SteveJRogers Posted May 12, 2015 Report Share Posted May 12, 2015 The "Benoit is innocent" stuff is conspiracy malarkey. I find that kind of willful ignorance, in this specifc case, to be harmless. Like people who believe what they read in Weekly World News. I'll raise you those who, even all these years later, will troll the WWE with Benoit mentions. Be it CAW uploaded onto game servers, Krispin Wah signs and accounts read out loud on the air, I'm A Chris Benoit Guy shirts, etc. Its one thing to disagree with a private company's stance on a former employee, but the trolling does kick it up way too many notches. Almost to the point that it seems like the person is condoning or making light of what Benoit did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chief Posted May 14, 2015 Report Share Posted May 14, 2015 Here's one that's more humorous than disgusting, came up a lot during the Chris Brown incident - "Yeah, Punk should be the one to talk with the way he's treated women." Meaning that because he's had a few relationships, that somehow means he's abusive towards women. Despite no evidence that he's degraded women or treated them poorly. It's outside the realm of comprehension to some wrestling fans that a bachelor in his mid-30's has had more than one relationship in his life..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveJRogers Posted May 14, 2015 Report Share Posted May 14, 2015 Here's one that's more humorous than disgusting, came up a lot during the Chris Brown incident - "Yeah, Punk should be the one to talk with the way he's treated women." Meaning that because he's had a few relationships, that somehow means he's abusive towards women. Despite no evidence that he's degraded women or treated them poorly. It's outside the realm of comprehension to some wrestling fans that a bachelor in his mid-30's has had more than one relationship in his life..... Not too surprising with the hive mentality of "Social Justice Warriors" in terms of shaping the norms of societal interactions, and where the lines are in terms of behavior and joking around in terms of blatant misogyny and the like. On the flip side, it might be stereotypical to say, but I'd wager that those who knock Punk's number of women connected to in terms of "you can't say A because of B" would be bragging all over their social media feeds (or at least privately to friends) if they had the quantity and/or quality that Punk has had, even (and maybe especially) if they were just one night stands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilTLL Posted May 14, 2015 Report Share Posted May 14, 2015 Not too surprising with the hive mentality of "Social Justice Warriors" in terms of shaping the norms of societal interactions, and where the lines are in terms of behavior and joking around in terms of blatant misogyny and the like. Uh...yes, there's so much overlap between wrestling fans and Spooky Ghostest Warriors! Who of course all hold whatever barely-coherent straw opinion you've devised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveJRogers Posted May 14, 2015 Report Share Posted May 14, 2015 Not too surprising with the hive mentality of "Social Justice Warriors" in terms of shaping the norms of societal interactions, and where the lines are in terms of behavior and joking around in terms of blatant misogyny and the like. Uh...yes, there's so much overlap between wrestling fans and Spooky Ghostest Warriors! Who of course all hold whatever barely-coherent straw opinion you've devised. LOL! The point is that I can see wrestling fans parrot views expressed, or what they'd think is the politically correct way of expressing, by whatever is being determined as the right way of thinking on issues by a hive (or herd) mentality across social media platforms. Or at least express the one in particular to "show" that they aren't living up to the neanderthal like stereotype that most other social media platform users think wrestling fans would react to such stories as Punk going after Chris Brown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveJRogers Posted May 14, 2015 Report Share Posted May 14, 2015 Meaning that because he's had a few relationships, that somehow means he's abusive towards women. Despite no evidence that he's degraded women or treated them poorly. BTW, it should also bear mentioning that its even more funnier when you consider how little they know about Punk's relationships besides the number of reported women he's been linked to, therefore any put down of Punk because of that is pretty much ignorant of any sort of context towards how the relationships began and/or ended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted May 14, 2015 Report Share Posted May 14, 2015 Even more so considering how many wrestling fans acted like jilted lovers when Punk walked away from wrestling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broke Posted May 14, 2015 Report Share Posted May 14, 2015 Richard Sullivan trolling Ken Timbs' wife on OSW while Timbs was having heart surgery was pretty bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkdoc Posted May 15, 2015 Report Share Posted May 15, 2015 "Social Justice Warriors" reminder that this term was created by white supremacists between that and the 4chan associations it has now, i'd be glad never to see it again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkdoc Posted May 31, 2015 Report Share Posted May 31, 2015 i just remembered something that would fit perfectly here... anyone remember the former sean shannon, from rantsylvania? the general online reaction to her coming out as a transgender woman was pretty goddamn awful. and you can't give the excuse that this was years ago, because people mostly still go "hahahaha what a nut" today when it gets brought up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted May 31, 2015 Report Share Posted May 31, 2015 I'm not going to excuse the "tranny" talk, because it was absolutely real and doesn't look good at all. But Shannon was a legitimate nutjob for reasons having nothing to do with being trans and everything to do with...being a fucking nutjob. This is the person who seriously posited the conspiracy theory that after Bret divorced Julie he was going to make a move to marry Martha Hart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowboy hats Posted June 1, 2015 Report Share Posted June 1, 2015 shannon accidentally burned down the family house Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pantherwagner Posted June 1, 2015 Report Share Posted June 1, 2015 Well there was that DVDVR poster who faked his own death somewhere in the mountains of China or Nepal, just so he could drop his wrestling baggage and start with a clean slate as a reviewer of Korean TV dramas aimed at women. Or all the creepy pedo jokes being allowed at certain early 00's classic wrestling message boards (well, allowed if you were part of the circle that was allowed to do that), including some posters ALLEGEDLY making advances to underage women. Other than this place I do not frequent any wrestling message boards. I imagine that today's message boards have a lot more trolls, insults and flame wars, but the underbelly of some of the boards 15 years ago was quite an ugly place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted June 1, 2015 Report Share Posted June 1, 2015 Well there was that DVDVR poster who faked his own death somewhere in the mountains of China or Nepal, just so he could drop his wrestling baggage and start with a clean slate as a reviewer of Korean TV dramas aimed at women. Fucking Vanes Naldi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted June 1, 2015 Report Share Posted June 1, 2015 The internet used to be a smaller but weirder place. In part that was due to who was drawn to it before the age of social media. I include myself in that number, mind you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkdoc Posted June 3, 2015 Report Share Posted June 3, 2015 I'm not going to excuse the "tranny" talk, because it was absolutely real and doesn't look good at all. But Shannon was a legitimate nutjob for reasons having nothing to do with being trans and everything to do with...being a fucking nutjob. This is the person who seriously posited the conspiracy theory that after Bret divorced Julie he was going to make a move to marry Martha Hart. i'll grant that (don't remember what else she said/did besides taking rantsylvania down out of the blue), just sayin the other shit still pops up. also what matt d said is def true. social media & smartphones have changed the game for good, and some have to be dragged kicking & screaming into accepting this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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