Malthouse doesn’t want the rules changed for women or men. He said he doesn’t like women playing footy.

So men aren’t allowed to have any opinions about women?

What rule changes for the women did he suggest?

Of course they are, but we're talking systemic and generational issues here, well beyond the Malthouse–Hope stuff, and in many cases it's not that men hold opinions on women's issues, it's that they're often held at the expense of all others and assume they know best and that any counter opinions are wrong.

I'm not saying Hope acted in the best or most appropriate manner, but just look at the gender profiling that's taken place in recent comments. Malthouse, hitherto slandered and dismissed by pretty much all of us on this site, has been suddenly elevated to expert on women's footy who's every word is accepted, while Hope has been dismissed pretty much universally and her opinion not accepted.

Neither Malthouse nor Hope has acted perfectly, but only one is being listened to. Some of that may be because of the way Hope reacted etc, and some of that criticism directed towards her behaviour may be warranted. However, as the only AFLW player involved in the discussion, Hope deserves to be heard.

It's difficult to discuss stuff like this because the specifics of the issue at hand get caught up in the much, much broader issue of gender imbalance. But why that bigger picture issue matters is that Hope has probably been told countless times by men why AFLW is crap, or why women should do this or that. That's after probably being laughed at when she was a kid if she said she wanted to play footy. And so it goes.

Anyway, I should have learnt by now it's not really worth trying to add a counter point to topics such as this. C'est la vie.

That would've been a really good question for Mo to ask Mick - but she was crying in the carpark posting shit on Instagram because someone said something she didn't agree with.

So did he say in a just general senses that there should be rule changes without going into details?

He hates rule changes and hates Women playing his sport.

He’s a dinosaur. One who we stupidly got sucked into his warped 1950s thinking.

Of course they are, but we're talking systemic and generational issues here, well beyond the Malthouse–Hope stuff, and in many cases it's not that men hold opinions on women's issues, it's that they're often held at the expense of all others and assume they know best and that any counter opinions are wrong.

I'm not saying Hope acted in the best or most appropriate manner, but just look at the gender profiling that's taken place in recent comments. Malthouse, hitherto slandered and dismissed by pretty much all of us on this site, has been suddenly elevated to expert on women's footy who's every word is accepted, while Hope has been dismissed pretty much universally and her opinion not accepted.

Neither Malthouse nor Hope has acted perfectly, but only one is being listened to. Some of that may be because of the way Hope reacted etc, and some of that criticism directed towards her behaviour may be warranted. However, as the only AFLW player involved in the discussion, Hope deserves to be heard.

It's difficult to discuss stuff like this because the specifics of the issue at hand get caught up in the much, much broader issue of gender imbalance. But why that bigger picture issue matters is that Hope has probably been told countless times by men why AFLW is crap, or why women should do this or that. That's after probably being laughed at when she was a kid if she said she wanted to play footy. And so it goes.

Anyway, I should have learnt by now it's not really worth trying to add a counter point to topics such as this. C'est la vie.

So did he say in a just general senses that there should be rule changes without going into details?

He hates rule changes and hates Women playing his sport.

He’s a dinosaur. One who we stupidly got sucked into his warped 1950s thinking.

He may well be a dinosaur but the bottom line is that for many of us to immediately challenge Mick's 'wrongfulness' just because Mo stormed out devalues Mo's credibility when she is talking to girls in schools about being empowered to have a voice, follow their dreams and challenge the status quo.

Sadly, and this is not my opinion but more an observation, Mo's emotional exit, posting on instagram and avoiding the issue the next day at a footy clinic does nothing but feed the stereotype that some men may have about women/emotions etc.

He may well be a dinosaur but the bottom line is that for many of us to immediately challenge Mick's 'wrongfulness' just because Mo stormed out devalues Mo's credibility

Regardless of how one person reacted, what does it say about the codger saying he doesn’t like women playing footy during that forum? He’s entitled to his opinion for sure but where’s the tact?

It would be good to hear what he actually said at the function but what he’s said subsequently proves we made a monumental blunder appointing him. He’s set us back so far it’s not too far fetched to think perhaps it was a Collingwood ruse all along.