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And if anyone was wondering why it’s a good thing that the AFL is coming down hard on slurs (unless your name is Rankine), here’s your example.
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News Mitch Brown comes out as first openly bisexual AFL player
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Was an hour and 13 minutes after GWS posted about it.
Don't have an issue with the timing, but it's probably a reflection that we're an older, more rigid organisation that probably could use some updating.
No. Did not mean that. Purely that there would have been approvals required that caused it to be delayed.
GWS seem to give their person more of a free reign. They sometimes skirt close to the edge, but they also push the boundaries more that West Coast seem to be willing to do.
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Again, harsh - 1 hour and 13 min more for a considered good response is more than acceptable. He wasn't an ex gws player, the article didn't directly reflect on them
Anyway, good on for him speaking up
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Those approvals might also have been contacting Mitch himself as West Coast was his employer - GWS have nothing to do with him. Bit less personal.
Literally said in my post that I didn't have an issue with the timing.
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He’s previously told the story of how he was offered a deal for 2017 then had it reneged when Sam Mitchell said he’d come over.
I suspect the offer to play on for a couple more years that’s he’s talking about came from another club.
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Did his ACL in Round 1, 2015 and missed the rest of the season. That was his one for the year.
Played four games as backup to a suddenly fully stacked Eagles backline of McGovern, Barrass, Shep, Schofield in 2016. Selected in the elimination final no less.
And even if there weren’t some pretty clear mitigating circumstances given he was fresh off an ACL, is it difficult to think that someone who didn’t feel comfortable in their work environment and had clearly lost at least some part of their love for the game might not perform at their best?
Pretty reasonable to accept he’s telling the truth that someone wanted him to play on (Saints were always after him every offseason for a start).
And we rated him highly enough to deny a trade request when he was still contracted to us.
This being your immediate response is… interesting to say the least.
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"Brown turned down a contract extension at the Eagles in a bid to find a new club in Melbourne, where his netballer wife Shae had moved."
Everyone knows the AFL is a godawful environment for gay/bisexual men. That's what all the discussion around Rankine (and Graham, and Collard and ...) was about.
Nothing he said was anything new in that sense.
The editor must have got confused.
"Mitch brown, the west coast eagles player"
"Yeh mitch brown, used to play in the forward pocket"
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Gonna be a huge day for the “who cares, just stick to football” commenters.
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Found these two tweets pretty succinct for the dwindling “why does he feel the need to announce it” crowd.
Has he tarred his team mates though?
I think it’s a generally well accepted fact that sexuality has been a rather taboo subject in Western societies, and it’s only until relatively recently that people are becoming more comfortable with it and that people feel safe to be open with their sexuality.
Fact that Mitch is the only openly bisexual man in the AFL demonstrates that it’s an issue that men have with acceptance. Applies to men across the board regardless of what team they play for.
The number of women in the AFLW that are open about their sexuality just goes to show that women deal with it a hell of a lot better than men do.
My initial thought on hearing this is - great for Mitch, glad he feels comfortable to be open and out there. Hope it helps others feel the same way and helps dispel some ignorance from insecure men.
There’s no need to feel defensive. We’re capable of intellectual and emotional growth, and just because we’ve acted one way in the past or said some things doesn’t mean that we can’t learn from them.
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