5 WWE Women’s Wrestling Takeaways: New Era Fizzles Fast

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WWE Still Thinks Women Are Fragile In 2019

The week in women’s wrestling wasn’t a total disaster, but by no means did it impress me. The one moment that really stuck in my craw this week, though, was the segment between Rusev, Shinsuke Nakamura and Lana.

This scene was set up in a way that initially had me on the edge of my seat.

Nakamura surprised Rusev with an attack, but unlike when Carmella stood by helplessly last week when R-Truth was beaten down by Daniel Bryan, Lana actually took matters into her own hands. She hopped on Nakamura’s back and took part in the brawl because she’s, you know, a person with emotions and her husband was being assaulted.

Maybe the fact that this started as a great way to work around WWE’s invisible gender barriers is what made it sting so much more when the rug was eventually swept out from under me.

You see, Lana, who has regularly competed in the women’s division for a long while now and is obviously a trained professional wrestler, would tumble from Shinsuke’s back after he was struck by Rusev, and that slight tumble was apparently enough to incapacitate and maybe even seriously injure her.

Lana’s taken the equivalent to that fall a hundred times in a hundred other matches, but because this fall happened while she was beating down a man instead of a woman she suddenly became incredibly fragile.

Come on, WWE. It’s now 2019 and several years into your promise of gender equality. This pathetic representation of women is not acceptable, and I’m just done with it.