Wilson leans strongly on the gender aspect of things; this scandal has brought about several mentions about males in the rugby league community, including ? but not limited to: ?The Rugby League bloke ?Mafia'?, ?the male bosses at Nine?, ?core group of male league reporters?. These people want to protect Matthew Johns, and it?s being alluded to that is because they are all blokey blokey and Bec?s the disgusted woman in this. Indeed ?female league fans? have been emailing her by the dozen. ?Female league fans who have partners or children have every right to feel disgusted and disappointed? apparently. I have a news flash for you Bec, you are not the spokeswoman for female League fans, for all the ?dozens? of emails that you got, I can tell you how many females I know that share your view, do you want to have a guess? I?ll give you a hint, it?s a number between -1 and 1.
Indeed someone tried to tell Rebecca Wilson that they didn?t agree with her point of view. For the record, Wilson said in her ?A culture of cringe? opinion piece that ?I was even forced to hang up on one shameful female radio jock in Brisbane who continued to insist she could not see any wrongdoing in Johns? behaviour and that I had a personal axe to grind. The rugby league culture is a sick bunny, indeed, when female football fans can find good in the poisonous?
For people who don?t know that ?shameful female radio jock? was Meshel Laurie on the Nova 106.9 breakfast show, and Laurie was trying to express a different point to what Wilson had peddled in her opinion pieces. The link is here, roughly 5 minutes in:
http://podcast.nova1069.com.au/nova1069_podcasts_140509.mp3
What Laurie was saying, for the deaf and/or lazy, was that she took exception at the comment where Bec says how ?most women? feel, as Laurie, quite rightly, doesn?t believe the same thing as Bec, nor does a lot of other people she knows. She believes, AS MOST PEOPLE DO, MALE AND FEMALE, that whilst it isn?t pleasant, What happened after that was a pure at of petulance, radio?s example of taking your bat and ball and running home to have a good old sook. ?Why have you got me on?? was where the interview turned sour and she has claimed to have ?500 emails in the past week ? (roughly 42 dozen for you playing at home) where ?80% of the emails received have been against Matty Johns, male and female?. Because others have have differing opinions just as much as Bec has differing letters in her inbox,apparently the people on Twitter have less of a valid opinion than the people using email. I find that strikingly odd to allude to the fact that one form of Internet is more worthy than another. The interview turned even more sour when Laurie made the assertion that she had a personal axe to grind against the Footy Show (which she does, everyone knows that), and she disputes that and says her axe to grind is with Rugby League culture (not AFL culture, where they also have massive women issues, not sport culture, RUGBY LEAGUE culture). The last sentences go as such: ?And you know what? Next time don?t ring me if you want an opinion, if you want a genuine, proper, grounded and informed opinion. Goodbye.? And with that she spits the dummy in a major fashion and hangs up because she didn?t get the audience she wanted, she got an opinion that?s shared with the majority of people it would seem. For someone as grounded and informed as Rebecca Wilson she surely acts very precious when the people she?s preaching to aren?t converted.
https://southpenrithcalling.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/rebecca-wilson-journalist/
