beginning to pipe up. In the intimacy of locker rooms and the glare of large men's groups, they are spilling their bile at the incessant criticism, much of it justified, from women about their inadequacies as husbands, lovers, fathers. They are airing their frustration with the limited roles they face today, compared with the multiple options that women seem to have won. Above all, they are groping to redefine themselves on their own terms instead of on the performance standards set by their wives or bosses or family ghosts...
...however, the dam seems to have burst. The immediate cause was the charge last month by Boston Herald reporter Lisa Olson that several New England Patriots exposed their genitals and made lewd remarks while she was trying to conduct a postgame interview. Since then, reports of other incidents of locker-room harassment have come to light, causing some women sportswriters to wonder if their jobs are under widespread attack...
...latest uproar came last week when USA Today football reporter Denise Tom was barred from the Cincinnati Bengals' locker room by coach Sam Wyche after a loss to the Seattle Seahawks. "I will not allow women to walk in on 50 naked men," said Wyche. Calling the coach's actions "sexist," USA Today sent a protest letter to the National Football League demanding enforcement of the league's 1985 policy of equal access to players for male and female journalists. Late last week N.F.L. Commissioner Paul Tagliabue announced that Wyche, who had violated league media-relations policy twice before, would...
...talk to women when I am naked unless they are on top of me or I am on top of them." Tigers . president Bo Schembechler admitted that Morris' comments were out of line, but said in a letter to the paper that sending a woman into the locker room showed a "lack of common sense...
...defend their rights. "Ten years ago, Lisa Olson would have stood alone. Today we are all behind her," says Washington Post reporter Christine Brennan, past president of the Association for Women in Sports Media. For Olson, who was booed by the crowd at a subsequent Patriots game, the locker-room imbroglio has taken an immediate toll. Currently on leave, she will probably not be reassigned to cover the team this season. "She's been brutalized. I'm not sure it would be fair to send her back," says Herald executive sports editor Bob Sales. Furthermore, he says...