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Originally Posted by Suicane75
It's not even the on screen "wrestling angles", that there is bullying involved in that is inherent, it's always been and always will be part of the act. It's the stuff like saddling Mickie James with a fat gimmick because she gained 10 pounds and then firing her. Like Vince mocking Randy Orton for not being big enough when he returned from shoulder surgery. Like the hundreds of backstage incidents of hazing and the company mantra to fuck with and jerk people around incessantly. If you have an ounce of knowledge of how the company works, from Vince on down, the anti-bullying campaign is just preposterous absurdity.
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Mickie James was a face and laycool were heels. Vince's character is an asshole, has been for years. I'd bet backstage wrestler-on-wrestler hazing is at an all time low, just based on the attitudes of the younger guys compared to how things were in the 70s and 80s. I don't know about any "company mantra to fuck with and jerk people around incessantly", but I wouldn't count a guy getting depushed as "bullying" if that's what you mean. And I don't buy most the stuff people come up with like, "Eugene was giving a retarded gimmick to punish him for something". Most of those things are inferences and educated guesses used to retaliate against booking they don't like. There's some examples reported by more reputable sources, but I wouldn't say that they're all that much different than any wrestling company ever. Except probably a little less bullying, and probably somewhat less drug use (just anecdotally based on what the older guys say about the younger guys)
But really, who cares what charitable organizations the WWE wants to get involved with where both the WWE and the charity are willing participants and they make their own arrangements and concessions based on their own discussions? Why do people get so upset about this stuff? If they book Cena to bully a woman but an organization wants Sheamus to come talk to kids about bullying, and maybe reconcile their product and its fictional content with a real-life message, what's the problem?