There was a joke in DIRTY WORKS about Chevy Chase's character being deep in debt with his bookie because he was such a compulsive gambler that he bet on Clubber Lang against Rocky Balboa before ROCKY 3 came out and this is extremely same energy
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Keep in mind also that CIS intergender matches/feuds/angles have been happening in basically every promotion for decades, the more fantastical CHIKARA for example notoriously has quite a bit of this WWE doesn't do it ANYMORE but Chyna literally won the IC title off Jeff Jarrett
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Take a look at Chyna's match history in 1999 and _literally every single match she had_ that year was with a male pro wrestler (and many, e.g., '99 Bulldog, were ENORMOUS dudes) and the only one mad about it now is the WWE themselvespic.twitter.com/JOiMDtkSH1
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Chyna just wasn't IN women's matches in the late 90s, then in the aughts the WWF started to get really sheepish about portraying "male-on-female violence" and shunted Chyna off to the women's division and more or less torpedoed her because the women's division was shit back then
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But of course Chyna was a very large and strong woman so they did book her to annihilate the women's division But nobody accused her of having "an unfair advantage" over the women she was wrestling, who were pretty much half her size and rightfully so, 'cause it's storytelling
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Keep in mind that the WWE despite being "family-friendly" now (meaning it's culturally conservative) HAS, repeatedly throughout its existence done storylines where cis men went for "easy pickings" by dressing up as a woman and winning the womens' championship off a cis woman
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One of those storylines was "Santina Marella", the drag persona of comedic wrestler and all-around trash man irl Santino Marella, who literally took a spot in a women's Wrestlemania Battle Royal at a time when PPV slots for women were precious and rare and WON the fucking thing
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That was in 2009 but WWE, showing zero shame for the angle, brought it back as a cameo earlier this year when Santina was a farce entrant in the women's Royal Rumble, a spot which could have gone to any of their extremely talented female performershttps://www.ibtimes.com/wwe-womens-division-reportedly-not-happy-inclusion-diva-royal-rumble-2910763 …
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To be clear, this year a fucking dipshit guy LITERALLY stole a pay-per-view payday off some talented woman in order to make a mockery of the contest But transphobes don't care about THAT; they care about anybody choosing to recognize the accomplishments of any trans woman ever
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Similarly, SENSE8 was extremely unfair in portraying a trans woman with psychic powers, given how disproportionately psychic empathy powers are given to men
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Really, the girls in Assassination Nation obviously only won because of Bex's unfair biological skill at wielding two pistols in slow motion which all Biological Males have
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