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To use a relevant quote: Oh my brother, TESTIFY!

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Cookie McCool said on February 4th, 2014 at 2:41 pm

It looks like they’re trying to apply the same sort of generally half-assed but well-meaning irony that works in roller derbies to wrestling.

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It looks like they’re trying to apply the same sort of generally half-assed but well-meaning irony that works in roller derbies to wrestling.

The problem is that roller derby is an actual skill, a sport with actual danger to it, and you can’t just show up and fuck around because the other derby girls will beat your ass. This is much more in line with things like Pillow Fight League.

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(This is James the Tech Guy.)

“MGK likes wrestling, MGK lives in Toronto, this is wrestling in Toronto, QED.”

Pretty much, yeah. “Ha! Silly backyard shenanigans!” Having said that, though: I get where you’re coming from. Carry on!

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Tim O'Neil said on February 4th, 2014 at 8:22 pm

I like the indie wrestling where kids in KISS makeup are jumping off ladders onto mats covered in broken glass and on fire. Hipsters could never manage that level of COMMITMENT.

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Cookie McCool said on February 4th, 2014 at 8:26 pm

Yeah, I live in a pretty bad market for roller derby, unfortunately.

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Admiral Snackbar said on February 4th, 2014 at 9:34 pm

You know, we criticize the WWE a lot, and rightly so, for their inclination to turn models into wrestlers, but at least they TRAIN the Divas. These girls have a lot of nerve calling themselves wrestlers. They namecheck GLOW on that Tumblr, but I have my doubts they’re ever gonna produce an Ivory.

This is a great example of why everyone hates hipsters. They approach everything so carelessly. And then they expect everyone to support their non-efforts.

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The Crazed Spruce said on February 5th, 2014 at 8:40 am

I caught the GLOW documentary on Netflix this past weekend, and I gotta say, this company makes GLOW look like friggin’ Ring of Honor.

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The very little they show of their previous event is kind of damning- both in the sense that we don’t see much of it and what we see of it is dire.

To build on what Snackbar says, I think it’s a question of the minimum level of training and competence you have to have to be a wrestler- to be in the WWE as a Diva you have to at least be able to take a bump.

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