Bullshit.
These Politically Correct wimps athletes are lying.
Or they are so pussy whipped that they just can’t admit it. Either way, I doubt that anyone really believes the meme that the press is pushing.
Apparently I hang out with more manly men than these professional athletes.
We, at least, admit it.
Women are worse when they think they are alone, sometimes, actually.
ETA: If there is a man out there who claims he has NEVER said anything like that, I will call him a liar.
Remember in Crocodile Dundee when Dundee was told that a womanly dressed person was actually a guy? People laughed at that, and then he did it again to a woman he wasn't sure about. Everyone laughed again. Remember Steve Martin? "O come on! I was talking about her cat!" and then he made an even cruder joke about bestiality. Everbody laughed and laughed. I don't see anybody burning their Steve Martin records. That was nearly forty years ago, and they were brilliant, celebrated entertainers to the media.