I got by the interview that she was a very young naive girl from the country who was calling him (in her mind) a big hairy gorilla, maybe skin color or hearing ape said by other people influenced her, but I honestly think she was more referring to his size and shaggy beard, just what I took from the interview.
In my opinion:
In my opinion:
- Girl doesn't realise the word ape can hurt as much as it did and potentially was not thinking in a racist way as reported.
- Goodesy was absolutely correct in his actions and won more respect than he already had with the way he has spoken since.
- Love or hate Eddie, he won a fair bit of respect as well.
- Girl is no doubt educated and understands the seriousness.
- Media revisit it at every possible opportunity (completely ignoring the possibility that the girl may have been telling the truth) and despite saying we can't let this ruin Indigenous Round, bring it up every time Indigenous Round is mentioned.