Posts by Megan Wegan
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4 mins long and extremely graphic.
Dude. that was horrible.
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My favourite is this one.
He'd just been called for a (completely justified) intentional foul. Then he walked over to the other ref and said "We're not playing netball here, you know"
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I reckon there's a useful public service ad in that.
My life as a public service ad? Have at it.
But yeah, I believe I said somewhere on the internet when the ad first came out, that maybe the story could have been told from the point of view of, if not a man who date raped his girlfriend, then maybe the guilt of the friends who left her alone in town, drunk and vulnerable.
But I still don't think that works particularly well, and a "don't rape/assault people" ad would be better.
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So I hope we'll get a blog post for the basketball?
Well, I have been bugging Hadyn, but in the meantime I'm sure Mike won't mind me linking to his great photos.
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While I'm gone, Megan and Danielle are in charge of voicing my opinion, k?
Ooooooo, the power!!
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Is that just my perception, that he's portrayed as doing what he does entirely coldly and deliberately?
No, the shifty glance around, and the ominous music as he drags her up the alley say that to me too. Why yes, I have spent far too much time thinking/talking/watching/arguing/screaming about this ad.
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the flocks of drunken popsies in handkerchief dresses and high heels tottering around the Viaduct at midnight.
But that's part of the thing that annoyed me about that ad. I get plenty drunk and totter around town on occasion, but I would never leave one of my friends in that situation, and I'd be furious if they did it to me.
I am exactly that ad's target audience, being of the getting way too drunk after work and making stupid decisions age, and there are so many ways they could have reinforced the safety message to me that wouldn't have made me want to hurl my television through a window every time it came on.
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I only watched 2 quarters of the netball, so I don't really have much to say about that.
But, I was at TSB stadium last night, as was Hadyn, and would just like to say: OH HELL YES.
The kiwis out-played the Aussies all over the floor, wiping the smile off their collective smug face. It was awesome to watch. And the best crowd I've been in for ages.
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The thing is, Sacha, that a young lady with good self-esteem & a knowledge of martial arts
Um....yeah, I am young (ish) lady with good (possibly too good) self esteem and if not a knowledge of martial arts, a good few years of kickboxing classes at the gym.
And the ad made me want to tear my own eyes out.
And the ALAC ads are trying to be all-inclusive
I think what the ad was trying to do was to remind people that when you are drunk you put yourself at risk. It failed spectacularly, mostly because it ignored the actual risks (as Emma pointed out) women face.
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@stewart
Yeah, Ok, there's some hyperbole in that statement. But I, and a lot of people, felt that the Lisa ad was unnecessarily victim blaming, and are still, like Craig said, frustrated by ALAC's refusal to acknowledge the complaints.
Like Danielle said up the thread, most women don't need to be reminded the world is a biig dark scary misogynist place, and it would be nice, once in a while to see a campaign targetting the perpetrators of violence, rather than the victims of it.