You See, This Is Why We Don’t Let Women Into Locker Rooms

Ha ha! Just kidding, folks. Most of the female sports reporters I’ve met are among the most professional in the business. Plus, they dress nicer than the guys, who are mostly slobs. (The exception is the Inquirer’s Kevin Tatum, who always dresses magnificently.)

And, yeah, it sucks being a female sports reporter, since a large number of the guys hit on you, sometimes players don’t treat you with respect, and sometimes players who treat male sportswriters with respect don’t treat the female reporters with respect. (Ha ha! Just kidding. No players respect sportswriters.)

So, right: Anyone not wanting women to cover sports is stupid. You know the drill. But, because men’s sports are more popular than women’s sports, every once in a while a woman (a gay man could do it, too, I suppose) gets all giddy while she covers sports. (It happens every once in a while when a man covers a women’s sport, too, of course.)

And you get things like this, from NBC 10’s blogger Teresa Masterson, who went to a Trenton Thunder game. I’m actually kind of torn on this, because, well, her recap of a Trenton Thunder game was actually a pretty enjoyable read, but, well, it did contain this:

Here’s the thing: I was promised a chance to meet the players, and had visions a la Carrie Bradshaw using her press pass to get into the Yankee locker room.

Boys. I’m not going to lie — I stayed for the boys. What I forgot is just that. They’re boys.

I followed my fellow pressmen into the locker room post loss only to find a group of angry, silent boys eating chicken fingers, who forbid the lone female reporter from taking pictures of angry, silent boys eating chicken fingers.

Then again, maybe this is a lesson on why major league baseball doesn’t give press passes to bloggers.

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