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Three in a row for Giants
Brent Daniels has marked and goaled to add to the lead for the visitors. This has been an exceptional opening term from them.
The Giants are wearing black armbands to honour Daniels’ grandfather who died this week.
GWS 33, Swans 18 with 1:51 to go in Q1.
Hogan adds to lead
Don’t look now but Jesse Hogan is up and firing.
The big key forward was tackled before he could get to the ball and he took his chance to boot a goal from that kick.
He’s currently second behind Harry McKay by two goals in the Coleman Medal race.
GS 27, Swans 18 with two mins to go in Q1.
Cadman kicks his second
Cadman again found room and this time he pulled in a mark and kicked his second goal.
The Giants have had some great service from Cadman and Brown so far.
GWS 21, Swans 18 with three mins to go in Q1.
Jordon goals
Swans midfielder James Jordon has taken his chance booting a long, bouncing kick from the edge of the centre square for a goal following a run out of defence from the home side.
More concerning for the Giants are reports star midfielder Tom Green has been helped off the field and is heading to the rooms for treatment. He would be a massive loss if injured.
Swans 18, GWS 15 with four mins to go in Q1.
Chad Warner shrugs off the tackle of Josh Kelly.Credit: AFL Photos
Brown puts Giants ahead
Callum M. Brown has pulled in a strong mark and goaled from about 30m out.
He is quite hard to slow down when he can run and jump at a contest.
GWS 14, Swans 9 with nine mins to go in Q1.
Callum M. Brown.Credit: AFL Photos
Cadman among best tackling forwards
Cadman responds for Giants
Giants forward Aaron Cadman found space on the wing and roosted a kick for goal from outside 50m and it sailed in.
Brilliant start for both clubs.
Swans 8, GWS 6 with 16 mins to go in Q1.
Rowbottom opens scoring
James Rowbottom has won a free kick and nailed his shot for goal to score the first major of the match.
It’s wet in Sydney today but both sides have looked pretty good with the ball in hand so far.
Swans 7, GWS 0 with 17 mins to go in Q1.
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The AFL’s ‘call to arms’ is a step forward. Shame about the steps backwards
By Julia Baird
For centuries, violence against women has been regarded as normal, private, “just domestic”, dismissed as female exaggeration and blamed on the bruised and abused. It’s even been insidiously romanticised as erotic – a man who wants a woman so much he’ll stalk her and beat her until she capitulates. Every step she takes, every move she makes, etc.
One of the most obvious examples of this is the term “wife-beater”, which has been used as a name for alcoholic beverages (rum made from sugarcane has been known as “the golden wife-beater”, and Stella Artois beer is often called “Wifebeater” in the UK), as monikers by professional wrestlers, and, most often, as a term for a sleeveless shirt. Men who wore “wife-beaters” were traditionally meaty, macho, muscular, often in trouble with the law, and from migrant communities. They looked like Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire (although, it has been pointed out, he wasn’t wearing one in the scenes where he raped or struck Stella).
Illustration: Simon LetchCredit: Sydney Morning Herald
Today, Gen Z has been trying to rebrand the shirt as a “wife-pleaser”, with #wifepleasertank racking up millions of views on TikTok, even though you can still buy “wife-beaters” on Amazon, eBay and Etsy. (On The Simpsons, Ned Flanders called his undershirt a “wife-blesser” while Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness has used the term a “wife-lover”.)
Even Louis CK – when, presumably, not masturbating in front of female comedians – made a joke about this, saying: “It was so OK to beat your wife until so recently that today we have a kind of shirt named after it.” Hahaha. Seriously, where’s the joke?
So why does this matter?
