Mad Monday...

[Quivorir]

Too many people being offended on the behalf of other people in this thread and not enough photos.

 

[BlakeyNoFlakey]

It's obviously inappropriate, but I'm wondering who it would do more damage to. You'd think the victims wouldn't see what had happened to them as a joke, but they might not mind that image of Rolf in popular culture rather than the old one.

I don't think anyone should ever make a joke out of Child sexual abuse. Regardless of who's involved.

 

[Bengineer]

Too many people being offended on the behalf of other people in this thread and not enough photos.

I agree. Can a separate thread be branched off for the outragers and anti-outragers?

More photos dammit!

 

[clogged]

Nah, there isn't.

Blackface is 'blacking up.'

No it isn't. Blackface is assuming a racist caricature of black people. Dressing up to look like Lebron James is not the same.

 

[Hinkley Power]

I heard that the Carlton team had a night out at Subway with a few meat ball 12 inchers and a few cokes.

Then they finished the night with drive to Timezone for some air hockey

They are a bunch of rascals at Visy Park arent they

 

[FlowersByIrene]

I heard that the Carlton team had a night out at Subway with a few meat ball 12 inchers and a few cokes.

Then they finished the night with drive to Timezone for some air hockey

They are a bunch of rascals at Visy Park arent they

Mick has them in line nice and tight

 

[Mningasimisonda]

I don't think anyone should ever make a joke out of Child sexual abuse. Regardless of who's involved.

I think the punch line of the joke is Rolf and what he was hiding, not a laugh at child sex abuse or the victims.

 

[leeloo]

Do all the teams do a dress up Mad Monday thing? I don't think WC or Freo do.

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

No it isn't. Blackface is assuming a racist caricature of black people. Dressing up to look like Lebron James is not the same.

To give two pretty clear examples. Just my opinion.

This is ok:




This is pretty poor:

 

[clogged]

To give two pretty clear examples. Just my opinion.

This is ok:




This is pretty poor:

I'm a big fan of Key & Peele, but I wonder whether this skit where Keegan-Michael Key is dressed up as a caricature of a Native American is offensive.

 

[Bengineer]

I heard that the Carlton team had a night out at Subway with a few meat ball 12 inchers and a few cokes.

Then they finished the night with drive to Timezone for some air hockey

They are a bunch of rascals at Visy Park arent they

Not naming anyone, but I heard a couple of them went home early with tummy-aches after one too many Sprite and ice-cream spiders.

 

[Big_Birdy]

Do all the teams do a dress up Mad Monday thing? I don't think WC or Freo do.

According to AFL.com.au WC didn't have a mad Monday, they had player interviews with the coach. I assune because of their performance this year.

Good.

 

[want2spoodge_pettifer]

Hence ill-advised. Unless he was consciously trying to evoke Al Jolson, I'll classify it as insensitive and ill-advised as opposed to racism.

I think a distinction needs to be made between "blackface" and "painting your face black". You shouldn't do either, but one is mocking a race for laughs, another is no different to any other costume apart from connotations relating to blackface.

Do you really think that he darkened his skin so that he could speak in broken english and portray Lebron James as a racial stereotype? now, I haven't actually seen any pictures or anything so I may in fact be talking out of my ass and he was doing that, but if he simply darkened his face and nothing else, I don't see his act as "racist" simply because others darkened their faces for a different purpose in the past.

I'm not defending blackface, or advocating doing it, but unlike calling someone an "ape", there are non-racist reasons for doing it, now they aren't paticularly good reasons considering the historical context (American history, but it's in our culture as well now either way), and you shouldn't do it but it doesn't make you a racist just because you're ignorant/an idiot.

The difference is there are more innocuous (albeit ill-advised) reasons to paint your face black, than calling someone an ape (as there are very few reasons to actually do this in a non-racist contexts, certainly not enough to outweigh the reasons it is racist, of course, it's debatable whether the racist connotations of blackface outweigh the non-racist connotations, but I would hope as a society we move towards phasing out racist connotations for acts which otherwise are not offensive.) All that said, I don't know what the intentions behind the Lebron costume, so take this as more general musings than commentary on this paticular costume.

Oh, cool. The racism was casual. I get it.

I know that you're not the usual mouth-breathing pile of s**t (your response was measured, intelligent etc.) that responds to these threads with the 'woe-is-me-I'm-white-and-I-can't-say-or-do-anything-these-days' diatribes but come on, man. I still can't agree with this point of view.

 

[Silent Alarm]

Viv Michie as a glassed Redfoo... witty, topical, nothing too attention seeking, original. Absolute gem. Freo should lament letting this guy go.

 

[BlakeyNoFlakey]

I think the punch line of the joke is Rolf and what he was hiding, not a laugh at child sex abuse or the victims.

we'll have to agree to disagree. When it comes to kids being molested I have no sense of humour either way.

 

[pantskyle]

To give two pretty clear examples. Just my opinion.

This is ok:




This is pretty poor:

Looks like he was swimming in an oil spill.

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

Looks like Melbourne are off to a flyer in the Mad Monday controversy stakes, surely St Kilda will be able to respond with something.

Maybe they're taking a leaf out of Melb's book and Tanking on Mad Monday.

 

[blueboy25]

Not naming anyone, but I heard a couple of them went home early with tummy-aches after one too many Sprite and ice-cream spiders.

That is pure rumour and innuendo....you take it back right now mister!!!!!

 

[AM]

It was naive and bad taste. Reckon the club will treat it that way. It's not a hanging offence.

 

[NikkiNoo]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/photos-fnlmw1po-1227045110780/?page=1

Mitch Grigg loses out for going as himself

Hendo as Daniel Talia's cat

 

[Tiger71]

Suns did a movie theme.

Pretty tame.

lol are the suns mormon? Talk about tame

 

[Affidavit]

Political correctness goes too far once again.

* of you whiny bitches and spend your time doing something productive.

 

[bombersfan4000]

According to AFL.com.au WC didn't have a mad Monday, they had player interviews with the coach. I assune because of their performance this year.

Good.

maybe the same thing should take place at clubs like the demons and stkilda
instead of dressing up as pedophiles and setting dwarfs on fire

 

[bombersfan4000]

no other player has managed to replicate the highs that old fev got up to

 

[The Anchorite]

Viv Michie as a glassed Redfoo... witty, topical, nothing too attention seeking, original. Absolute gem. Freo should lament letting this guy go.

If only our goal was to bring together a top-flight performance troupe of interesting personalities.