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DarkstarIV
Apr 6, 2010

OFFICIAL RACIST
Guess its time for another dose of WRESTLE FORUM DOT COM. Lets go back to a classic, misogyny.







For reference, this guy above is referring to how WWE needs to go back to the 90s/attitude era. "Also deplorable people pushing a feminist agenda!!!"







Apparently feminism is the root of all evil for some of these people.

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Aphrodite
Jun 27, 2006

Who still has a checkbook?

TinTower
Apr 21, 2010

You don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.
The women are taking up time that could be used to show Bo Dallas vs. Apollo Crews! :downs:

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
I'm surprised that guy uses the time to cook and clean when he could just make his girlfriend do it

Ah, right. He doesn't have one.

coconono
Aug 11, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!

Aphrodite posted:

Who still has a checkbook?

some civic fines require cash or check in person.

Low Desert Punk
Jul 4, 2012

i have absolutely no fucking money
what is it about pro wrestling that attracts the mentally ill like this?

I mean, all fandoms do, it definitely isn't as bad as video games, but jesus christ

bessantj
Jul 27, 2004


I like the third paragraph in the second post "Apart from the people that do like it no one like women's wrestling."

coconono
Aug 11, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!

Low Desert Punk posted:

what is it about pro wrestling that attracts the mentally ill like this?

I mean, all fandoms do, it definitely isn't as bad as video games, but jesus christ

because most people understand a prowrestling show to be wrestlers, a building and a ring. Silly people(some of which may infact have mental or emotional probs) tend to rush headlong into doing a show without realizing all the other stuff that needs to be done? Remember the dude that posted here about promoting and everyone told him to hand out fliers? And he looked at us like we're fuckin morons?

projecthalaxy
Dec 27, 2008

Yes hello it is I Kurt's Secret Son


coconono posted:

because most people understand a prowrestling show to be wrestlers, a building and a ring. Silly people(some of which may infact have mental or emotional probs) tend to rush headlong into doing a show without realizing all the other stuff that needs to be done? Remember the dude that posted here about promoting and everyone told him to hand out fliers? And he looked at us like we're fuckin morons?

That guy ruled. Does anyone have the link to his thread?

rare Magic card l00k
Jan 3, 2011


projecthalaxy posted:

That guy ruled. Does anyone have the link to his thread?

I'm pretty sure this is it?

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3747537&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

projecthalaxy
Dec 27, 2008

Yes hello it is I Kurt's Secret Son



It is! This dude was so cool and we are all so stupid for doubting him.

Low Desert Punk
Jul 4, 2012

i have absolutely no fucking money

I read through that thread and I'm genuinely shocked that promotion is still running shows

achillesforever6
Apr 23, 2012

psst you wanna do a communism?
Sorry to use your twitter Rov, but you are the only one who screenshotted this
https://twitter.com/SoDuTw/status/963743320743825410

DarkstarIV
Apr 6, 2010

OFFICIAL RACIST
I'm not going to dig through this wrestleforum thread too much (because :effort:), but here is the OP and a couple posts from the thread.







That last one is especially bad.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

How could ANYBODY want the Diva Search back? Seriously? How? It's not actually possible for anybody to want it back.

DarkstarIV
Apr 6, 2010

OFFICIAL RACIST

Jerusalem posted:

How could ANYBODY want the Diva Search back? Seriously? How? It's not actually possible for anybody to want it back.

Misogynists want it back because they feel like the women who currently wrestle are ugly and could easily beat the poo poo out of them in a fight.

Benne
Sep 2, 2011

STOP DOING HEROIN
Boy what a wacky coincidence that the white blondes are the only people who fit their definition of "attractive"

Aphrodite
Jun 27, 2006

The Maryse and Trish era he's talking about they were all orange blondes.

Gumball Gumption
Jan 7, 2012

American pop culture has pushed the narrative that white blond women are the most attractive for a very long time. I went to a live Smackdown like a year ago and some dude behind me obviously had not watched the product in a while and kept bitching about all the women and foreign wrestlers. I think of him everytime I see this forum.

coconono
Aug 11, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!
Oh Noes There's Too Many Ruby Riots!

Gaz-L
Jan 28, 2009
Which is hilarious because anyone who knows anything about how WWE works would know that any woman wrestler that looks like Ruby has like 0% chance of being hired now until Ruby is released, because they already have one inked-up alternative girl.

rovert
Jun 10, 2013

Jerusalem posted:

How could ANYBODY want the Diva Search back? Seriously? How? It's not actually possible for anybody to want it back.

We came close at WrestleMania 31 (2015) they announced the return of the Diva Search for that Fall. But they cancelled it for unexplained reasons.

For context Becky, Charlotte and Sasha debuted on the main roster that July.

Faustian Bargain
Apr 12, 2014


In the future I hope posts can be linked back to a personal profile so we can see the kinds of male models posting about how ugly Becky is.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

rovert posted:

But they cancelled it for unexplained reasons.

Even though this is pro-wrestling we're talking about, I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume the reason was,"A new diva search is a loving terrible, stupid, dumb idea that sucks."

coconono
Aug 11, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!

Jerusalem posted:

Even though this is pro-wrestling we're talking about, I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume the reason was,"A new diva search is a loving terrible, stupid, dumb idea that sucks."

I remember general consensus being groaning noises.

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Faustian Bargain posted:

In the future I hope posts can be linked back to a personal profile so we can see the kinds of male models posting about how ugly Becky is.

I probably don't have to say this but this is basically the grown equivalent of the little boy who pulls a girl's pigtails in kindergarten because he really likes her. These guys know they'll never get the chance, so they project like this. It's gross, arguably still better than the guys who do REALLY creepy poo poo like stalking and whatnot, but that's hardly praise.

Germansimp
May 28, 2013



Jerusalem posted:

Even though this is pro-wrestling we're talking about, I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume the reason was,"A new diva search is a loving terrible, stupid, dumb idea that sucks."

It was probably more "Kevin, if you are that desperate to wack it to blonde bimbos we'll pay you for a VR headset and a Pornhub account, a Diva search is way too expensive to satisfy your needs you pathetic buck-toothed loser."

Platypus Farm
Jul 12, 2003

Francis is my name, and breeding is my game. All bow before the fertile smut-god!

coconono posted:

Oh Noes There's Too Many Ruby Riots!

I remember when ruby (cue Nikki Cross whispering: rooooooobiiieeeee roooooobieee) came up in NXT and people were talking about how good she was on the indies. She hasn't shown much of anything in either nxt or on the main roster. I don't particularly care about her looks, but there's either a huge disconnect in how WWE lets her wrestle, or how people perceived her vs. how good she actually is in the ring.

Feels Villeneuve
Oct 7, 2007

Setter is Better.

Platypus Farm posted:

I remember when ruby (cue Nikki Cross whispering: rooooooobiiieeeee roooooobieee) came up in NXT and people were talking about how good she was on the indies. She hasn't shown much of anything in either nxt or on the main roster. I don't particularly care about her looks, but there's either a huge disconnect in how WWE lets her wrestle, or how people perceived her vs. how good she actually is in the ring.

hey it's Apollo Crews's music!!!!

Aphrodite
Jun 27, 2006

Apollo Crews does gorilla presses and standing shooting stars, the 2 coolest moves.

coconono
Aug 11, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!

Platypus Farm posted:

I remember when ruby (cue Nikki Cross whispering: rooooooobiiieeeee roooooobieee) came up in NXT and people were talking about how good she was on the indies. She hasn't shown much of anything in either nxt or on the main roster. I don't particularly care about her looks, but there's either a huge disconnect in how WWE lets her wrestle, or how people perceived her vs. how good she actually is in the ring.

Blowin out a knee, taking a significant cut on merch income and having to deal with anti-labor management will take the pep out of anyone.

Platypus Farm
Jul 12, 2003

Francis is my name, and breeding is my game. All bow before the fertile smut-god!

coconono posted:

Blowin out a knee, taking a significant cut on merch income and having to deal with anti-labor management will take the pep out of anyone.

Two of those things were completely voluntary though? Just from reading about it, it sounds like she was doing pretty well for herself on the indy circuit at least as far as number of bookings and holding various championships goes. Why give that up to take a big cut on your merch, get no benefits outside of [possible] health care, no retirement benefits, no set schedule, no guarantee of work, and having to deal with notoriously anti-labor management?

I get it for a guy like AJ or Joe who has been around the world a million times and just wants to sort of settle down, but for someone who is still up and coming, and already doing well, what's the point? Just to pad that resume?

edit: If apollo crews did eye pokes along with the press slams and standing shooting stars he'd pretty much be the best.

Max Coveri
Dec 23, 2015

by Athanatos
I want a new Diva Search so we can get another unscripted Diss the Diva segment with the contestants calling each other "cum-sucking gutter sluts".

dsriggs
May 28, 2012

MONEY FALLS...

...FROM THE SKY...

...WHENEVER HE POSTS!
I'm sure the fellas from wrestle forum would like that too

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Max Coveri posted:

I want a new Diva Search so we can get another unscripted Diss the Diva segment with the contestants calling each other "cum-sucking gutter sluts".

Is that from the same search where someone said their rear end was hungry and they sat in a pie?

I remember watching that and questioning both my wrestling fandom, AND whose fetish it was that wrote the segment

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

El Gallinero Gros posted:

I remember watching that and questioning both my wrestling fandom, AND whose fetish it was that wrote the segment

Ray Smuckles gets around.

Ktik
Jul 10, 2004

Mandy Rose was the one who called out Sarah Lee for being a ring rat on Tough Enough, and she's the future greatest female wrestler of all time, so maybe we just need more Tough Enough seasons, but female only casts?

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

El Gallinero Gros posted:

Is that from the same search where someone said their rear end was hungry and they sat in a pie?

I remember watching that and questioning both my wrestling fandom, AND whose fetish it was that wrote the segment

The eventual "winner" Christy Hemme had the hungry arse.

I don't get why anybody would want the Divas search back unless they wanted to group watch softcore porn with people around the globe.

Also remember how 2004 men's only Tough Enough prize was a million dollar contract and in the same year the Divas search prize was $250,000 contract? I mean the Tough enough contract was a piss take that meant the million dollars was split over four years and that it was only guaranteed for the first year, effectively making it one year $250,000 contract, but for a while WWE was openly saying that a woman was only worth a fourth of a man.

DarkstarIV
Apr 6, 2010

OFFICIAL RACIST
I decided to go revisit the thread this afternoon because I was done with work and I hate myself.



Same guy:



Different guy:



There are a bunch of other posts, but most of them are agreeing with the "Ruby Riott is ugly" guy or transphobia.

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Super No Vacancy
Jul 26, 2012

i'm unbookmarking this thread!

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