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Some times I think I completely understand JvK's sense of humor (even if I find it not funny) and others I'll left really scratching my head I really can't tell if this post was meant in jest from the beginning or if it was a text book light satire glaze over a serious point. Yes people see it that way when they are accounting for intent as I said if the idea is "People won't know he's not actually Japanese as long as he does these stereotypical things" then yes it's as racist as black-face.

I was thinking about it until I saw the sheer volume of stuff from wXw that is on the Highspots Network and I'm not one of these people that needs to see everything ASAP so I'm fine waiting a bit to see it later on so I'll work with if they stop uploading everything I will think about the season pass. I know people to have moral or principal issues with High Spots something that kept me from signing up as quickly as I normally would have as well but now that I have it I really appreciate the service it has a really varied and gigantic library of worthwhile stuff

I am now aware that I mixed up T-Bone and Stixx everyone feel free to point an laugh

What I see more from them isn't an we are all one mentality but a more if I just play to this stereotypes people will believe I am of this other race which I find to be very racist in that they actually believed that other races could easily be boiled down to those basic stereotypes. I was really kind of hoping this was going to be a goof about Harley Race. I believe you mean to say trans-racial performers I was really kind of hoping this was going to be a goof about Harley Race

Black people really are lucky that white people in America didn't take this stance when it came to being Abolitionists

I have quickly become a huge fan of his check these out

If only Byg Ryk had pulled a knife on one of the crew

There is a massive amount of Brookes on youtube starting with this He also has been working in a tag team called calamari catch kings with Mondai Lykos in attack and Jon Gresham in WXW both companies are pretty easy to watch especially WXW as it's on the Highspots network

Timothy Thatcher and all the other grapple-fuckers in RINGS/UWFI/BattleArts and vice-versa Volk Han in Evolve Matt Tremont or Necro Butcher in FMW And the real fun could Ric Flair get over in modern WWE?

I think my recent most about Feminism belongs in here Obviously I think this is a great idea thank you so much

RPW is so impressing me lately I am starting to like it more than Progress for straight action but Progress still gets me excited with their longer form storytelling. OTT is putting on amazing stuff but it's getting hard to keep up with. And I'm such a huge fan of ATTACK right now because they are the only company really pushing Chris Brookes who is probably my current favorite grapple-fuck/WOS type guy.

No it's not. That's the basis and premise and sadly that's not even met. Yes Trump would say that and then disprove he actually believes it by mocking a female reporter. He clearly treats women different than men. The term has been co-opt by conservatives and used to mean radicalized militant misandry

That is kind of what I was touching on with the stuff about rats so really I'd love to talk about that as well

It's true in every sport though. In most sports they keep their tops on. Cena walks around semi-naked and has a six-pack. Sasha Banks has BOSS written across her arse. It's a more body-centric and image-centric medium than many other sports. I was going to point out this is true about everything I mean as long as you have a physical body while doing your job someone is judging you based on it and based on what they expect from you due to your designated gender but, my point over all is more or less exactly what Jimmy hit on that there is no one size fits all answer not just for wrestling but for life. So really we need to all just be more open to everything is probably the first step to the fandom in general being more all inclusive.

I get your point but I would counter that I was a feminist before I was a wrestling fan and that's part of why I was less of a fan of WWE Attitude Era probably what drove me to focus more on shoot style and dryer wrestling products because I would rather see no women than have them represented so poorly To be fair when that chant started it fit with her character as a goating chant because she was a heel and the crowd knew it would get under her skin similar to asshole or what chants

This is a something I’ve meant to write for quite some time but, never got around to it. With the end of the PWO-GWE project and a recent post by Dylan Hales I knew it was time for it at least to show that there is a place for the conversation. What is truly a “Feminist” stance on a woman place in pro-wrestling and what is a “proper” inter-gender match? (Not to be confused with trans-gender gimmicks something I’m stuff not even sure about) There has been an argument among everyone involved with wrestling including fans, workers, promoters, journalists, and even outsiders about the place of women in the wrestling world. As some might believe old timers saw them only as rats there for the boys (which does include females) to use for their own pleasure. Treating them the same as any mark the difference being rather than part with their money they wanted them to part their legs. Over time women seem to have this pesky instinct to want to be treated like people so they found ways to sneak into the business some using their sexuality on and off screen to find their way into the boys club. I’d like to take a moment to explain my statement earlier that women are included in the group titled “The Boys”. The boys a term used to mean the workers or wrestlers in the back is not masculine in nature when in the context of wrestling vernacular. As any linguist worth his salt will tell you English is a living language constantly changing based on connotation of words becoming the new definition those words. One of the boys is someone you trust more closely than anyone because you have to trust your life to them be it literally in ring or figuratively from your livelihood based on how well a show will draw and if your crew is the shits well you won’t be drawing very well. Sorry for that diatribe. Now if you look at modern wrestling and the roles women play it’s very obvious that they now can easily fill them all production, management, and performance but, the real question is what is the true feminist position for women as wrestling performers? For women to truly be equal to men are they to have their own separate but equal divisions or even companies? The argument there being that women should have all the same opportunities and spots as men. I can see an argument that a women only promotion is truly a feminist ideal as having women’s matches that are not the only drawing force on shows where men’s matches are drawing the bulk of fans could be seen as subsidizing the women and not truly giving them the equal responsibilities the men have to support themselves. A concept, something I have heard stated by Joe Lanza of Voices of Wrestling, that throwing one women on a card wrestling a man is an issues because you are essentially stealing a spot for another women by having an inter-gender match. While I’d say Lanza is far from a feminist scholar this is a point that resonated me at times. Are inter-gender matches inherently sexist? They are matches where men and women are theoretically being treated one-hundred percent as equals but does that get to the true root of what feminism really means and does it always play out that way in practice? I would never decry an entire or genre as sexist, racist, or really any ‘ist the world is full of gray areas. Many times there are underlying and problematic themes to inter-gender matches that include but are not limited to: rape, domestic abuse, dismissive treatment of women, and objectification. When an inter-gender match is done properly to suit the ideals of feminism all competitors are competing based on their merit and sex is left completely off the table. So what is the right answer, is it separate but equal or is it full integration? What is feminist wrestling, is it female world champions or women’s specific championships? What is even sexism in wrestling, is it using women to fit an over-sexualized role or is it excluding them all together? Like most things there is no right answer that suites every occasion but, much like pornography I know a bad inter-gender match when I see it and a lot of times Joey Ryan is involved.

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Agreed. But given the number of non-contract guys they'll be using, I wonder how much of it they'd do. Will they take the time to explain/show who Jack Gallagher is when he may only be around for one match? This is WWE afterall. The fact that they're evening ATTEMPTING this is to their credit, but at their core they are what they are. I can't imagine any of the guys being brought in from outside are going to be out it the 1st rounds I'd expect most of them getting similar treatment as Gargano and Ciampa did in the Dusty tag tourney

The same top two as my ballot (in fact I had the top four the same) and I predict it Flair over Funk the reason to me and this is in some ways arbitrary but, when you are comparing two men that really are equals in greatness it comes down to arbitrary differences, Funk lives wrestling while Flair couldn't live without wrestling.

If they don't do background and use this to build stars they are fools

Still untangling my brain from trying to read this sentence. My God, man, where's the punctuation? THINK OF THE CHILDREN! There's a hypen

He can change it in 2026. This is acceptable

No I don't my point is the what if is that I believe it could or would have effected his legacy maybe only slightly but still at least some the example of Tenryu is there he was 13 I could easily see Misawa after a 5-10 year run as a washed up over weight old guy at the same place not a huge change but a change.

I would say that Misawa didn't as clearly bookend his career because he was still active with no sign of retiring, within I'd say conservatively the next 5 years liberally 10, before his untimely passing so it could be contended that he would have done more to add to or detract from his case which leaves that little bit of open-endedness to his career that the other do not have even-weirdly, Funk who is still wrestling feels like his career is very much concluded because over the past few years it has become very obvious exactly what he can produce with his body completely broken down and it has in no way really effected his over all case. A very odd nit to pick I know but reading your break down made me feel inspired this fine Friday morning Meltzer said Misawa was actually talking about doing a retirement tour soon in the months leading up to his death. Also just look at how he was moving in his last year. There is no way he could have wrestled 5 more years unless you just mean doing tags where he spends the match on the apron and only does a few elbows. That is exactly what I meant people were already starting to sour on him and in some ways it tarnish his legacy I think if he had stuck around he would have ended up with something similar to Tenryu's last few years with one or two big time performances with younger guys sprinkled in and at the end of the day he wouldn't been seen in the same light he is today. Once again we live in the world the way it is not they way it could be but it's a major what if. On a side note who voted Misawa 86? I could almost accept 100 just as a "I hate AJPW" troll vote but who really sized the man up and said "Hmm yeah 86 seems right"? I mean honestly?

I will absolutely die if they do some promo vignettes for Gentlemen Jack Gallagher on NXT leading up to the GCS I don't know if people realize how over his gimmick will be at Fullsail.