Members of Sri Lankan women cricket team forced into ***ual favours

[TheJediBrah]

Why do we always have to jump to this line of thinking? FFS.

Because it happens?

Jumping to conclusions and accepting every allegation as true is a lot worse than making the suggestion that it's possible that every allegation isn't entirely true.

 

[vic_orthdox]

SLC confirm ***ual harassment claims against women's team officials | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[Zinzan]

Holy shizzers, I assumed this was a joke when I first saw the thread

 

[smash84]

Why do we always have to jump to this line of thinking? FFS.

That's a very reasonable line of thinking.

Needs proper investigation

 

[NZTailender]

That's a very reasonable line of thinking.

Needs proper investigation

The ministry said evidence of ***ual harassment was uncovered in an investigation begun last year.

Do people even bother reading articles these days?

 

[smash84]

Do people even bother reading articles these days?

wasn't that article posted after Dan's comment

 

[OverratedSanity]

wasn't that article posted after Dan's comment

No, I posted it in the OP.

Then again I can't blame you for not reading my posts. I wouldn't either if I had the choice.

 

[Stapel]

No, I posted it in the OP.

Then again I can't blame you for not reading my posts. I wouldn't either if I had the choice.

TBH, there is not that much info in that article. Without juming to conclusions or minimalising a truely rotten ways, we simply cannot know what has been going on.

Members of Sri Lanka's women's cricket team were forced to perform ***ual favours to keep their places in the team, the sports ministry has said.

The ministry said evidence of ***ual harassment was uncovered in an investigation begun last year.

Being forced to perform ***ual favours is not in the same cathegory as ***ual harassment. I think any journalist in the world should be careful to write it down.

To join in on the speculation:
-Being a selector, hinting that having *** might increase selection chances, is a very nasty way to go, yet probably easily and rapidly done. Possibly without thinking things over.
-Being a dropped player, and being the victim of ***ual harassment, it is an easy step to make things worse.

IMHO, there are various more or less plausibel ways. Some just nasty, some rotten to the bone.

 

[NZTailender]

TBH, there is not that much info in that article. Without juming to conclusions or minimalising a truely rotten ways, we simply cannot know what has been going on.

Members of Sri Lanka's women's cricket team were forced to perform ***ual favours to keep their places in the team, the sports ministry has said.

The ministry said evidence of ***ual harassment was uncovered in an investigation begun last year.

Being forced to perform ***ual favours is not in the same cathegory as ***ual harassment. I think any journalist in the world should be careful to write it down.

To join in on the speculation:
-Being a selector, hinting that having *** might increase selection chances, is a very nasty way to go, yet probably easily and rapidly done. Possibly without thinking things over.
-Being a dropped player, and being the victim of ***ual harassment, it is an easy step to make things worse.

IMHO, there are various more or less plausibel ways. Some just nasty, some rotten to the bone.

A favour is something you do in exchange for that person doing something for you in return.

So giving some official a BJ in exchange for being selected in the team is indeed a 'favour'. It's heinous and the word 'favour' completely takes the sheer disgustingness out of the situation. They were forced into the favour, in that if they wanted to play they'd have to do that.

There is no allegations. An investigation has happened and SLC is saying this.

 

[TheJediBrah]

I still can't believe that this is legit. Its just so twisted and ****ed up. Especially since it's in a country where women probably don't have as many rights (?) so they'd be less likely to object and contact authorities.

 

[harsh.ag]

I still can't believe that this is legit. Its just so twisted and ****ed up. Especially since it's in a country where women probably don't have as many rights (?) so they'd be less likely to object and contact authorities.

This only makes it more likely for it to happen, so yeah. Would be far more surprised if it happened in, say, England.

 

[Stapel]

A favour is something you do in exchange for that person doing something for you in return.

So giving some official a BJ in exchange for being selected in the team is indeed a 'favour'. It's heinous and the word 'favour' completely takes the sheer disgustingness out of the situation. They were forced into the favour, in that if they wanted to play they'd have to do that.

There is no allegations. An investigation has happened and SLC is saying this.

Yeah, I guess we agree here. It's not in the word favour, but in the word forced. I was trying to say that forced to perform *** is very bad. But ***ual harassment not per se.

 

[Furball]

um, yes it is.

Sri Lanka should be kicked out of international cricket if there's any truth in this.

 

[harsh.ag]

Sri Lanka should be kicked out of international cricket if there's any truth in this.

Yeah! Punish the players who were the victims of ***ual predatory... wait, what??

 

[Furball]

No place in the game for a board who's prepared to ***ually abuse and exploit their employees.

 

[Daemon]

listen to yourself furball

 

[Red]

Or maybe the ICC plays the heavy on the board and demand the scum resign and SL cricket assembles a board without creeps on it and everyone wins except the arseholes?

 

[Maximas]

Or maybe the ICC plays the heavy on the board and demand the scum resign and SL cricket assembles a board without creeps on it and everyone wins except the arseholes?

Funny this should be brought up, in april the sports ministry (the same people who launched the investigations into this incident) appointed a board to attempt to clean up SLC after years of money/politics influencing election results and keeping ****s involved at the top in SL, the result was SL temporarily lost their funding from the ICC and everyone here seemed to think we had it coming iirc.

Furball's suggestion is of course absurd