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Lana Is Apparently Broken

Another example of WWE’s failures from last week’s SmackDown was the borderline sexist treatment of Lana during her scene with Rusev and Shinsuke Nakamura. Lana jumped onto Nakamura’s back to protect her husband, but ultimately fell backward and was completely incapacitated.

Instead of backtracking on this unimaginably outdated stunt, this week WWE actually rubbed salt in the wounds. Rusev came to the ring to tell us that Lana, a professionally trained wrestler who fell all of three feet onto her back, is still laid up with an injury an entire week later.

Shinsuke Nakamura had the production crew play the events of last week over and over in slow motion with the intention of proving his innocence, but what really happened was that we were repeatedly reminded that the bump Lana took was nothing more than she would take many times during a single wrestling match.

Again, because Lana fell off a man’s back instead of the back of a woman, she has now been injured for an entire week. Lana. A professional wrestler. Because she’s a woman, and Shinsuke Nakamura’s a man.

I literally just can’t even fathom the sexism right now.

This is the kind of stuff WWE has pulled for decades, yes, but it is now 2019 and we are well into a movement to equalize the status of men and women, so how is this at all able to fly? Am I the only person outraged by this? Am I being completely unreasonable?

Women’s evolution, my eye.