Make the AFL accountable: vote for our question on why the AFL refuses to act on Buddy Franklin’s porn tees to be asked at footy finals lunch

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As the AFL Finals get into full swing, the Melbourne Press Club will be holding its annual Footy Finals Lunch on Thursday 20th September. OurSay is working with the Melbourne Press Club to give you the chance to put forward a question for the panel.

So we did.

Here’s Collective Shout’s question, which so far is in the lead with over 800 votes!

“The AFL’s Respect and Responsibility Policy ‘represents the Australian Football League’s commitment to addressing violence against women and to work towards creating safe, supportive and inclusive environments for women and girls across the football industry as well as the broader community’. Hawthorn player Lance ‘Buddy’ Franklin is part owner of Nena and Pasadena and Neverland (clothing) store, a brand renowned for clothing with sexually objectifying and degrading imagery of women. Franklin currently features in promotional videos and images both on the brand’s website and in national clothing retailers like City Beach. Despite protests, the AFL have failed to address Franklin’s continued breach of the R&R policy. Why has the AFL failed to address this?”

Will we get more AFL spin? Will the sporting body that gives money to the White Ribbon campaign against violence against women continue to demonstrate it doesn’t really care that one of its key players trades in objectified and degrading images of women?

Let’s see. In the meantime, please vote!

For more on Buddy and his porn tees, read ‘AFL must act on Buddy Franklin’

September 9th, 2012

Tags: afl, Buddy Franklin, football, Nena and Pasadena, NRL, porn tshirts, sport, status of women, sunday herald sun, violence against women

4 Responses to “Make the AFL accountable: vote for our question on why the AFL refuses to act on Buddy Franklin’s porn tees to be asked at footy finals lunch”

Glynn
September 10th, 2012 at 2:05 pm

You’re clutching at straws referring to the tshirts as ‘porn’..

Guys like girls
(hot) girls on tshirts- what’s wrong with that?
Tabbie
September 10th, 2012 at 2:29 pm

Call it what you like, Glynn, the pics on these shirts – and believe me, the ones in the article above are by no means representative of the barrel Buddy has scraped the bottom of for his brand – present women and girls as pretty things good only for decoration or f**ing. If you can’t see anything wrong with that then perhaps you should go work for the AFL, none of them seem to have any problem with it either.
Ella
September 10th, 2012 at 2:54 pm

Glynn, when we start seeing naked, faceless men on all fours, then we can talk.

Except that would never happen.
Xdust
September 11th, 2012 at 9:17 am

Haha, Pay me what those girls get, and Ill do it.

Thats the thing isn’t it. The REASON you see women on all fours is that they make big money doing it. If Men made the same big money, they would do it also.

So, start paying, and you will have your pictures.

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