Centennial High School athletes are fighting back against the idea that bragging about sexual assault is locker room talk.

A picture of basketball, football, soccer and cross country athletes in a locker room at the Gresham school, wearing shirts that say "Wild Feminist" has been shared over a thousand times already on Facebook. The caption to the picture reads: "Sexual Assault is not locker room banter. #wildfeminist #reptheC."

The shirts are from Portland-based clothing company Wildfang. Emma McIlroy, CEO and founder of Wildfang, told us over the phone Friday that the Centennial picture is part of a larger movement.

"Some of us at Wildfang were pretty upset by Donald Trump's comments," she said, speaking about the now-infamous comments made by Donald Trump in 2005 about non consensual groping and kissing.

Trump has called those comments, "locker room talk."

"I don't think he gets to speak on behalf of all men," said McIlroy. "What you're talking about is sexual assault and not locker room banter at all."

So McIlroy and Wildfang contacted a coach at Centennial, who helped them make the picture in the locker room happen.

"Young men are a big part of the feminist movement," said McIlroy.

"These guys are all over the country in locker rooms right now," she continued. "These young men are the ones who go 'no, that's not cool--that's not okay" if talk of sexual assault comes up.

One of the students in the picture, 17-year-old senior and basketball player Majax Nduta, said over Facebook that he's been playing sports since 7th grade. "Not once have I said or heard anything like what Donald Trump considered 'locker room talk' while in a locker room," he told us.

"The shirt represent that sexual assault is not locker room banter," he said, "and I truly take a stand for that."

The young men from Centennial aren't the only male athletes standing up for feminism and against sexual assault. Wildfang has also posted a picture of Olympic fencer Miles Chamley-Watson in a Wild Feminist shirt in front of some lockers, with the caption: "'Sexual assault is not locker room banter' #wildfeminist"

McIlroy said this is just the beginning. There are already more athletes lined up who will be posting pictures like these in the coming days, including a Timbers player.

"Young men are going to change the conversation," McIlroy said.

"This wasn't about celebrity," she added, "this was about the future."

-- Lizzy Acker

reprinted from the Oregonian.

Here is a sample of Pro Male Atheletes Reponse to Trump's Locker Room Assertion.

LeBron James (Cleveland Cavaliers forward)

"What is locker room talk to me? It's not what that guy said. We don't disrespect women in no shape or fashion in our locker room. That never comes up. Obviously, I got a mother-in-law, a wife, a mom and a daughter and those conversations just don't go on in our locker room. What that guy was saying, I don't know what that is. That's trash talk."

Chris Kluwe (former NFL punter)

"When asked to justify your statements, you claimed that this was "locker room talk," and it's just how guys speak about women. You're wrong, and only the type of wrong an over-tanned ham hock like yourself can accomplish, plummeting past the morass of gross incivility into the abyss of depraved sociopathy.

"How do I know this? Simple. I was in an NFL locker room for eight years, the very definition of the macho, alpha male environment you're so feebly trying to evoke to protect yourself, and not once did anyone approach your breathtaking depths of arrogant imbecility. Oh, sure, we had some dumb guys, and some guys I wouldn't want to hang out with on any sort of regular basis, but we never had anyone say anything as foul and demeaning as you did on that tape, and, hell, I played a couple years with a guy who later turned out to be a serial rapist. Even he never talked like that." (Vox)

"When asked to justify your statements, you claimed that this was "locker room talk," and it's just how guys speak about women. You're wrong, and only the type of wrong an over-tanned ham hock like yourself can accomplish, plummeting past the morass of gross incivility into the abyss of depraved sociopathy.

"How do I know this? Simple. I was in an NFL locker room for eight years, the very definition of the macho, alpha male environment you're so feebly trying to evoke to protect yourself, and not once did anyone approach your breathtaking depths of arrogant imbecility. Oh, sure, we had some dumb guys, and some guys I wouldn't want to hang out with on any sort of regular basis, but we never had anyone say anything as foul and demeaning as you did on that tape, and, hell, I played a couple years with a guy who later turned out to be a serial rapist. Even he never talked like that." (Vox)

Udonis Haslem (Miami Heat forward)

"I don't know what locker room he's been in. No, I didn't appreciate it, to be completely honest. That's not our locker room talk. I don't know Trump very well at all, but I don't know who he's played for the last couple years to even say he's been in anybody's locker room and had those kind of conversations." (ThePalm Beach Post)

Richard Sherman (Seattle Seahawks cornerback)

"I think it was a cop-out. I think it was a cop-out," Sherman said on Wednesday. "He needed some way to divert the attention from himself. That's not how most people talk in the locker room, and I think a lot of athletes would say the same. But it allows him to divert the conversation away from him, which was the focus." (710 AM Seattle)

Doc Rivers (Los Angeles Clippers coach)

"They're bad comments. They're demeaning to women. You know, I think when people throw out that word, 'locker room talk,' there's nobody talking like that in the locker room. Is there swearing in the locker room? Yeah. Every other word. But there's nobody demeaning -- there's players in our locker room with sisters, wives and daughters. There's not that type of talk in anyone's locker room." (ESPN.com)

Michael Bennett (Seattle Seahawks defensive end)

"As a parent of (three) daughters I felt like, I was irate," Bennett said. "Locker-room talk? I don't even know if that's locker-room talk, though. That was kind of crazy to be talking about a woman like that. Women are so important. Without women none of us would be here. So you can't disrespect women at all. That stuff that's going on, it's terrible.''

He also referenced Trump's comment that he can "do anything" with women because he's a celebrity.

"I don't think anybody goes out of their way to go out and disrespect women in that type of way or feels that because of their situation that they can disrespect women, that because you are a superstar you can get away with that,'' Bennett said. "That's not true. You've got to treat people right and treat women with respect." (Seattle Times)

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Doug Baldwin (Seattle Seahawks wide receiver)

"Have I heard things like that in the locker room? Not that aggressive. Again, locker-room talk, it can be aggressive sometimes. But I don't think I've heard — ever heard — anything like that."

Baldwin also added: "He's not in the locker room. He's not in a violent sport. So I don't know if he really knows what locker-room talk is. It's not that, I can tell you that." (Seattle Times)

We could go on. BASTA.

With the phrase, Locker Room Talk, Trump tried to normalize his boast that he was entitled to assault women. Atheletes reject his behavior. All Decent people reject it.

We Will Vote. #FromNowUntilNov8

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October 15, 2016