salz4life
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Post by salz4life on Jun 17, 2020 17:55:51 GMT -5
Pointing to the Dream topic. I've actually been wondering about that. I've heard nothing since it broke.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 17, 2020 18:03:52 GMT -5
Pointing to the Dream topic. No proof for me,no reason to jump to it.I will leave it to the professionals Very different circumstances.
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Post by autisticgeordie on Jun 17, 2020 18:08:26 GMT -5
As someone who was a huge fan of David Starr, this is f***ing appalling from him; what makes me almost as angry is the amount of people defending him and giving grief to the girl who came forward. I'm sick of this victim blaming mentality when people are made out to be the one in the wrong for coming forward.
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Jun 17, 2020 18:15:38 GMT -5
As someone who was a huge fan of David Starr, this is f***ing appalling from him; what makes me almost as angry is the amount of people defending him and giving grief to the girl who came forward. I'm sick of this victim blaming mentality when people are made out to be the one in the wrong for coming forward. I've got to say, while on here the responses have been very measured there are other online wrestling communities that have been less so. Between people who are targeting and trashing the accuser and people who are prepared to exploit something as serious and as horrible as emotional and sexual abuse to score political/wrestling fan points on the internet, the reaction has been ugly to say the least.
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Post by Dub H on Jun 17, 2020 18:16:12 GMT -5
Pointing to the Dream topic. No proof for me,no reason to jump to it.I will leave it to the professionals Very different circumstances. I feel like if he didnt start going into his weird ass defense it would have been. When i first saw about it today he just said he was a jerk and abusive but not a sexual predator which at that point it was similar. Now he gone on that whole thing and basically dug his own grave on this.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2020 18:22:43 GMT -5
Well this guy can certainly f*** off.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Jun 17, 2020 18:32:39 GMT -5
I have never heard the phrase “gray rape” before in my life. That term makes me incredibly glad that I always wait for the woman to make the first move, and is also making me question some of the sex I’ve had over the years. I’ve flat out been sexually assaulted (saying a dude was raped gives very specific visuals, and that’s not what happened) but I’ve definitely had a lot of sex that would fall under the definition of me being gray raped.
That being said, nothing about that long letter Starr wrote implies “grey rape” to me, that implies pretty standard date/acquaintance rape. Definitely get more of a “coerced/cajoled/“ vibe from what’s been said, and that’s definitely date rap. F*** that dude
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Jun 17, 2020 18:53:31 GMT -5
I've spent all evening arguing with people on Twitter about this because they took his apology at face value, ignored the parts where he deflects by accusing her of abuse and leaking his nudes, and somehow completely blanked the parts where he admits to rape.
If anyone needs me I'll be cutting up the shirt I just bought off him a few months back.
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Post by Dub H on Jun 17, 2020 18:56:14 GMT -5
I've spent all evening arguing with people on Twitter about this because they took his apology at face value, ignored the parts where he deflects by accusing her of abuse and leaking his nudes, and somehow completely blanked the parts where he admits to rape. If anyone needs me I'll be cutting up the shirt I just bought off him a few months back. Yeh as I said above, when I posted about waiting for evidence i just saw the initial posts about it. Everything else just got worse and worse after, he basically admited it while trying to make it sound "not so bad".Even if he did say he accepts never wrestling again and that he was in the wrong,doesn't mean you should forgive him for everything else
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4TheGlory
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Post by 4TheGlory on Jun 17, 2020 19:00:25 GMT -5
Perfect example as to why when you are a celebrity or anyone with any semblance of notoriety, to not do these public apologies/explanations because they just end up making it worse and practically admit to additional wrong doings that will certainly be brought up in court in the future. Consult your lawyer or a PR firm to make a public statement, because he is apparently so dumb/full of him self that he thought that statement would do anything to help his case, instead he comes across even more guilty of what he was accused of.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 17, 2020 19:21:01 GMT -5
His defense tweet is a "Promoted" Tweet. Yeesh.
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Post by Cyno on Jun 17, 2020 19:22:12 GMT -5
Since I'm not that up on the Twitter, what exactly is a "promoted" Tweet?
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 17, 2020 19:36:59 GMT -5
Since I'm not that up on the Twitter, what exactly is a "promoted" Tweet? Paid ad, basically. He paid to have it show up as an ad.
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Post by Rudy Gobert Fadeaway on Jun 17, 2020 19:37:49 GMT -5
The fact that he's got a whole part in there going "even though _____, it wasn't consent" for like 5 or 6 lines super obviously trying to garner sympathy is appalling
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Mozenrath
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Post by Mozenrath on Jun 17, 2020 19:38:59 GMT -5
Since I'm not that up on the Twitter, what exactly is a "promoted" Tweet? Basically, a promoted tweet is shown on peoples' timelines much like an ad, since someone pays Twitter to put their ad out there. So, this is an incredibly gauche move on his part.
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Venti
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Post by Venti on Jun 17, 2020 19:52:53 GMT -5
The fact that he's got a whole part in there going "even though _____, it wasn't consent" for like 5 or 6 lines super obviously trying to garner sympathy is appalling That's one of the parts that disgusts me the most. Not only does it feel like he's trying to garner sympathy, it feels like he's trying to slyly say "hey, did I really do anything wrong?" Or at least that's how it looks when I read that select bit. Very distasteful.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2020 19:56:35 GMT -5
I feel like if I were intentionally trying to write a shady asshole character I'd go, "Nah, having him go, 'It was rape but it wasn't rape,' and then spend money to advertise it to people is too on-the-nose evil and stupid."
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Post by Dub H on Jun 17, 2020 20:05:01 GMT -5
I feel like if I were intentionally trying to write a shady asshole character I'd go, "Nah, having him go, 'It was rape but it wasn't rape,' and then spend money to advertise it to people is too on-the-nose evil and stupid." Feels pretty much that he went into absolute panic for himself,he is one step away of a breakdown.
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Jun 17, 2020 20:05:34 GMT -5
Honestly, Starr spending money to promote his non-apology could have been way worse. He could have spent that money on a PR firm or legal representation, instead we now know that he's an unrepentant abuser.
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Post by Cyno on Jun 17, 2020 20:16:34 GMT -5
Since I'm not that up on the Twitter, what exactly is a "promoted" Tweet? Paid ad, basically. He paid to have it show up as an ad. What the f***.
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