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Who says they were mates? Or that it was an official relationship (as opposed to, say, a hook-up)?

Killing off family and Australia values like punching blokes in an all-in brawl! You're probably even worse than Blackrock.

Eh, just a bit of connection with that kind of thing actually means to the people at the centre of homophobia won't hurt him.

People can change, even if it's just little by little.

No self-respecting gay man would be seen dead snatching my shitty bag! :)

it's a pretty appropriate response for someone who uses homophobic sledges If someone managed to retain their job in a regular workplace despite being busted saying something homophobic, this is exactly what would happen.

This illustrates one of the issues with the AFL actually not being upfront about what was said. I get not wanting to have a copycat effect, but this vacuum does open up a spot for misinformation.

Huh? Their modus operandi is basically to buy, strip and flip. That's not good, but they are hardly Islamic State or running a CIA blackspot.

There have been more than 600 mass shootings in the USA in each of the years since 2020. Source (not that you'd care): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081

That's true, but it's not our cause of death.

Never met a trans person while REALISING that they are a trans person...

It was fun while it lasted.

All-in brawls are only "acceptable" for two reasons: 1) There aren't the resources to correct identify the halfwits who think it's acceptable to try and smash someone's face in despite the fact that we have to work on Monday, and 2) Local footy is sometimes absolutely in the ******* Dark Ages.

Yes, I can't believe it either. As in, I literally cannot believe it.

Who refuses to bring their wife to a single club function because they "want to keep them private"? Gay footballers keep their relationships extremely private for one extremely good reason.

It's not coming out, it's even just taking your boyfriend as your date to a B&F night or a red carpet. Which nobody has done thus far.

I agree with the first bit, but not the second. If you ever are going to see a shift in society, you have to fight for it.

I can only assume that you grew up under a rock somewhere. Certainly when I went to school in the late 90s, coming out as gay would have made you a massive social target.

Most likely, yes. There's now a subset of people who actively like to push back against social taboo, to identify themselves as racist/homophobic/etc., and be contrarian to society's rules.

Not necessarily, but it's getting much, much harder to use those words now in society without realising that they are now taboo, and making the connection as to why. Of course some parts of society change faster than others, but Gen Z are vastly less tolerant of people using "f*g" and "r****d"...

It's an analogy, therefore it has a place in this thread.

It's not exactly the same, but all the same the comparison is illustrative and worth bearing in mind. Obviously tackling is an intrinsic part of the game, in the same way that different workplaces have different levels of acceptable risk.

Well, if you want to police literally everything ever said on an AFL field, be my guest. Frankly, that sounds unworkable to me. For what it's worth, I manage to get through my soccer game every week without calling my opponents names.

Are you arguing that we should eliminate any and all sledging?

"OK" is a weird term to use. To be frank, it's never something that is going to get a Tick of Approval but we just kind of roll with it because sledging is seen as being tolerable in professional sport.

That's up to them and how they feel about it, and why. The reason why there is more tolerance for bald insults in society than for insults based on skin colour or race, is that bald men weren't separated from their families less than 100 years ago, they weren't thrown over cliffs on the...

As a bald man myself, honestly I just find it pretty ridiculous and laugh it off. It's so, so, so much less historically charged than anything to do with LGBT sexuality or blackness that it's not the same league, it's barely even the same sport.

We are. If you called someone a c*** s***** in the workplace, at a family gathering, in a club, on the train, wherever, then you'd be pretty immediately removed, ostracised and shunned. This isn't hysteria, it's just real world, with real world consequences.

It depends on what kind of job we're talking, to be fair. If he were on a construction site, the mines or in a logistics yard, he probably would. If he were in my office job, then honestly he'd be out that door before midday.

It's not about whether it hurts the receiver at all. It's about whether it's ok to say it or not. I doubt the recipient was personally hurt at being called a c*** s*****, but that's not the point.