“The players will not play on Thursday and we accept their decision,” Hasler said. “These young men are strong in their beliefs and convictions and we will give them the space and support they require.
remove them from your team, make cancel culture real I beg of you :trans-gun:
conflicts with their cultural and religious beliefs.
I fucking hate this bullshit justification that these freaks can hide behind and the media just eats this shit up. Say you're a bigot with your full chest you fucking cowards, don't hide behind your abusive sky daddy.
that's the most dishonest shit, you're right. I hate the one that's like "hate the sin, not the sinner" or shit like "acting on gay impulses is a choice." How about I'm queer fuck you
you 10000% know if it was all muslim players saying this, they'd get bashed by the very same media + organizations
Boy was that a fun 5 years when everyone pretended gay stuff was mainstream and homophobia was over, despite obvious signs to the contrary.
I still remember growing up and being called a "metrosexual" because I cared about my hygiene and appearance
Nothing short of a great and terrible reckoning visited upon the 'phobes will work
Man races home because the sun is starting to come out on a rainy day and that can only bring...The Colour Arch :walter-shock:
The rainbow symbolizes god's beautiful promise not to drown everyone again
When I see it being stolen to represent love, it makes me so peepee poopoo in my pants
This is funny only because most of the guys I know who play rugby as adults in the U.S. are gay.
Me too. I think it's because you have to be really open minded to adopt a completely new sport that could end up giving you serious head injuries.
Support???????
You'll give them the support they need to hate queer people? Why not support the queer people they hate and remove the players entirely
Excuse me we have freedom of religious expression in this country my religion is homophobia and head trauma
The only support they should get is from inside a concrete pillar supporting a motorway flyover.
"Strong in their beliefs and convictions"
wow, so fucking brave of them to be pieces of shit, they truly deserve the utmost support.
The space they require: a six foot hole in the ground
The support they require: The stretcher to carry them there
Israel Folau moved to the Tongan team over Australia for the world cup because they weren't accepting of his anti gay views. They struck his contract over it. Hope these guys eventually feel the same backlash.
the favorite sport of br*tish boarding school nonces that just banned trans people from participating has queerphobic players? :surprised-pika:
Rugby union is the one that copies boarding school shit, rugby league is more of a poorer people's sport in Aus. Also, most of the players in this boycott are of Islander or Maori descent. In Australia a large portion of homophobic/anti LGBTQIA+ people are immigrants from strict religious backgrounds. As @KiaKaha said, for Pacific Islanders this is a remnant of them being colonised. But it is so ingrained now that there are several evangelical christian churches owned and run by people of Islander background where they echo everything the white evangelical christians in USA talk about.
for Pacific Islanders this is a remnant of them being colonised
This was something that blew my mind a bit once I finally understood it. There are places all over the world that, before they were colonized and forcibly Christianized, were actually reasonably OK with different notions of gender, sexuality, etc. But since colonization the worst aspects of Christianity it seems, have been retained in many places.
To be fair it's not really the Brits that are against it. A while ago Israel Folau was homophobic and the rugby world clowned on him for it. Rugby Union's had openly gay legends of the sport for quite some time now. The players that are going against it at the moment are mostly from similar ilk as Folau, being indigenous but raised Catholic probably in a Catholic school
Here’s a take I saw on Folau that made me pause for a bit.
Missing from the public discourse is the background of how evangelical Christianity swept the Pacific Islands. This the story of colonialism and Christian missionaries and Captain Cook; of the destruction of local religions and languages.
It is the story of how all over the world, cultures that didn’t have laws or customs against homosexuality or gender fluidity could become so puritanical that they turned against their own LGBTIQ brethren in favour of the gospel as preached by their colonisers; only for the colonisers to then finally soften their own stances against homosexuality and decide that homophobia was yet another moral failing of the colonised. *
I still don’t like him, but there’s a grain of truth in it.
It's true, but there's plenty of others who were raised the same as him who have not publicly denounced gay people.
It's true that there's a history there but there's also history in the white families of Christianity for generations upon generations, whether it's from aristocratic members or poor Irish convicts sent to Australia.
I don't know, I just say fuck them off until they decide to shut up and play the game.
That history of colonization can be true and also still be internalized bullshit they need to work through if they’re in a position of public influence.
Māori culture has a long and proud tradition of multiple gender identities outside the colonial gender binary as well as notions of queerness. There are are a lot of trans and GNC Māori folk bigots like that are actively harming.
You’re right that there is complexity there and also the material impact of bigotry and hate remains a deep rooted problem that must be addressed.
i debated joining the local gay rugby team because I want to have a ruggers ass and I'd like to make out with beefy boys. but i decided i want to protect my joints...
if it was muslim players saying this aussies would be bashing them so hard
Seven Manly Sea Eagles players have withdrawn
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