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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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I just walked down the street to grab lunch and farted while wearing a company polo shirt.

Should I self report?
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.
 
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.
Look up the roast of Pete Davidson and watch some of the stuff they said about his old man.

The barman would be outraged.
 
Leadership, and I skit you didn’t see.
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.
 
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.
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?
 

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I am very reluctant to believe that particular rumour, it makes very little sense.

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.
 
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.
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.
 
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.

Isn't that then more an issue of the venue?
 
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.
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
 

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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.
Whoa there turbo. No, I don’t know what was in the skit, but I do know it was enough for some fairly harsh punishment, as has played out. We may never know what the skits involved, but if the players don’t appeal, which so far they haven’t, it would be fair to assume it wasn’t nothing.

If that is all Idun did, then fair enough, I agree that he shouldn’t be judge by a bunch of white people with how he would like to find humour in slavery.

That’s the whole problem with sections of this thread - “ The AFL are overreacting..” etc, you can’t know they are overreacting without knowing the full details.

I’m not saying the punishments are fair, because I don’t know, but I will say I don’t think the AFL would just randomly suspend/fine a large number of players without some cause.
 
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.
I agree, and I said in other posts I am not a lefty who censors or wants to ruin people, but I have my opinions to give like anyone else.

So what is this strict guideline?? Is racist or sexist jokes included in the dark humor that is fine??
 

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