The Neanderthals strike again

[The bulldog tragician]

Eddie, Frawley and Bradshaw in a week where we should be celebrating a women's footy league and a white ribbon awareness partnership.

When will these Neanderthals ever learn?

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/we-cant-let-the-misogynist-banter-of-eddie-mcguire-slip-past-20160619-gpmmyk.html

[GVGjr]

Re: The Neanderthals strike again

I saw this late last night. You would hope society has come a bit further than this but put a few blokes especially those trying to act all blokey and you never know.

It will be interesting to see the AFL's response.

[The bulldog tragician]

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Underneath Eddies fake jovial exterior is a seething angry man.

[Greystache]

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Would it have been ok if it was chief football reporter Mark Robinson? Or Damien Barrett?

[bulldogtragic]

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Why I haven't listened to Triple M or their syndicates or watched the footy show for many, many years. I don't understand what the majority of the public like about this garbage, and they do. If they didn't ratings would be down, thus advertising revenue would be down and bosses would do something.

[The bulldog tragician]

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[QUOTE=Greystache;501933]Would it have been ok if it was chief football reporter Mark Robinson? Or Damien Barrett?[/QUOTE

And yet, strangely enough, it wasn't.

[Greystache]

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[QUOTE=The bulldog tragician;501935]

Would it have been ok if it was chief football reporter Mark Robinson? Or Damien Barrett?[/QUOTE

And yet, strangely enough, it wasn't.

Would it have been different though?

[The bulldog tragician]

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I suspect there will be a re-run of the Goodes booing debate.

"Other people get booed and it's no different for a non- aboriginal."

"men joke about dunking each other and it's no different for women."

there is a context in which both these events happen, of racism, of discrimination, of violence, of disrespect, of misogyny. That is why they're different.

I wonder if Eddie or Frawley would have found it just as funny to hear people joking about their wives being held down under water, being called a witch or a black widow spider.

[Remi Moses]

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This is much ado about nothing really . Plenty of people don't like McGuire and in particular Barrett .
Just don't think it's a female thing to be honest .

[Topdog]

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Only really the black widow thing was against women.

Rest of it was just hatred of a journalist and I've heard similar (threatening) of male journalists

[LostDoggy]

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Only really the black widow thing was against women.

Rest of it was just hatred of a journalist and I've heard similar (threatening) of male journalists

Really? When was the last time a male journalist was threatened of being drowned as amusement while the rest of the boys gathered around and chuckled?

[whythelongface]

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Really? When was the last time a male journalist was threatened of being drowned as amusement while the rest of the boys gathered around and chuckled?

Exactly.

These guys can't handle a woman in a 'man's' domain. It just ain't footy.

[merantau]

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Caroline Wilson has been around a long time and has made her way in a pretty cut throat environment. She has a pretty sharp intellect and I get the impression she doesn't suffer fools easily. She has probably made some of these blokes look foolish at times - hence the venom. I listened to the tape and the pack mentality, with Eddie as the ringmaster, sounds really off. I've lost respect for Danny Frawley, for one, as a result of this. I never had much respect for the others involved in the first place. Mc Guire is a big head who gets so far ahead of himself, at times, you couldn't pick him up on the Hubble Telescope. Brayshaw is a boy who's yet to grow up and Wayne should count his lucky stars the boy's club has drawn up the wagons around him because otherwise he was headed down the same alley as Leslie O'Brien Fleetwood-Smith, although courtesy of different substances. If the AFL is fair dinkum about valuing women then they need to do something publically about this tawdry matter.

[Bornadog]

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IF (a big IF) there was no domestic violence against women then maybe, just maybe we can have a laugh, but reality is the stats are very damming.

52 women are killed every year in a domestic situation, but did you know over half a million women have reported that they had experienced physical or sexual violence or sexual assault in the past 12 months.

Enough is enough cowards. Eddie and his mates should resign.

[Twodogs]

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IF (a big IF) there was no domestic violence against women then maybe, just maybe we can have a laugh, but reality is the stats are very damming.

52 women are killed every year in a domestic situation, but did you know over half a million women have reported that they had experienced physical or sexual violence or sexual assault in the past 12 months.

Enough is enough cowards. Eddie and his mates should resign.

That's an appalling situation.