So say if they were a victim of sexual assault, and seeing this made them feel uncomfortable coming into a workplace that tolerated it, they are a 'Karen' for raising it as an issue? I'd suggest it is their business.
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Rumour Multiple GWS players are set to be suspended to start the 2025 season after distasteful costumes and skits from their post-season function
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Leadership, and I skit you didn’t see.
Yeah I think that's my point.
Dress up in a costume that someone not even part of the event finds offensive....suspended for 4 weeks.
OD on drugs on a saturday night in public and get rushed to hospital in an ambulance...free to play the next week.
Cooked.
OD on drugs on a saturday night in public and get rushed to hospital in an ambulance...free to play the next week.
Cooked.
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Not surprising, if you can't comprehend that then I can't help you.
I am very reluctant to believe that particular rumour, it makes very little sense.
I can see scenarios, both legitimate and nefarious, where that could be the case.
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Thats a harsh call. A broad brush of society have always enjoyed dark humour and poking at terrible historical events. There is a video posted here of a whole range of comedians doing jokes about 9:11. Dark humour often stastains us and lets us release on serious painful subjects. Your sensibilities are to be respected if you dont like that form of humour but to imply if you do you are a loser who will be socially ousted just doesnt sit with reality for me
The state, employers or people who seek to censor others thoughts, actions, books read , films watched etc should be approached with care. You dont have to like what other people like or say but outside some pretty strict guidelines to want to censor them is a slippery slope.
the potential explanation that comes to mind is where a junior staff member - being present - raised it with a manager, who has then raised it on his/her behalf.
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You've articulated this very well. I can see your point. We, as a society have corrected certain things, over corrected in some people's views and now we are in a pretty divisive time. I guess in terms of the players, they are paid so much because of all the dollars that sponsorship, marketing etc bring to the game and they are getting held to the most squeaky clean standard. So from that perspective, it was a dumb idea to do what they did as it gives the AFL a chance to do what they please under the ruling of "bringing the game into disrepute."
I think if there's no fine or suspension it's as if they AFL are approving of what went on which they could not under any circumstances be seen to be doing that.
Like everything, subject to opinion.
I don't think so, but there's a minuscule minority that would probably want you locked up. If you're company is averse to what is considered punishable pr like the AFL thinks (which they don't, they just want to be seen as moral to the lowest common denominator, even though everyone can see the transparency), then I wouldn't be.
Crime and punishment and all that.
Look up the roast of Pete Davidson and watch some of the stuff they said about his old man.
The barman would be outraged.
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So on that basis you and I should have no view because neither of us have seen the skit. Are you prepared to drop your criticisms based on this. Let me qualify it. Idon doing a skit based on a fight scene from Django Unchained can not be judged by a group of white people assuming the basis of the skit is true to the film.
Does that work for you. Don't you feel uncomfortable with a man of African heritage being told how he can interpret a slavery based skit by a sports body.
All good points. I've been to Jimmy Carr and had a good laugh at some pretty wrong shit. Love it.
It comes back to context. AFL and treatment of women. Has come a long way. So maybe don't set it back by taking the piss out of sexual assault. Particularly where it involved depictions of footy player (albeit different code).
Why do it? We all have shit ideas from time to time, but usually we wake up to the shitness. From the time this idea came about, to when it was communicated, the planning - all of that - at no point did they realise how ****en stupid it was?
Seems plausible.
Staff member gets told by another staff member last night was a pisser. They check it out on the footage and some doink looks over their shoulder.
Or the doink hears someone else talking about it and goes full Karen.
Yep.
Or a staff member not being comfortable working with people who just let that happen - perhaps workplace cultural issues.
On the other hand, I'm not denying that there is potential blackmail or similar motives as well. You'd hope not, but its possible.
Yeah, it is possible. People do weird things with famous people
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Isn't that then more an issue of the venue?
That seems a bit more far fetched tbh.
Yeah it would be in that case, for sure.
It's possible someone with IBS was nearby, who hasn't been able to fart safely in public for many years. Clearly I was mocking them with my disrespectful behaviors
Be careful, mocking is punishable.
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Lets be honest if this had happened in Victoria, SA or WA it wouldn't have seen the light of day for obvious reasons, but NSW is not Victoria or SA or WA.
