Ring Crew Commentaries: Slut Shaming

By Dubya

I first want to bring your attention to an article saying many of the same things I’m about to say.  It was written by Brandon of Uproxx called, “The Best And Worst of WWE Raw 2/20/12: About That Whole ‘Eve is a Slut’ Thing… and it can be found here.

I’m having a real hard time comprehending Raw last Monday.  That opening segment was one of those things that makes me embarrassed to be a pro wrestling fan.  I’ve seen worse.  I watched the WCW 2000 era.  I’ve also watched the WWF during the Attitude Era.  Hell, I remember how every heel female manager in ECW had to be a total whore.  Francine telling Justin Credible he wouldn’t get any “nookie” if he didn’t win the ECW Championship.  Yeah, I just reminded you of a Limp Bizkit song.  I swear, this article gets worse.  I remember all of these things, but I remember them during the TV-14 era when I was a 14 year old.  I’m almost 27 and watched a TV-PG show do the same material that used to happen 13 years ago, only it wasn’t a heel forcing a woman to do slutty things to keep her job like what Vince McMahon did to Trish Stratus.  This is “Be a Star/Rise Above Hate” John Cena, who apologized only months ago on his Twitter for comments against homosexuals and promised to no longer do that sort of thing slut shaming another part of “Be a Star” Eve. 

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Ring Crew Commentaries: Hulk Hogan. No job title. No good booking opinions. Dream rapist.

By Dubya

It was recently discussed on the Ring Crew Show about how Hulk Hogan doesn’t know what his job is in TNA/Impact Wrestling and his reasoning for convincing the company to change the finish at Bound For Glory in September.  I wanted to divulge a little more on these subjects in this week’s Ring Crew Commentaries.

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