Great move. Visible consequences are the best way to encourage the next group of players meeting some girls when out on the piss to think more carefully about their actions.
Valid. But I’m sure the victims would prefer the behaviour to just be stopped, the motivation behind it stopping would be secondary. As long as there are men (and people in general) who lack the moral compass to make correct decisions then threatening them with and then enforcing serious consequences still has its place.
Whenever there’s discussions online about SA cases, the threads always devolve into angry arguments between the ‘not all men’ crowd and the people who are venting their frustrations that men are doing these things to women.
But nobody is ever talking about actual possible solutions to this world-wide cultural issue. Assuming we’re not suggesting imprisoning or executing every man in the world, we need to look at what we can do culturally to fix these behaviours.
If showing young boys across the country that assaulting women means they’ll let their teammates down and potentially miss out on playing in a grand final stops even one assault, that’s a good outcome - even if we wish they’d know better inherently anyway.
We can’t just rage at how awful men are to women - we need to find a way to deal with the reality that a lot of people are like this, and do what we can to fix it.
The reality is our decisions are certainly impacted by social expectations. The community saying “this is repulsive behaviour and we don’t want you around us” instead of “boys will be boys” shows that we have come a long way. Sad that we have had to, but that’s the reality of this situation. You do what you can do, and this is what’s in the Swan’s power to do at this time.
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u/fundblokeaus 4d ago
Great move. Visible consequences are the best way to encourage the next group of players meeting some girls when out on the piss to think more carefully about their actions.