Look, I'll be honest. I didn't start watching pro wrestling regularly until 2001. Then I stopped around 2006 and didn't pick it up again until 2010. I admit it, I'm nowhere near as big a fan as most. I can take it or leave it. I don't have decades of wrestling knowledge at my hands. But, what I do know is that the year is 2015 and after recent events, I don't think everyone realizes that.
Let me paint a picture for you. It's the 90s, we're sitting in a crowded bingo hall in Philadelphia. The crowd is chanting "whore" and "slut" and "bitch" at Daphne and Maxine. Everyone is having a great time. There's also a guy jumping off a balcony 50 feet in the air high on cocaine. Then we go over to this other major show. There's a stable of white guys dressed in black face and mimicking black wrestlers. The crowd eats this segment up.
In the 90s it was acceptable for wrestlers to run around in black face. It was acceptable to call women bitches and whores. It was acceptable because they simply didn't know any better. The difference is it's 2015. We've moved close to creating a society where everyone feels welcome no matter their race, sex, religion, sexual orientation or anything else. We should understand that there's just certain things that aren't acceptable anymore.
On the episode of Raw after Wrestlemania 31 the crowd did something that wasn't acceptable. During a women's match they started some chants. "You suck Cena" "You Suck Uso" "You suck Tyson" and the likes. Alluding to the men these women were in relationships with. The crowd chanted to these women about giving blow jobs in an attempt to shame them and it's just not okay.
The entire crowd didn't participate in these chants and majority attempted to drown them out when they heard the chants. The point is, it's not okay. The big argument that people are making is "Worse things have been chanted in the 90s." Here's the thing, we're not in the 90s. It wasn't acceptable then either. The only difference is not a lot of people were willing to step up to shut it down. The same people that advocate these chants are the same people that would be disgusted if I showed up to their moms job and chanted "You suck dick" through her shift. So why would it be acceptable to chant it to these women?
These are the same people who complain about not being able to grope cosplaying women at comic conventions. These are the same people that complain about women wearing more clothes in video games recently. It's disgusting and creepy. The reason a lot of people don't mention they're wrestling or comic fans publicly is people like you. I take it back, you're not stuck in the 90s. You're stuck in creep land. You want to go unchecked saying whatever you want to women because it's your right or because you hate SJWs and how PC our society has become.
When someone says they're a wrestling, comic, or anime fan it's you that comes to mind. The midlife crisis guy who can't have fun unless he's walking the borderline of sexual assault and offensive. It's a bad look and you need to get out of that phase. You can make any argument you want but it doesn't change the fact that you're a creep.
You can hear Darrell on the CP Time and Powerbomb Jutsu podcasts. He's also playing Pokemon Liquid Crystal on YouTube
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Let me paint a picture for you. It's the 90s, we're sitting in a crowded bingo hall in Philadelphia. The crowd is chanting "whore" and "slut" and "bitch" at Daphne and Maxine. Everyone is having a great time. There's also a guy jumping off a balcony 50 feet in the air high on cocaine. Then we go over to this other major show. There's a stable of white guys dressed in black face and mimicking black wrestlers. The crowd eats this segment up.
In the 90s it was acceptable for wrestlers to run around in black face. It was acceptable to call women bitches and whores. It was acceptable because they simply didn't know any better. The difference is it's 2015. We've moved close to creating a society where everyone feels welcome no matter their race, sex, religion, sexual orientation or anything else. We should understand that there's just certain things that aren't acceptable anymore.
On the episode of Raw after Wrestlemania 31 the crowd did something that wasn't acceptable. During a women's match they started some chants. "You suck Cena" "You Suck Uso" "You suck Tyson" and the likes. Alluding to the men these women were in relationships with. The crowd chanted to these women about giving blow jobs in an attempt to shame them and it's just not okay.
The entire crowd didn't participate in these chants and majority attempted to drown them out when they heard the chants. The point is, it's not okay. The big argument that people are making is "Worse things have been chanted in the 90s." Here's the thing, we're not in the 90s. It wasn't acceptable then either. The only difference is not a lot of people were willing to step up to shut it down. The same people that advocate these chants are the same people that would be disgusted if I showed up to their moms job and chanted "You suck dick" through her shift. So why would it be acceptable to chant it to these women?
When someone says they're a wrestling, comic, or anime fan it's you that comes to mind. The midlife crisis guy who can't have fun unless he's walking the borderline of sexual assault and offensive. It's a bad look and you need to get out of that phase. You can make any argument you want but it doesn't change the fact that you're a creep.
You can hear Darrell on the CP Time and Powerbomb Jutsu podcasts. He's also playing Pokemon Liquid Crystal on YouTube
Follow @OriginalKingD
Its crazy that they chanted that to the Divas. I would have personally kicked their asses for that.
ReplyDeleteYeah, they were way out of line that night & pissed off a lot of the wrestlers.
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