The AFL is scolding spectators after Collingwood supporters and football goers chanted ”Rapist” at a player. Apparently it’s too disturbing a thing to be going on in public, in front of the precious children. You know what I find disturbing? That they are letting him play. I’d rather have my kids not idolize and watch a rapist play sport, and I’d be glad for my child to know the community doesn’t support filthy rapists because they are famous for being able to kick a ball.
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The Brocial Network proves just why we need Slutwalk
http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/18/the-brocial-network-proves-just-why-we-need-sl-twalk/“This morning, La Trobe University journalism student Kara Irving broke a story in The Age (awesome scoop, Kara!) about a private, men’s only Facebook group calling itself the “Brocial Network”.
Irving writes that the group, which had more than 8000 members at the time of writing (including several AFL players, trumpeted the Herald Sun in its lame catch-up story), contains “hundreds of images of women in bikinis and lingerie, obtained from the personal Facebook photo albums of the members’ female friends.””
“This might be tough for the slut-shaming brigade to believe, but when women post scantily clad pictures of themselves on Facebook, they do not consent to being sexually objectified or harassed. Rather, the blame and responsibility should fall on the shoulders of the person doing the objectification or harassment.”
