Players' Privates

Reasons I Don't Buy Women's Magazines #4: Their articles are usually regarding people about whom I truly don't give a fuck, mainly those whose initials are 'K' and whose backsides could double as a helipad.  They usually abound with the latest inanity committed or stated by a Z-list wannabe, or someone whose claim to fame is participation in an asinine reality television show.  We are told about the 'amazing weight loss' of some actress who peaked around 1993 in a rom-com, or else how some WAG regained her pre-pregnancy figure as she was being wheeled from the delivery room to the maternity ward, newborn sprog (probably named after a figure in Norse mythology) cradled in her skinny arms.

Anyway, they've struck a new low, so it would seem.  Woman's Day is running photographs of two AFL players in the nuddy.  Oh, don't worry; they are going to hide the wedding tackle.  But these photographs were provided in dubious circumstances.  The players in concern 'sexted' nude pics of themselves to some women who were not their respective WAGs.   The recipients of the pics appear to have provided them to this tabloid mag.  For what gain?  I'm guessing it goes a little like 'ker-ching!', because I understand the names of the women are not revealed, so it can't be for fame. Is it perhaps a revenge porn type of thing?  I dunno.  I hope the women who sent the pics to this odious excuse of a magazine enjoy their metaphorical thirty pieces of silver. 

Presuming the recipients of the nude photographs are also adults, and not unhappy to receive those photographs, why the hell should everybody bloody care what these boofheads are doing?  To those of you who say the club should taken action, I say this: What the fuck for?  Presuming the players didn't breach any club social media conduct clause, then mind your own freaking business.  And even if they did, still mind your own freaking business.  Does a sexted phone-to-phone correspondence actually count as 'social media' anyway? 

Running this ludicrous article achieves nothing, except heartache and embarrassment for the players' partners. 

I'm sick of lame-arse comments about how these men are expected to set an example.  Why?  They're footballers, fer chrissakes!  Do you expect a session similar to an audience with Gore Vidal?  What about YOU being a role model for your kid?

I read today, and hope with every fibre of my being it is a hoax, that Kanye West is planning to record a Bowie tribute album.  Mate, please, just.. don't.  Your cover of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' at Glastonbury was enough to strip the enamel from my teeth.  As much as I loathe change dot org petitions, if somebody circulated one calling for this to not eventuate, I just might click and sign.