Crowd violence / violence against women - lip service

[Sedat!]

Notwithstanding the issues surrounding Adam Goodes this week (and I've made my personal feelings known in the relevant threads), on the weekend there was an all-in brawl at an AFL match and a female fan in the crowd trying to enjoy a game of football ended up being bashed in the head and required medical attention. Where is the media and the AFL making the necessary noise to denounce this and make sure the perpetrators involved are punished and publicly shamed? Violence against women is a sordid issue in our community and this issue on the weekend has been completely lost amid the white noise. How can the AFL make any claims to being concerned about violence against women and then let this issue on the weekend go through to the keeper? Imagine if it was a soccer match - do you think the mainstream media would have remained as silent about it as they have this week?

As much as racism should be stamped out (and I fully support the stance taken by Goodes), I'd have thought violence against women was as critically important an issue to stamp out.

 

[Max zero]

I see what you did there.

This thread won't end well.

 

[CountryRace]

wouldnt happen in soccer

thats disgusting

 

[Bluelegs]

I'm guessing you're referring to this?


If this happens next week and the week after then the game will have an issue. Otherwise it's an aberration that should be dealt with by the clubs, and the stadium staff.

 

[CountryRace]

I'm guessing you're referring to this?


If this happens next week and the week after then the game will have an issue. Otherwise it's an aberration that should be dealt with by the clubs, and the stadium staff.

was someone boo-ing someone, and it got out of hand?

 

[JohnnyFontane90]

haven't heard this story at all. which is probably the main point of your post.

but not sure the violence against women thing totally applies. from how you describe it sounds like the was a brawl (presumably between men) and a woman was caught in the crossfire. more a random unlucky occurrence rather than targeting women specifically.

but you know how these things happen: 'you're team is s**t!', 'no your team is!', 'come here and say it!', push punch etc... i imagine security would have been there within seconds and thrown everyone out. not a whole lot you can do to prevent that.

unless security or the stadium really failed in their duty to provide adequetae security i don't really see what more media attention will achieve.

 

[Robco]

How do you know she was bashed because she was a woman?

 

[Kummerspeck]

Imagine if it was a soccer match - do you think the mainstream media would have remained as silent about it as they have this week?

Preeetty weak from you.

 

[the_interloper]

If the whole Goodes thing hadn't blown up this week you can bet this would be the issue of the week.

 

[blue harvest]

on the weekend there was an all-in brawl at an AFL match

lol if it was that video above

 

[boyOboy]

So you're saying it is an issue because she is a woman? So if a man trying to 'watch a game of footy' got hit in the same way it's totally cool?

Feminism/sexism/reverse-sexism does my head in. Her gender is irrelevant it's not a violence against women issue.

 

[BEEG]

Women involving themselves in fights never ends well i have seen it happen before if you want to help go get security or call the police

 

[Tiger71]

Notwithstanding the issues surrounding Adam Goodes this week (and I've made my personal feelings known in the relevant threads), on the weekend there was an all-in brawl at an AFL match and a female fan in the crowd trying to enjoy a game of football ended up being bashed in the head and required medical attention. Where is the media and the AFL making the necessary noise to denounce this and make sure the perpetrators involved are punished and publicly shamed? Violence against women is a sordid issue in our community and this issue on the weekend has been completely lost amid the white noise. How can the AFL make any claims to being concerned about violence against women and then let this issue on the weekend go through to the keeper? Imagine if it was a soccer match - do you think the mainstream media would have remained as silent about it as they have this week?

As much as racism should be stamped out (and I fully support the stance taken by Goodes), I'd have thought violence against women was as critically important an issue to stamp out.

 

[Doggy Dan]

Bunch of boofhead Pies sit in an area full of Dogs, steal a Dog's fans beanie off the back of his head because they were about to lose, what else did they think would happen? Dogs fans who ran in when they saw a chance for a fight should be banned as well.

Terrible incident especially with so many women and children in the immediate area and of course one of them copped a whack in the crossfire.

Don't see it often so shouldn't be too worried IMO, a stronger security presence would have diffused the situation before it got to that stage.

 

[Barry_Badrinath]

So in the last couple of days we've had racism, sexism and transsexual threads all on the main board. Probably should make a gay thread as well just to make sure we have all bases covered.

 

[Sedat!]

So you're saying it is an issue because she is a woman? So if a man trying to 'watch a game of footy' got hit in the same way it's totally cool?

Feminism/sexism/reverse-sexism does my head in. Her gender is irrelevant it's not a violence against women issue.

Umm, no. Thread title also references crowd violence. Irrespective, people deserve the right to a safe environment at the footy, which clearly wasn't the case on Sunday otherwise a woman wouldn't have been punched and required medical attention.

I would have expected the AFL to lead the charge condemning this and for the media to follow suit. I guess showing leadership is expecting far too much from the AFL, seeing as they needed Lewis Jetta's intervention on Sunday to actually embarrass them into some sort of action on the Goodes issue.

 

[kaiserchief13]

So in the last couple of days we've had racism, sexism and transsexual threads all on the main board. Probably should make a gay thread as well just to make sure we have all bases covered.

I thought there's a thread about Richmond though?

 

[Sedat!]

Preeetty weak from you.

How so? Do you think that a violent fist fight in the crowd of another footy code that resulted in someone being bashed and requiring medical assistance would not have garnered any media exposure? Turn it up.

 

[DERIBERATE]

was someone boo-ing someone, and it got out of hand?

I hope they boooooted them out of the stadium

 

[Brad_12345]

Preeetty weak from you.

Ah bullshit, they would of had a field day if it was at the soccer

 

[Sedat!]

haven't heard this story at all. which is probably the main point of your post.

Absolutely.

I understand that the woman in question may not have been the specific target of violence for the perpetrator in question. However any situation where a woman is bashed by a man is not acceptable under any circumstances, not least of which when she is in the crowd at a footy match and fully expecting to be in a safe environment doing so.

Violence in sporting crowds is a topic that the media are normally all over, so I find it very surprising that they have completely ignored this story in this particular instance. Especially when the main victim of the violence was a woman. And seeing as it happened on the AFL's watch, I would have expected a press conference and a public condemnation of the incident at the very least. Alas, nothing.....

 

[Kummerspeck]

Ah bullshit, they would of had have a field day if it was at the soccer

Using violence against women as a vehicle to complain about how the MSM treats soccer is piss weak.

 

[SherbertLemon]

I think it's important to consider one of those brawlers may have had a beard.

When are we going to make a clear statement that violence against beards is not going to be tolerated.

 

[Tiger2709]

I thought there's a thread about Richmond though?

So West Coast supporters are not only racist but homophobic as well, Im shocked

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

Absolutely.

I understand that the woman in question may not have been the specific target of violence for the perpetrator in question. However any situation where a woman is bashed by a man is not acceptable under any circumstances, not least of which when she is in the crowd at a footy match and fully expecting to be in a safe environment doing so.

Violence in sporting crowds is a topic that the media are normally all over, so I find it very surprising that they have completely ignored this story in this particular instance. Especially when the main victim of the violence was a woman. And seeing as it happened on the AFL's watch, I would have expected a press conference and a public condemnation of the incident at the very least. Alas, nothing.....

I don't get it.

Shouldn't the attention be on the fact that there was a fight in the crowd at the footy? Regardless of who got hit? The 'main victim' of the violence was not a woman, she was hit by errant fists. You're painting the picture as though she was deliberately attacked.

The violence itself should be condemned, not who was incidentally injured in the crowd.