{"id":77187,"date":"2025-08-18T10:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T10:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77187\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T10:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T10:25:07","slug":"is-snoop-dogg-really-who-we-need-for-the-afl-grand-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77187\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Snoop Dogg really who we need for the AFL Grand Final?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love the footy. AFL is part of Melbourne\u2019s DNA, and it\u2019s one of our most successful exports to the rest of the country. But I don\u2019t love AFL that much that I want to sell my soul.\u00a0 Our streets are awash with domestic abuse, where women (and children) live in fear and where indescribable things take place. As a society, we are meant to be learning and improving, even with the likes of Andrew Tate and Doug Wilson espousing their grotesque language and imagery. And then the AFL announces with pride,\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018I know what we need: let\u2019s\u00a0 display our sport to the world and entertain the masses with a man who raps about demeaning women.\u2019<\/p>\n

Last month, the Carlton Football Club wore orange on their match-day jumper to promote gender equality and prevent violence against women. Well done, Navy Blues,\u00a0our season may be a failure but this one was a win. Two weeks later, AFL CEO Andrew Dillon announced that Snoop Dogg would headline the AFL Grand Final entertainment.<\/p>\n

How does the AFL square their stance on violence against women while inviting Snoop \u2018let me find another vile word to say about women\u2019 Dogg, to be the headline act on Grand Final day?<\/p>\n

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Bewildering is one word. If the rapper has genuinely repented and changed his life around, that\u2019s one thing. We should and do believe in forgiveness. However, Snoop Dogg is on the record<\/a> saying that while his attitudes towards women have changed, he doesn\u2019t regret the songs he once wrote (and which continue to be played millions of times every month).<\/p>\n

Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. is one of the biggest names in the music industry, and the sporting world seems to love him, from the Super Bowl to the Olympics, and to the world of Menulog!<\/p>\n

He certainly has charisma and a thing for wearing sunglasses, but I doubt these are the reasons why the AFL is paying Snoop Dogg a truckload of cash to perform at this year\u2019s Grand Final.<\/p>\n

The dude is a singing misogynist, with lyrics so explicit in their sexism and degradation of women, if the AFL paid me what their paying the Dogg, I still wouldn\u2019t share the words here. Those who know his songs know exactly what I mean, and those who don\u2019t are better off. The issues don\u2019t end with his songs, but with a litany of allegations and cases that have been brought against Snoop Dogg since the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n

What kind of artist could we promote for families on Grand Final Day? What kind of music will help younger men think well of women? What kinds of songs tell us better stories? Is there no one available in our big big world who can sing, dance and perform? Even silent Snoopy the Dog would be a better choice.<\/p>\n

Andrew Dillon, we\u2019re not pooping on the party; we just don\u2019t need Snoop Dogg, or a 100 other hip hop gold wearing, pyjama wearing artists who make Pablo Picasso look like a PG rated artist.<\/p>\n

By the way, if you\u2019re wondering how men should relate to women, it wouldn\u2019t hurt to pay more attention to the old book. The old book isn\u2019t so old. Its relevance is just what we need in our age of utter confusion about gender, sex and relationships. Take ,for instance, this advice that the Apostle Paul gave to a young bloke named Timothy, \u201cTreat younger men\u00a0as brothers,\u00a0\u00a0older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Or these age words written to a man named Titus,\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cencourage the young men\u00a0to be self-controlled.\u00a0\u00a0In everything set them an example\u00a0by doing what is good.\u00a0In your teaching show integrity, seriousness\u00a0\u00a0and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned.\u201d<\/p>\n

I guess it\u2019s not sexy enough, not enough risk and hormones letting fly<\/p>\n

Or take the story from the book of Judges, when Israel responded to the horrific incident of a woman being raped and murdered: they went to war against the offending tribe.<\/p>\n

Will wise heads prevail? Will the allure of profit win the day? Or will we pay and praise a misognist in front of our daughters, mums and wives?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I love the footy. AFL is part of Melbourne\u2019s DNA, and it\u2019s one of our most successful exports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-77187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}