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 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?
 

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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
 
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?
 

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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.
 
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.
 
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?
 
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
 
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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.
 
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.
 
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 sure a couple of them did
 
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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.
 
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.
I mean if someone on the premises wanted to complain they would have every right to lodge one

Just like in this particular instance
 

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