You see something different with people holding in their emotions because of who's present in the room?
Go figure, eh?
But you can imagine doing so for a woman?
This has nothing to do WITH WOMEN. It is a child vs grown ADULTS.
In a locker room of a sports team comprised entirely of men, women are probably only going to be in there post game in a professional capacity for news, reaction, interviews, etc. Of course the team should and will act as professionals, but if a guy is pissed off and swearing and venting his frustration before the camera rolls, it's fine for an adult of either sex to experience that, and it is FINE for that player to do that in his workspace.
Any adult in and around sports should understand the uniqueness of the business and the players. It is a highly charged emotional atmosphere and especially in hockey and football, they are violent sports. Chances are, the athletes, man or woman, are going to be emotionally charged at some point, and as long as that doesn't equate to sexist, racist, homophobic, etc remarks and actions, I don't see anything wrong with it in an ADULT environment.
The problem is that when you add in a child to the mix, perhaps there are things said or actions taken that aren't suitable for a child because they could be taken out of context or simply not appropriate for someone that age. It has nothing to do with sex, women aren't delicate flowers that shouldn't be exposed to swearing, but I'd assume most parents wouldn't want their kids to hear and be a part of everything that goes on in a professional sports locker room.
I mean, you must have heard a bleeped out reaction of a player being asked a stupid question, right? Well in the locker room, that wasn't bleeped out, and who knows what went on before or after the camera was rolling? Those 25 guys should have the option of a completely private environment at some point in time from everyone but team officials. It's that simple.
Anyway, if the Sox put some sort of clause into his contract that allowed his son to be there that much, that's pretty stupid, yet it's also selfish of Laroche to put that into his contract demands without even knowing many of the players on that team in that atmosphere. If he just started bringing his kid to work everyday and retired because the Sox didn't want that to happen anymore, then as I said earlier, good riddance.