Thread by @KalindaVK

Okay, Roxy. I'm going to chill out on the insults and mocking for a little bit and explain this to you properly.

For the most part professional wrestling doesn't have the strict weight divisions that other combat sports do.

Open weight, open gendered divisions mean... 1/?

That somebody your size can potentially be made to fight against some hypothetical 7'6" 600 pound man-mountain.

The same with any tag team titles.

A gendered, open weight division means that itty bitty you can end up facing great big me because we're both women. 2/?

If you wanted to fight people your size and only your size you should have gone into boxing, MMA, or a martial art where divisions and titles are much, much more weight structured.

But you didn't. You decided to go into professional wrestling.

The bar is abysmally low. to.. 3/?

...qualify as a professional wrestler. This makes it possible for people with good looks & a reasonable amount of athleticism to hit the ring with only a basic amount of actual hand to hand combat capacity.

This goes double for female wrestlers, & there's a reason for that. 4/?

Her name is Moolah, and if hell is a real place she'll be burning their in agony right now.

The reason that most low-grade women's wrestlers have a moveset that consists entirely of punch, kick, hairpull, clothesline, snapmare, bodyslam, with the usual lot of holds and pins. 5/?

Because that was basically all that Moolah could do, or that Moolah wanted to do.

And somehow she became the most popular women's wrestler in the United States.

And she singlehanded destroyed women's wrestling. 6/?

Because she wasn't just a wrestler. She was, I use the terms loosely, a trainer, an agent, and a PR manager.

On top of the fees to train women's wrestlers, she made them live in properties she owned.

She took her cut of the profits and left her "clients" with pennies. 7/?

I'm pretty sure she also pretty much pimped out her "girls" to wrestling promotions and promoters.

So if you booked one of Moolah's undercard girls, not only did you have a women's wrestler for your show, but you also had somebody to "tend" to the boys rather than them... 8/?

...hooking up with random ring rats.

Moolah was an awful wrestler, an awful agent, & an awful person.

She was also the egomaniacal bitch to end all egomaniacal bitches.

Even though she was well past her prime, wrestling occasionally, she didn't want anybody to surpass her. 9/?

Anybody that wrestled better than her? Gone.

Anybody that got popular without her sayso? Gone.

Her spot on that Hulk Hogan cartoon was stolen from one of her students.

The original screwjob? Her against Wendi Richter, another one of her students. 10/?

Hell, she killed off the entire WWF Women's Tag Division.

For decades Moolah style women's wrestlers were the norm in the US.

That's why the bar is so low for women's wrestlers. 11/?

It's taken the better part of the millenium thus far for women's wrestling to be proper wrestling and something more than a masturbatory fantasy for male fans.

This is why until recently there was a strict male/female gendered division divide. 12/?

Because women wrestlers got basically little to no actual professional wrestling training and would be completely and utterly destroyed by any male competitor.

And women's wrestling didn't need weight divisions, because the big, strong, athletic girls weren't wanted. 13/?

Wrestling promoters didn't put on women's wrestling matches for the wrestler, but entirely for the looks of the performers, and maybe having some "perks" for the boys.

Actual physically dangerous women's wrestlers were not actively hired and were utter rarities. 14/?

Because they would tear apart the smol, cute, untrained girls that were just there to be eyecandy.

Mostly over the last 10 years, the situation has gotten better for women's wrestlers in the US and most indies no longer actively segregate male and female wrestlers. 15/?

It's becoming more weight division based, though usually a World Heavyweight Championship is used as an open weight division belt, rather than one with a weight minimum.

@HHangover420 features three open weight, open gendered titles. 16/?

If you feel uncomfortable at the prospect of having to fight seven foot tall, four hundred pounds dragonesses and 6'5" my-god-she's-heavy androids, maybe @HHangover420 isn't the right wrestling promotion for you? 17/?

The material I got for @HHangover420 specifically states that they accept all kind of people. FP Reagan said he'd accept aliens, witches, and *shudder* businessmen. Any race, gender, orientation, age, size, or religion.

The boss man wants action, entertainment, & violence. 18/?

I'm pretty sure that he does not want his wrestlers posting racist statements on Twitter and threatening lawsuits.

Legal advice, Roxy, delete the tweets about me being an animal. Because ARE actual evidence of a hostile work environment & will be used against you should... 19/?

I, or another member of the @HHangover420 decide to sue.

Because competing in an open gender, open weight division title match is your job description.

But comments about being coworkers being nothing more than animals are actively racist & can result in your termination. 20/?

Harmless banter and jabs at me are fine, Roxy. I find them amusing.

I don't find active racism to be either harmless or amusing.

Refusing to wrestle me is dereliction of duty and would be considered breaking your contact with @HHangover420 and can be grounds for dismissal. 21/?

If you want to keep your job, Roxy, I suggest you stop with the racism, return to making weight jokes, don't mention any lawsuits, or talk of hostile work environments to HR about typical wrestler banter. 22/?

Because I've dealt with this shit before, Roxy. I've dealt with so, so much of this shit.

And the last thing that was actively, hostilely racist towards me?

It was a wrestling federation. It's not around anymore.

Read into that what you will. 23/?

So play nice, Roxy. Play by the rules. Stick to the nice, normal wrestling federation banter/insults.

Because you don't want the pain that comes with me being mean.

Back to your regularly scheduled series of jokes about Roxy's butt, camgirling, & lack of mental capacity. 24/24

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