The Aussie rules football community has rallied around AFLW player Tayla Harris after a photo of her was the subject of disgusting comments online.
Channel Seven’s 7AFL Twitter account posted the photo by Michael Willson of Tayla right after booting a footy during Carlton’s win over the Western Bulldogs on Sunday.
But within hours, it had attracted dozens of awful comments, some mocking the Carlton forward, the worst sexualising her.
The administrator behind 7AFL decided to take down the photo on Tuesday and release a statement.
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I just want to know what the comments were.
I mean, sure, I get that if they're derogatory then why perpetuate them, but my problem is there is an arsehat on youtube suggesting that he saw women sexualising David Beckham all the time but there was no outcry over it so this arsehat concludes it's all a storm in a teacup. Just the women getting their knickers in a twist. Now I strongly suspect this is a false equivalence. That the comments made about about Tayla's photo were (very) likely rapish, or sexually demeaning. But how can I point out how crap this arsehat's comparison is if I don't actually have anything to compare it to?
All I can find is articles about how derogatory the comments were, but I can't find the actual comments.
On a football field in Australia the garden of Eden tayla Harris a beautiful woman kicked the leather off a sherran the timing and execution was non other than perfect well done tayla.also the person person who took the photo