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Many Hawkeye fans have responded to criticism of the pink locker rooms with hostility - something I personally experienced last May after announcing a prankish protest. Sadly, UI’s pink prank amounts to little more than a juvenile taunt, a sophomoric stunt left over from a bygone era.Įven the Daily Iowan’s Editorial Board has called for an end to the pink locker rooms, describing them as a “childish example of a destructive and anachronistic culture” (the Press-Citizen’s Editorial Board, however, has remained curiously quiet about this issue). That’s what pranks do - they shake up our everyday routines and surprise us with an unexpected and unconventional sight, sound or performance. “I think it’s definitely an insult,” said a visiting football player, “and they definitely use it to incite their opponents.” He was talking about the way the locker rooms flip gendered expectations about what a football facility should look like. When the university renovated Kinnick Stadium in 2005, it upped the ante by adding pink urinals, showers, floors and lockers. This trend away from hypermasculinity in sports makes it all the more unfortunate that the University of Iowa still hosts visiting teams in pink locker rooms.Ībout 35 years ago, Hawkeye coach Hayden Fry had the walls painted pink to get a rise out of his competitors. The drafting of Michael Sam, the NFL’s first openly gay player, is a hopeful harbinger of better things to come. When I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, coaches and gym teachers often motivated young men by calling them “homos,” “girls” and “sissies.” And perhaps you might remember “smear the queer” - the popular playground game whose name was a lighthearted reference to gay bashing? Good times.