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Topic	All-Purpose Wrestling Topic Part 498 - In Your House
scarletspeed7 06/22/20 5:45:42 PM #226:	HashtagSEP posted... That's not a case of "not knowing better." That's a case of just knowing you can get away with it. It's like when you're a teenager and you speak differently around your friends than you would your mother. You don't swear around your mother because you know it's not a good thing to do, but you swear around your friends because nobody cares. Saying one "doesn't know any better" is taking away accountability a little bit when it shouldn't be. You can be inured by a culture of a business or industry, and it can warp your perceptions of acceptable behavior. It doesn't absolve Sammy of blame, but it contextualizes it. The jump from high school straight into the independent wrestling scene, I think, shows that there is an environment where the veterans aren't teaching younger people a proper way to behave, but likely endorsing it. Again, none of this says Sammy isn't free from guilt in what he said, but unless something further surfaces about him, I think this is sign that sweeping changes need to start at every level of the wrestling industry. When I worked in a warehouse the summer after high school graduation before I started college, I saw a culture of male workers that spent time breaking down and discussing the women who worked at our facility and how attractive they were. It never went to the extent that rape came up, but it was very uncomfortable. I found it really difficult to participate, but I had a friend from high school who sort-of just sucked it up and started joining those conversations. He ingratiated himself with those people, and he found cushier work duties on his docket. I was more of an outsider, and I was constantly stuck in the non-air conditioned areas. Because he participated and socialized, did he learn that bad behavior was acceptable? Language like Sammy used can be ingrained into you. Nothing about it that doesn't suck. Nothing about it that makes Sammy any better. But it's pretty important to not lose the thread that people were sexually assaulted on a large scale in this industry, and if you're going through your early adult years, and even some of your youth, in that environment? It's going to be harder for you to not be sucked into a little bit of that culture. --- "It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful <cite>scarletspeed7 posted [p:941088359] in All-Purpos... [t:78752678]...</cite> <quote>HashtagSEP posted... </cite> <quote>That's not a case of "not knowing better." That's a case of just knowing you can get away with it. It's like when you're a teenager and you speak differently around your friends than you would your mother. You don't swear around your mother because you know it's not a good thing to do, but you swear around your friends because nobody cares. Saying one "doesn't know any better" is taking away accountability a little bit when it shouldn't be.</quote>You can be inured by a culture of a business or industry, and it can warp your perceptions of acceptable behavior. It doesn't absolve Sammy of blame, but it contextualizes it. The jump from high school straight into the independent wrestling scene, I think, shows that there is an environment where the veterans aren't teaching younger people a proper way to behave, but likely endorsing it. Again, none of this says Sammy isn't free from guilt in what he said, but unless something further surfaces about him, I think this is sign that sweeping changes need to start at every level of the wrestling industry. When I worked in a warehouse the summer after high school graduation before I started college, I saw a culture of male workers that spent time breaking down and discussing the women who worked at our facility and how attractive they were. It never went to the extent that rape came up, but it was very uncomfortable. I found it really difficult to participate, but I had a friend from high school who sort-of just sucked it up and started joining those conversations. He ingratiated himself with those people, and he found cushier work duties on his docket. I was more of an outsider, and I was constantly stuck in the non-air conditioned areas. Because he participated and socialized, did he learn that bad behavior was acceptable? Language like Sammy used can be ingrained into you. Nothing about it that doesn't suck. Nothing about it that makes Sammy any better. But it's pretty important to not lose the thread that people were sexually assaulted on a large scale in this industry, and if you're going through your early adult years, and even some of your youth, in that environment? It's going to be harder for you to not be sucked into a little bit of that culture. --- "It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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