Survey: 59 percent of women say female reporters should be banned from locker rooms

So here’s something weird; it seems that women — by a pretty big percentage over men — are against female reporters being allowed in NFL locker rooms. In a phone poll conducted this week at Seton Hall University, 1,026 randomly selected adults (people who don’t screen their calls) nationwide were split on the issue. It found that 59 percent of 556 women and 47 percent of 470 men said female reporters should be banned from NFL locker rooms. Thirty-four percent of the respondents said all reporters should be banned. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
The next question is, why, women? Why do you care who is seeing Phillip Rivers in various stages of toweledge?

Bloomberg News:

“It is unusual to find women more than men in favor of limiting a woman’s right, in this case a reporter in a men’s locker room,” Rick Gentile, director of the Seton Hall Sports Poll, said in a statement.

We’ve done several posts on the subject here — most notably concerning Mexican TV reporter Ines Sainz — and the comments from women seem to agree with the Seton Hall findings. Sample: “A woman who dresses like her is just out for attention.”
RRrrr; cat fight. Um, I mean … fascinating study.
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Women Say Bar Female Reporters From NFL Locker Rooms in Seton Hall Poll [Bloomberg]