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Don't Look to Wrestling for Your Woke Daddies

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Ryan isn't your woke daddy, but no one in wrestling should be Photo Credit: Mikey Nolan Joey Ryan is known for two things nowadays: wrestling a style completely based around his penis and speaking up on Twitter on behalf of women wrestlers. It's garnered him a checkered reputation among the wrestling community, but generally, sex positivity and sticking up for women combine to allow anyone to accept the benefit of some modicum of doubt as whether or not they're a decent person. At the very least, it's a breath of fresh air from the rotten garbage that populates the wrestling industry, like noted statutory rapist Chasyn Rance and accused domestic abuser Adam Rose, right? Well, about that... Uh, okay. Of course, the paper-thin defense of Ryan being on the same show as these guys is that again, wrestling is full of creeps and cretins. Working on the same show as these guys isn't a principled stance most people on the indies can afford to take except Ryan has a fucking ...

#MeToo in the Wrestling Industry

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Arndt is in hot water, and the fact that he might escape justice altogether is an indictment of society Photo Credit: WWE.com The biggest news of the day yesterday was that a woman filed charges against Enzo Amore in Arizona. She took to Twitter to detail an account of drugging and sexual assault by Amore, real name Eric Arndt, facilitated by clothing designers Tyler Grosso and TOOPOOR. The linked tweet carries a content warning for sexual assault. The accuser is not the only one who has claim against Arndt, as she posted a screenshot from another person whom Arndt has allegedly assaulted. WWE took swift action and suspended Arndt yesterday. The suspension will be in effect until the case is either formally dismissed or he's found guilty, at which time he'll be reinstated or released respectively. I have no doubt that Arndt is guilty, but the legal system underserves sexual assault victims to a disgusting degree that it could end in a dismissal or an acquittal. Even in this a...