Category: culture

I like soccer. But Rugby League is okay. Tonight I watched my first League game for a while. The Bulldogs (the team I go for) were denied a last-ditch win by a stupid decision by the video ref to the Dragons. Ah well… still a great game! As exciting as the game was, the news this week in the Rugby League world that will be remembered will be about 4 Corners, Matt Johns, “Claire” from Christchurch, half the Cronulla Sharks team and the ‘consensual’ sex romp they had in 2002. Most of the Australian bloggers I read have commented on it. Below is a snippet from Phillip Jensen on “League Hypocrisy”. It’s brilliant. Go read the whole thing in full.

“There used to be a saying that consenting adults can do whatever they like with and to each other. That is, until the problem of the rugby league players in Christchurch was aired on the Four Corners Show. The ethic of consent taught by the league’s ethical feminists does not understand the nature of human corruption. Under the right social pressure people will consent to all manner of harmful and damaging behaviour. […]

Some of the leaders of the code are saying that group sex, even when consensual, is wrong. Good on them. But the code’s ethics lecturer is saying anything is permissible provided it is with consent. She seems to have no problem with pornography – as if that industry is going to teach young men to “respect” women! […]

Men need to do better than respect women, or gain consent to use them or even accept their offers to be used. Men need to be taught the meaning of genuine love and the conquest of love over lust. For love does not use the other person but seeks what is in the other person’s best interest. If we want footballers to be role models of morality, a questionable confusion of categories caused by our media celebrity hype, they need to be shown how to enjoy a real and loving relationship of marriage and family life.”

Go read the whole thing in full. Seriously.