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Curling Canada calls for end to double standards, misogynistic comments levelled at women curlers

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Team Canada skip Kerri Einarson's volume increased with each of three times she belted out "clean" after throwing her final rock in the Scotties Tournament of Hearts last month in B.C., clinching a record-tying fourth straight Canadian women's championship title.

The shouting comes with the territory in curling, regardless of the gender of the person tossing the rock, but a small segment of spectators seems particularly bothered by the sounds when they come from women curlers.

That's according to Curling Canada, which says during big tournaments like the Scotties, it sees comments from fans online complaining women on the ice are too loud.

Einarson has received some of those comments on social media as well.  "We have higher-pitched voices, it's just how it is," she said. "I can't help that.

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