The reality is more nuanced than NRL players being blokey boofheads | Catharine Lumby

Every time they do the wrong thing, it is seen as confirmation that they’ll never change. The behaviour of a few tarnishes a whole code

As someone who has worked with the NRL as a gender adviser for over a decade the question I am almost guaranteed to get at a party is: “How do you persevere with those boofheads?”

It’s less a question about me, of course. It’s a statement about rugby league players. And, yes, there are stories in the media that reinforce the idea that guys who play NRL are all a pack of clowns who live to get on the grog, drop their strides and harass women.

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