Thursday, December 13, 2012

Don't Be a Hypocritical Whiner, Especially When Dealing with The Batiri

Absolute Intense Wrestling's End of the World event happens in about eight days. Their Women's Champion, Allysin Kay, demanded a challenge after running through all those trying to get a piece of her golden action failed. She didn't get a challenger for her title, but she did get a match against one of those tasked with bringing about the apocalypse, Kobold. For most people, this match has a ceiling of "awesome" and a floor of "amusing comedy fodder." Generally, it's positive, except to one dude who goes by the alias of "Gary Oxide," but for real as Gary Oxborrow. He flippantly replied to the announcement asking who in fact this one guy from what faction was taking and calling him a clown. Here's the Batiri's response, in screen grab format:


First, I don't endorse the use of virgin or penis shaming in real talk. That's the same kind of bullying shit that shouldn't fly in a real setting. However, let's be real here. The Batiri are always in character on social media, and their characters are that they're vile, reprehensible, hateful demons who don't have anything nice to say about anyone. They're heels. They get comeuppance (a lot of comeuppance, actually). Secondly, Oxborrow is here being super-flippant about the Batiri's involvement on the card. He insulted them, Kobold specifically, so it's only fair he gets it back, right? If that were the case, this wouldn't even be post-worthy, except for the fact that dude threw a hissy fit and swore that he would never be a paying customer of AIW again until the Batiri didn't work for them.

Well, that's laughable. Obviously, you have the right to give your money to whatever company or entity you want for whatever reason you want. It's a free market world for the most part. However, the silly thing is that he's getting in a tizzy because he couldn't take what he was dishing out. He just insulted a bunch of professional wrestlers, carnies who shit-talk for a living. Did he not expect to get it back?

That's not even taking into account some of the misogynist and hurtful things he has been saying about certain female wrestlers sleeping around to get their positions, whose names I won't repeat for lack of a desire to give this guy the dignification of the shade he throws. If he's going to throw around derogatory sexual accusations (or what he deems as derogatory... personally, sleeping with the boss to get ahead is not exactly ideal but it's also not exactly the worst thing people do to get ahead either), then maybe he should grow thicker skin and not try to denigrate a company for one of their independent contractors doing the same to him.

I didn't even want to put this hole on blast here as my primary objective. What I really want to say is that if you insult a wrestler, or anyone really, don't expect not to get it back. Otherwise, don't expect sympathy from anyone, lest the people who are paying those wrestlers to appear on their shows.