Rumour Multiple GWS players are set to be suspended to start the 2025 season after distasteful costumes and skits from their post-season function

[Consolaçao]

Death isn't PTSD traumatic, IMO, unless it's a gory death that happens right in front of you. It's not graphic, it's not invasive, and if it's something that's done to you then you ain't going to any comedy gigs afterwards

I think we need to separate out grief from trauma here, too. Death induces grief much more so than trauma.

The other thing is that death is a leveller, it happens around everyone, and, eventually, to everyone.

Death isn’t traumatic? My brother in law died earlier this year, and his kids were very much traumatised (not to mention the rest of the extended family).

 

[Bagger72]

Maybe the competition is just bogus.
Will be interesting if club presidents want more power for their club because at the end of the day club presidents are responsible to us, the fans.
AFL excercising way too much power and largely unecessary.
Maybe give the clubs back the under 19 competition so they can develop talent themselves and set up a competition like the English Premiere League where clubs have full control but not govern the rules of the game.
Clubs and AFL still get equal share of TV rights.

 

[ThirtyFive]

The AFLW response was PR to perfection.

Should we have gotten a male response to when those 2 AFLW Swans players were caught with illicit substances?

The AFLW response was PR to perfection.

Should we have gotten a male response to when those 2 AFLW Swans players were caught with illicit substances?

Doubt that would happen. The law of averages around that particular issue in this industry would suggest that they were thankful that it wasn’t them that were caught.

 

[iameviljez]

Death isn’t traumatic? My brother in law died earlier this year, and his kids were very much traumatised (not to mention the rest of the extended family).

Traumatic in the clinical definition, not the layman definition.

 

[Consolaçao]

Traumatic in the clinical definition, not the layman definition.

Lol

 

[BF Tiger]

I suggest you re enact what you have described at your next work get together, in the function room to be accurate. I’d be interested in the outcome.

What if your employer put a theme on it of “troubled couples” and it was generally perceived as being somewhat loose/bawdy/distasteful, to the extent that a dozen or so employees showed up in questionable outfits and/or skits?

 

[webbo_83]

So the club paid for it

Yes, was very interested to read this as well.

 

[webbo_83]

Going back to less woke times, were there penalties for "engaging" with a schoolgirl and setting fire to a height challenged person?

Oh man, I hate it when this argument comes up. Is it even worth "engaging"?

 

[Underarm]

So the club paid for it

Puts to bed the ridiculous argument that it wasn't a work event.

 

[Satan]

Puts to bed the ridiculous argument that it wasn't a work event.

And makes a few posts rubbish

 

[Breretonisahood]

Looking forward to Dillon and Kane taking a whack for “failing to show adequate leadership” next time there’s an AFL scandal. And pigs might fly.

 

[Drought Break]

And here showeth the hypocrisy of the modern muddled mind. You are right, society tries to tell us these days that pride parades with naked men with dog masks and their **** out and women walking around with strap-ons on are totally normal, even in the vicinity of children and members of the public going about their day, is totally normal and a part of accepted society because they're just "expressing themselves", but making a dark joke about an insensitive subject is inappropriate. And people wonder why there is a culture clash.

yep, you could imagine what would happen at the Wooly hotel after party during Mardi Gras

 

[Gough]

yep, you could imagine what would happen at the Wooly hotel after party during Mardi Gras

Would simulated sex acts be a red line for you?

 

[Drought Break]

Would simulated sex acts be a red line for you?

if its consistent than yes, You dont think there would be any simulated sex acts from the gay community during or after mardi Gras? Lets fine everyone involved in that event including PM's, CEO's etc for not stopping it.

 

[Ghost Patrol]

if its consistent than yes, You dont think there would be any simulated sex acts from the gay community during or after mardi Gras? Lets fine everyone involved in that event including PM's, CEO's etc for not stopping it.

Are you going to make them all sign Mardi Gras player contracts and pay them as employees?

 

[Drought Break]

Are you going to make them all sign Mardi Gras player contracts and pay them as employees?

how about the ones who where uniforms from there organisation?

 

[Ghost Patrol]

how about the ones who where uniforms from there organisation?

Each organisation would have different terms and conditions on their employee contracts.

 

[Gough]

if its consistent than yes, You dont think there would be any simulated sex acts from the gay community during or after mardi Gras? Lets fine everyone involved in that event including PM's, CEO's etc for not stopping it.

Read some gay history, I could recommend you some excellent books if you're interested and you might understand why a Pride March differs ever so slightly from a footy club pie and pastie night.

 

[Bluelegs]

Help me understand. Is it the depiction of a crime that’s the problem? Or is it depiction of rape specifically?
I’m unsure why what happened was obviously bad, and why, say, crime depicted in a film or a book isn’t.

Tone, intent and execution would be pretty important in how such subject matter is received. There are many many movies and TV shows that have been criticised for depicting SA in an exploitative way. Like many things there is no one right answer. The film Irreversible is one of the most controversial movies ever for its brutal depiction of a rape. Some critics laud the film for being uncompromising while others found it to be sleazy exploitation.

It's hard to imagine there was much artistry or sensitivity in this case.

 

[Consolaçao]

Tone, intent and execution would be pretty important in how such subject matter is received. There are many many movies and TV shows that have been criticised for depicting SA in an exploitative way. Like many things there is no one right answer. The film Irreversible is one of the most controversial movies ever for its brutal depiction of a rape. Some critics laud the film for being uncompromising while others found it to be sleazy exploitation.

It's hard to imagine there was much artistry or sensitivity in this case.

We’re on shaky ground if we’re saying depictions of sexual assault are ok IF the level of ‘artistry and sensitivity’ is considered to have a met some sort of arbitrarily defined benchmark.

Surely you can see the issue?

 

[Drought Break]

Read some gay history, I could recommend you some excellent books if you're interested and you might understand why a Pride March differs ever so slightly from a footy club pie and pastie night.

bro please send me the books. have nothing to do today so would love to read why it differs ever so slightly. Could you put the links up on this thread?. cheers

 

[Bluelegs]

We’re on shaky ground if we’re saying depictions of sexual assault are ok IF the level of ‘artistry and sensitivity’ is considered to have a met some sort of arbitrarily defined benchmark.

Surely you can see the issue?

As I said there's no one right answer. Some will say these things should never be depicted while others will say it's okay to always. All this stuff is subjective and everyone is going to have their own line. But there is also such a thing as consensus, a crass depiction of a real rape for comedic purposes where the victim is portrayed as a literal object is probably going to be poorly received by most people.

 

[SC_Power]

Everyone let’s just calm down. These aren’t big AFL issues, it’s clearly an overreach.

Its not like any of the GWS players put their arms out and mimicked an aeroplane or anything.

 

[Bluelegs]

Everyone let’s just calm down. These aren’t big AFL issues, it’s clearly an overreach.

Its not like any of the GWS players put their arms out and mimicked an aeroplane or anything.

Um, I'm pretty a couple of them did

 

[beside the seaside]

The guys that did the Haynes stuff deserve bans. Just so wide of the mark of what's acceptable.

The rest of the bans are a genuine farce. I hope the people at AFL house don't go to the comedy festival because they'll be calling for most of the comedians to be deported.