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7:30 Report on Women's football

Wrecker45
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Did anyone have the misfortune of watching the 7:30 Report last night?

They tried to compare Women's AFL football, AFL membership and AFL support to the NRL and then somehow concluded that the AFL were soft on domestic violence by comparison. Of course the NRL has no Women's teams, their female membership pales in comparison and I'm guessing their ground roots support sucks as well.

It had to be seen to be believed.

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    10 minutes ago, Wrecker45 said:

    Did anyone have the misfortune of watching the 7:30 Report last night?

    They tried to compare Women's AFL football, AFL membership and AFL support to the NRL and then somehow concluded that the AFL were soft on domestic violence by comparison. Of course the NRL has no Women's teams, their female membership pales in comparison and I'm guessing their ground roots support sucks as well.

    It had to be seen to be believed.

    To be honest Im sick of the media trying to push it's social justice agendas on sporting codes.

    The AFL, NRL and their respective clubs seem to be the only two orgamisations in the country held responsible for the conduct of their employees 24/7/365.

     

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    4 hours ago, Wrecker45 said:

    Did anyone have the misfortune of watching the 7:30 Report last night?

    They tried to compare Women's AFL football, AFL membership and AFL support to the NRL and then somehow concluded that the AFL were soft on domestic violence by comparison. Of course the NRL has no Women's teams, their female membership pales in comparison and I'm guessing their ground roots support sucks as well.

    It had to be seen to be believed.

    Sounds like a bit of a beat up to me. Just a lazy re-hash of the age old rugby/aussie rules arguments. I don't see why different initiatives in both codes can't be acknowledged, though I guess there are worse things to compete over.

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    5 hours ago, Dees_In_October said:

    Sounds like a bit of a beat up to me. Just a lazy re-hash of the age old rugby/aussie rules arguments. I don't see why different initiatives in both codes can't be acknowledged, though I guess there are worse things to compete over.

    Your use of language is offensive. We talk about domestic violence and you say a "beat up". if you condone beatings of women you should be ashamed.

    Different codes of football are entitled to have their own initiatives. To imply the AFL condones domestic violence is as silly as me quoting you above. The ABC should apologise. They showed the women's AFL and then ended by implying they condoned domestic violence. It was ridiculous. 

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    13 hours ago, Wrecker45 said:

    Your use of language is offensive. We talk about domestic violence and you say a "beat up". if you condone beatings of women you should be ashamed.

    Different codes of football are entitled to have their own initiatives. To imply the AFL condones domestic violence is as silly as me quoting you above. The ABC should apologise. They showed the women's AFL and then ended by implying they condoned domestic violence. It was ridiculous. 

    Yes, that was a terrible choice of words! You say it's silly, but words matter, so I apologise.

    I was trying to say that the issue of domestic violence goes beyond any one-upping in terms of which code is better or worse, which this report seems to have wrongly focused on. They could have easily taken a wider view about what different codes are doing but it seems like NSW bias to me.

    Rugby has made a bold move that will hopefully change attitudes and actions.

    But there can be no doubt that the positive effects of the AFLW will be widespread as well. I agree that's something they seem to have missed completely in this report. However, we should all avoid the temptation to say "Look at the AFLW," "Look at female membership" as the answer to everything. There's a long way to go.

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    34 minutes ago, Dees_In_October said:

    Yes, that was a terrible choice of words! You say it's silly, but words matter, so I apologise.

    I was trying to say that the issue of domestic violence goes beyond any one-upping in terms of which code is better or worse, which this report seems to have wrongly focused on. They could have easily taken a wider view about what different codes are doing but it seems like NSW bias to me.

    Rugby has made a bold move that will hopefully change attitudes and actions.

    But there can be no doubt that the positive effects of the AFLW will be widespread as well. I agree that's something they seem to have missed completely in this report. However, we should all avoid the temptation to say "Look at the AFLW," "Look at female membership" as the answer to everything. There's a long way to go.

    Given we agree on pretty much everything, there is no point continuing the argument. I was disgusted the Sydney centric ABC tried to compare the AFL to the NRL. They are so far apart their can be no reasonable comparison

    My original post was meant as a shot at the ABC. I think domestic violence is abhorrent 

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    6 hours ago, Wrecker45 said:

    Given we agree on pretty much everything, there is no point continuing the argument. I was disgusted the Sydney centric ABC tried to compare the AFL to the NRL. They are so far apart their can be no reasonable comparison

    My original post was meant as a shot at the ABC. I think domestic violence is abhorrent 

    No worries! It's important to talk about and the media has a responsibility to show the whole story.

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