BoBo

Surely you can see the irony here.

Is there any news on Culley? Small miracle he was able to walk off the ground after that landing, hope he’s ok

Wowzers

Yeah fair! I’ll support any result that’s worse for Collingwood. I’d support the anti-Christ over Collingwood, haha

Go… Brissy? Is that what we want?

Nobody is born homophobic. It is a learned mindset from peoples environments. Culture, is literally what social environment you were raised in. Language is the mechanism we use to convey concepts and ideas to each other and it decides what is acceptable or not, within a culture. So when you are a child and you hear people using gay slurs and it becomes normalised, you learn to associate being gay with being bad and a lesser person (this is dehumanisation). Children then don’t want to be associated with being gay, so will join in on using that language to demonstrate to their peers/family that they are not gay. Sometimes, kids will be so scared to be seen as gay, that they will go on to be violent towards other kids on even the idea that they are gay. If they don’t like another kid, they might call them a gay slur, because being gay is ‘bad’. The other kid doesn’t have to be gay. Some of these kids turn into adults and they carry out violence/abuse/bullying/discrimination randomly, to people they perceive to be gay, that they see in the street. Some of these kids will turn into adults that carry out murders on gay people. Some of these kids will turn into adults that still using gay slurs or homophobic language and pass it on to the next generation. The people that bare the full brunt of this are gay people. Whether it be social ostracism, family rejection, bullying, random abuse on the street, suicide, discrimination at work, vilification, murder, being genocided etc. etc. etc. etc. You can be against this dynamic and speak out against it. Or You can deny it exists, undercut or downplay it, wilfully ignore that this is the reality, obfuscate the discussion or you just really like homophobia actually and want to join in on it because you are still terrified of being perceived as being gay. All of this violence/abuse, begins with what some people say are ‘meaningless’ words.

Colli’s are a wobblin’

Tracc didn’t bomb it in!!!!

I wonder what our win/loss record over the past 4 years would look like if you took out oppo junk time goals scored in the last 30 seconds of quarters.

Jakeyyyyyyyy. 51 seconds to let Collingwood get a goal

CHANT COOOOOOOLLLIIIWWWWWOOOBBBBLLLLEEEESSSS

C’mon boys let’s gooooooo

As soon as I saw your comment I was like ‘Welp, here comes a goal’, haha

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P.S. @picket fence thank you very much for proving my point.

Ahh yes, all those heteros that have been verbally, physically abused/killed/burnt alive/systematically exterminated In genocides for centuries. @Superunknown this is my first example. Don’t think I need to explain any further. Edit: THE example of grey area and nuance. Chefs kiss.

I can quote the numerous instances of posters cowardly insinuating that there is grey area or nuance if you like? Use of the AFL being a ‘moral arbiter’ or incredibly ‘moral arbitrator’ for even taking a stand against homophobia being 2 extremely dumb examples. Can do it like by line if you want? But what will inevitably happen is people will back off the original comments as ‘what I meant to say was’

And I’m also so sorry.

You clearly don’t understand, homophobia is a very complex issue that many posters can’t figure out if it’s right or wrong. Literally what people are putting forward here. It’s actually unreal.

Completely agree. It’s why the AFL needs to abolish ANZAC day. Don’t want the AFL to be the arbiters of morality. Weird to honour a military force that has partaken in illegal invasions. Seems like the AFL is posturing to society.

It is very hard to decide if using slurs is right or wrong. I personally was happy when the AFL was appointed to sort out this very very very very very difficult moral question.

I love the logical extension of the ‘toughen up’, ‘sticks and stones’ and ‘it’s just name calling’ sentiments I’ve seen around this. I can tell my friend that works in counselling women that are recovering from emotional and verbal abuse (note, no physical violence) from their partners to just tell those women they’re being too soft and she just needs to remind them of the age old wisdom of a literal poem for children that: Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. Problem solved 🤣😂🤣😂

Ummmm, I can only look at tackles overall and F50 but I’ll have a look see when I get home and post it. No idea how to do the other stats, haha, would be good

You wouldn’t believe how complex it is.

Yeah fair, I didn’t add intercept marks but if I did it would be: Intercept marks 2021: 1st 2022: 1st 2023: 3rd 2024: 5th 2025: 5th So 2021 and 2022, this would have boosted our placing up quite a bit defensively to probs 1st overall. But it doesn’t affect the downward trend of us being worse as 2024 and 2025 is the same placing of 5th.