What's the matter doll-face?

So if you haven't heard by now, the Chicago White Sox are mired in a nationwide controversy over a locker room display that included blow-up dolls and strategically placed bats in the vicinity.

Pundits are calling for a variety of punishments, most notably the manager Ozzie Guillen. Feminists have swooped in with the speed of a mongoose to declare their objections to such a despicable act.

Hmmm. Is this really what the world is coming to?

With advertisements using shorthand like OMFG with two high school characters from a t.v. show depicted in sexually suggestive positions in the backdrop, this shouldn't have even been a blip on the radar.

Sure it was probably a nice story for the Toronto writer who saw the display. I'm sure on a slow news day it filled up space nicely and probably earned him a couple guest appearances on radio shows somewhere.

But was it really necessary?

The locker room used to be a sacred place where the players could be themselves and acted as a safe haven from the constant scrutiny and all seeing cameras. But now that sanctuary is being violated as the media explores news ways to rob these athletes of anything remotely close to resembling privacy.

The NBA now allows cameras in the locker room, microphones on coaches and requires interviews between quarters.

MLB now allows in game interviews that seem to really irk managers that have to participate in them as their team is in a dogfight for playoff position.

The NHL allows player interviews in between each period.

Everywhere you look the public eye is burning a hole in the back of the heads of professional athletes, leaving them no possible way to be themselves during the 162 games of a MLB season.

These were guys being guys and meant not to offend, but to uplift their teammates while they tried to break out of a tough road stretch that included some heartbreaking losses.

So to all the Carol Slezaks and Woody Paige's out there, take it down a notch. You truly need to start writing columns that make people think instead of writing columns you think may make people upset.