Rita Panahi: Miserable moaners out in force after GWS ‘wacky Wednesday’ antics

Greater Western Sydney’s ‘wacky Wednesday’ antics left the easily spooked football world in a tizz, triggering the joyless Karen brigade despite the celebration being a private affair.

The miserable moaners have been out in force this week.

Greater Western Sydney’s ‘wacky Wednesday’ antics had the easily spooked football world in a tizz and the clueless, joyless Karen brigade, who think they speak for all womankind, were similarly triggered.

Never mind that the end of year celebration for the Giants was a private affair, behind closed doors and away from the public.

It seems a bar staff member feeling aggrieved is grounds for massive fines, suspensions, heck why stop there, how about we tar and feather the leadership team just to drive the point home.

Causing offence is an unforgivable sin in the eyes of Leftist feminists, the type who can’t tell you what a woman is, would never say a word about the levels of domestic violence in Indigenous communities and who think sex work is empowering but feel outraged on behalf of a blow-up doll.

Apparently, an off-colour skit, involving a player dressed up as Jarryd Hayne, who had his rape convictions quashed and charges dropped in June, and a blow-up doll is the grievous offence that should see multiple players punished.

An off-colour skit involved a player dressed up as Jarryd Hayne.

The perpetually outraged argue that the act sexualises women and is therefore unacceptable. Would they prefer the Giants have their ‘wacky Wednesday’ at a strip club with real women being sexualised?

There’s unconfirmed scuttlebutt that the aggrieved bar staff wasn’t even present for the skit and saw it on the CCTV footage which would make the whole saga that much more ridiculous. Folks have to learn that being offended doesn’t necessarily mean you are right, it just means you’re offended. People get offended by all sorts of things; indeed some hypersensitive souls live to be offended.

For the record I am not defending the behaviour of the Giants mainly because, right now, we still don’t know precisely what happened other than it was legal and in poor taste.

People are allowed to behave in poor taste at a private function where nothing illegal took place.

The AFLPA must take a strong stand for the GWS players or be condemned as spineless and completely beholden to the AFL.

Rita Panahi is a Herald Sun columnist