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Well, I finally watched this and here are some of my thoughts:
First, Heidi. I feel for her. I really do. Nobody should have to deal with a drunk grabbing your shirt, threatening to lick you, and especially a 50+ naked drunk swinging his dick at you while you're trying to do your job. I can only imagine the trauma she still feels about it today from the flight. If it wasn't for the fact Ric Flair is this big legend, he would have got some punishment for it. As for Scott, he was more than likely out of it. It was a product of his demons. Still wrong, but I hope he feels bad about it now he's sobered up. I think he would even call himself on it if he knew he did it.
Two, at first, I was thinking "That's it?" for what Tommy Dreamer said when they first went over the Flair incident, but then I saw what people meant. Fucking hell what he said was ignorant as hell and pissed me off.
"It's a joke, it's a gag." Bullshit. The "joke" was taking a step way too far. You don't go hit someone's car with a baseball bat and get off any repercussions by saying "It is just a joke." I've had people in my life pick on me and use that BS excuse when they drive me to tears.
"Today, 1000 times inappropriate." Even then it was inappropriate, hun. Then he said his ponytail offended someone as a way to use that whole "Everyone's offended by something these days." line. Fuck you.
What happened on that plane very well could have been easily found as sexual harassment, or in Canadian tort law, an assault (Difference between that a criminal is while assault in crim is something physical, in tort it is an "intentional creating in the mind of another of a reasonable apprehension of immediate physical contact", Solomon et al. page 70) The physical contact? Being forced to touch a man's helicopter dick. I don't care if you never saw him do it before, that is not relevant to whether or not he did it at that time. Then he blamed her for suing. That's the type of shit that makes sexual assault victims, especially women, uncomfortable coming forward.
Ironically, I'm not calling him to get fired from Impact from this. But he needs to fucking learn that just because something was "acceptable at the time" does not always mean it is good. Hey, slavery was accepted at the time, right? Does it mean it was any good? FUCK NO!
Next, Jim Ross: I feel for you. You should not have to manage several grown men acting like drunk assholes. You could have done a better job handling it, and he admitted it himself, but jeez.
Finally, something to at least be a bit bright is that the wrestling industry, in the time since, has been improving. It still has a way to go with examples from the #SpeakingOut movement last year, and there are not as many crazy stories of everyone getting this drunk causing this much chaos and less drug use. I just hope we don't have to have another Plane Ride from Hell to improve.
Once again, fuck you, Tommy Dreamer.
First, Heidi. I feel for her. I really do. Nobody should have to deal with a drunk grabbing your shirt, threatening to lick you, and especially a 50+ naked drunk swinging his dick at you while you're trying to do your job. I can only imagine the trauma she still feels about it today from the flight. If it wasn't for the fact Ric Flair is this big legend, he would have got some punishment for it. As for Scott, he was more than likely out of it. It was a product of his demons. Still wrong, but I hope he feels bad about it now he's sobered up. I think he would even call himself on it if he knew he did it.
Two, at first, I was thinking "That's it?" for what Tommy Dreamer said when they first went over the Flair incident, but then I saw what people meant. Fucking hell what he said was ignorant as hell and pissed me off.
"It's a joke, it's a gag." Bullshit. The "joke" was taking a step way too far. You don't go hit someone's car with a baseball bat and get off any repercussions by saying "It is just a joke." I've had people in my life pick on me and use that BS excuse when they drive me to tears.
"Today, 1000 times inappropriate." Even then it was inappropriate, hun. Then he said his ponytail offended someone as a way to use that whole "Everyone's offended by something these days." line. Fuck you.
What happened on that plane very well could have been easily found as sexual harassment, or in Canadian tort law, an assault (Difference between that a criminal is while assault in crim is something physical, in tort it is an "intentional creating in the mind of another of a reasonable apprehension of immediate physical contact", Solomon et al. page 70) The physical contact? Being forced to touch a man's helicopter dick. I don't care if you never saw him do it before, that is not relevant to whether or not he did it at that time. Then he blamed her for suing. That's the type of shit that makes sexual assault victims, especially women, uncomfortable coming forward.
Ironically, I'm not calling him to get fired from Impact from this. But he needs to fucking learn that just because something was "acceptable at the time" does not always mean it is good. Hey, slavery was accepted at the time, right? Does it mean it was any good? FUCK NO!
Next, Jim Ross: I feel for you. You should not have to manage several grown men acting like drunk assholes. You could have done a better job handling it, and he admitted it himself, but jeez.
Finally, something to at least be a bit bright is that the wrestling industry, in the time since, has been improving. It still has a way to go with examples from the #SpeakingOut movement last year, and there are not as many crazy stories of everyone getting this drunk causing this much chaos and less drug use. I just hope we don't have to have another Plane Ride from Hell to improve.
Once again, fuck you, Tommy Dreamer.