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Being announced the same week as it was revealed they censored a dancer's "Protect the Dolls" t-shirt, and a month after they dropped Drag Race UK, I think it's understandable that a lot of people don't trust the BBC around trans issues at the moment.

Plus mirrors just confuse children, as they keep swiping on them trying to watch TikTok.

You'd think being the first wrestler on a new show would lead to more.

Two (presumably inter-promotional) angles that never went anywhere that I don't think have been mentioned: Jeff Jarrett attacking Hulk Hogan in NJPW, bloodying him up with a guitar shot. Atsushi Onita and The Sandman getting into it in ECW. I remember the Onita one seeming like a big deal very briefly - there was an assumption that we'd get a no-ropes exploding deathmatch or something.

I honestly think it's one of the most important films of the 20th Century. I also saw Digger over the weekend, and thought it was neither a disaster nor a masterpiece. It was fine. You're not missing out that much if you don't see it. You didn't make a mistake if you do see it. I do think it was a brave move to cast John Goodman in the film considering he would have knocked the ball out of the fucking park if he'd played Digger. I thought Cruise was just okay. With Goodman in the role, it'd have cost a lot less money and probably made less. But I'd have liked it more.

A short film of mine has finally been put online and free to watch. It was made in a small café in Tottenham as part of a project where seven different filmmakers made shorts. I wanted to do something real-time, and in mind of something like Before Sunrise. The two performers (CJ Halse and Cathy Conneff) are both fab. It did pretty well in festivals, which is a weird thing in itself - basically, you have to pay for each submission, and they can get quite expensive. Since I was going basically on no budget, this got into the ones I could apply to. It got a pretty high acceptance rate, and won a couple of awards. Most of the festivals were pretty small, but it's been shown in the US, Morocco and Barcelona, which is very cool to know. So yeah, I'd love to get some eyes on this. I wrote, edited and directed it.

My general headcanon is that Tony Khan doesn't mind a bit of interference. He's a promoter - there are matches where he cares about it, but overall, he's up for whatever makes an exciting show. But there's times he'll make clear not to do this.

I saw someone talking about people confusing 'detailed' with 'good'. And I think that's exactly what happens.

These things are complicated.

The Cornell rape story has been in my feed a lot recently, and it's leading to a lot of women asking men to do more. Especially around challenging misogynistic banter and the like. I read this article and really liked it, and there didn't seem an obvious place to share it. And we live in a patriarchy, so as a strangely-pooing, increasingly wrestling-ambivalent but bloke-heavy board, I figured it might be a useful thread to have as we all try to navigate our way through the patriarchy and not being dickheads. So, yeah. Patriarchy, rape culture, misogyny, etc. Let's figure out being good people and how we can influence others or do good where we can. The piece I'm talking about is by a sex writer, who does some really good stuff on feminism along with her erotica (so you can follow up the shot of this article with a gangbang fantasy chaser a couple of posts down). The point that really stood out to me was around backing other people up when they challenge people - and that's definitely something I've felt left out to dry on in the past, as well as supported at other times, and being supported went a lot better. https://www.girlonthenet.com/blog/how-to-be-difficult/

I'd just gently correct him when he says it - 'CYMK, not CMYK'. If he reacts to you doing so, just say you don't want him to get it wrong in front of a client or someone who might get weird about it.

S2I think the bleak strips are a genuine work of art. And, at times, feels like an acknowledgement of the ways capitalism makes life harder for people. It hits a reality that I really don't see portrayed elsewhere. Which is a warning over this strip, Fixed Odds Betty, that was shared on Reddit today. It has ruined my day and yet I find it incredibly funny.

Two different points. 1 - The issue isn't that WWE said he wasn't working for them - it's that they didn't say anything for a year, and once he started with AEW, they effectively told the Visa issuers that he was committing fraud. They didn't care about it until he signed with a competitor. All of this being stuff they never cared about before (and, worth remembering, they don't have employees). 2 - The "profiting" is a different thing. Some social media accounts that seem to be WWE affiliated have started calling for AEW to be investigated over steroids etc. Pretty sure that's what Bixenspan is referring to. I have time for Bixenspan. Back when I was trying to bring more attention to the Ashley Massaro affidavit, he was the only journalist that went into it before it became too big a story to ignore.

It's the fact that they tried to fuck with his visa is the point. Edit - the thread gives more context. In the early days of AEW, WWE snitched on him to immigration, which could have caused him to be banned from the US. Absolutely awful shit to pull.

I'm hesitant to put this in the Pac thread, just because it's so anger-inducing, but fuck me. What absolute ghouls those cunts are.