Campaign: No Women-Hating in this Locker Room

There are probably something like 800,000 locker rooms in America (based on a back-of-the-envelope calculation using the small town I grew up in as the norm). Just think of all the grade schools, middle schools, junior highs, high schools, colleges, private gyms, Y’s, golf courses, tennis clubs, places where people get changed for work, rinks, arenas, stadiums, and so on. A lot of people spend a lot of time in locker rooms.

So when Donald Trump implies that unchallenged nasty aggressive braggadocio — like touting the ability to publicly grab women’s genitals with impunity — is the norm in American locker rooms, he’s covering a lot of territory. If what he says is right, behind all these many closed doors in America, many people are perpetuating hate. We’re not talking good-natured admiration; we’re talking verbal abuse.

If our locker room talk is truly at a Trumpian low, then the Donald has done us a good service. He has shed more light on yet another dark corner of hidden, harmful speech.

And it gives you an opportunity to prove Donald Trump wrong. You can stand up to any loudmouth haters trying to dominate the place where you change.

Go ahead. Draw a line in the tile. Declare the locker room you use as free of this kind of hate speech.

You can start by printing out the image below:

Then, tape it up outside of your locker room.

Show Donald Trump you don’t talk that way, and that if anyone does, you’ll tell them, “There’s no place in this locker room for that kind of talk.”

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