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| Maybe if Bully Ray cares so much about women, he should police his roster's behavior Photo Credit: ROHWrestling.com |
But with how hard the Ring of Honor contingent is going on how much they respect women here, you'd think that they would run a tight ship with respecting the female fans that attend their shows, right? Well, as one might expect, that's not the case, as @donnatroy recounts in a Twitter thread. She does not name the wrestler or wrestlers who are guilty of yelling lewd things at her like soliciting oral and inviting her up to their hotel room. She brushed it off initially, which I feel was a mistake but it was her choice ultimately, because "it's just wrestling." She has only come forward because of the all-of-a-sudden care from ROH about this kind of behavior from fans.
Of course, you know my thoughts on the matter, that this push is bullshit because ROH has never cared about women and their treatment until it was the significant others of people in charge. I have pointed to the Seleziya Sparx coin-throwing incident a lot, but the company's storytelling has encouraged shit like this. ON that same card where Sparx was monetarily assaulted, they had Cheeseburger come out and force a kiss on Maria Kanellis, and they played it off as a babyface move.
The fact of the matter is that, yes, the treatment of women in wrestling, not just in ROH, but across the board is lacking and needs improvement. For anyone in ROH, especially Bully Ray, who made his bones saying the most vile shit in character to women, and Johnston, who has presided over so much misogyny in the company, to be at the vanguards calling it out is sketchy at best. It would be like WWE firing Big Cass1 because he too vocally supported Donald Trump. That did happen, by the way, which goes to show how many wrestling companies have rotten people in charge.
1 - This is not support of Big Cass, who sucks. It's just pointing out absurdity.