#Hana Kimura

[elitehanitje]

Cody Rhodes Supports Body Shaming

"This is a vanity business. This weird online contingent doesn't realize how important that (physique) is. We're wrestling with our shirts off, folks, it's ok to go the gym...and you hear fans be like "You can't body-shame wrestlers" - what are you talking about? We're standing there half naked and you're paying hundreds of dollars to see us. Body shame me all you want. Currently, I know it might seem toxic and stuff, but amongst the boys and girls, everyone [is saying] who does your diet? Who’s training? There’s a whole ‘nother health-conscious' now in WWE, and I love that. We’re trying to look our best."

This is normally the part where everyone might rant about how wrong Cody is on certain points, but the fact that he admits his answer “might seem toxic and stuff” pretty much does the work.

The world of professional wrestling today is quite different from the past. Gone are the days of wrestlers who were just overly muscular; now, more fit and diverse athletes are the norm.

Someone like Adam Cole, who has been receiving a lot of body shaming lately, might not agree with what Cody Rhodes had to say. Nevertheless, Rhodes has made his stance on body shaming clear and has no regrets about what he said.

Especially when AEW haters body-shame wrestlers such as Orange Cassidy, Adam Cole, Nyla Rose, Eddie Kingston, Deonna Purazzo, Samoa Joe, Marko Stunt, Jack Perry, Zack Sabre Jr, JD Drake, Beef, Willow Nightingale, Joshi Wrestlers, NJPW Wrestlers, CMLL/Luchador wrestlers, The Young Bucks, and many more, many fans are trying to figure out whether Rhodes wants fans to attack AEW/non-WWE wrestlers or just insult wrestlers in general.

Hana Kimura committed suicide following a series of troubling tweets addressing online bullying and body shaming directed at her from "fans", she was found dead in her apartment in Tokyo on May 23, 2020. She was only 22.

Deonna Purazzo was harassed and body-shamed by many "fans" and she had to make a statement about it. Cody Rhodes' green light about allowing body-shaming wrestlers is a dangerous path toward harassment and bullying. Even a champion such as Zack Sabre Jr was being called a skinny jobber by WWE fans for winning the G1 Climax, not even knowing what his face looked like because they'd never seen him wrestle.

Marko Stunt was body-shamed during his tenure as a wrestler especially when podcaster Jim Cornette fueled his hatred toward him by telling his fans to harass the wrestler. Luchasaurus was fired from WWE when he filed a complaint against many people who bullied and body-shamed trainees and wrestlers.

Wrestler Sheamus was body-shamed a lot during his tenure especially because of his weight gain. Fans also quickly pointed out that Cody Rhodes' father, the late Dusty Rhodes was well-known to have a large body type, which is ironic that Cody allows this behavior. His half-brother, Dustin Rhodes is also an AEW wrestler who doesn't react to Cody, but tweets words of encouragement to his fans.

Some critics say Cody Rhodes is saying these things because he is playing a character, so he's becoming toxic. But this is actually a genuine interview from him, not when he was playing a character. He wants to appeal to those WWE toxic fans who like to insult AEW, Japanese wrestlers, and Luchas wrestlers.

Critics immediately have something to say about his toxic beliefs:

[kelseywrestling]

Giulia with a tribute to Hana Kimura in her titantron with the cherry blossoms 🌸

[vanityangel]

HANA KIMURA FOREVER 🌸🌈🦄🍭☠️☣️🖤🍒👽

[dynamitekansai]

[joearlikelikeswrestling]

[blackbellaswan1]

RIP to the Dangerous Flower Hana Kimura, we lost you 3 years ago we will never never forget you, extremely talented and inspirational, think about you every day

[animefeminist]

The Villain Edit: Dissecting how Oshi no Ko evokes real-life tragedy in its depictions of harassment and reality TV culture

Content warning: suicide, self-harm, racism, online harassment

Spoilers for Oshi no Ko Season 1

With the speed at which internet culture evolves, it’s only natural that fictional media often has trouble capturing things like social media usage and online community in a way that feels authentic and believable. So when a series is able to go above and beyond by creating and effectively depicting an internet that even sometimes seems to truly mirror the real world, it’s a rare and fascinating thing that has the potential to deliver some truly powerful messages at their fullest impact. And a common nominee for the short list of titles that’ve managed to achieve this is one of the biggest smash hits to come out of 2023: Oshi no Ko (OnK).

The overarching plot of the series revolves around a “teenager” (who was previously a fully adult doctor who was reborn after his unexpected death) named Aqua seeking to find and kill his (post-rebirth) mother’s stalker/murderer—his mother, Ai, having been a widely beloved idol with more secrets than frills in her costumes. With the goal of finding people who could help him to uncover the many obscured details of Ai’s personal life, Aqua enters the entertainment industry. This is where the meat and potatoes of the series lies: as an exploration into the dark, two-faced nature of the world of pop idols and celebrities. Relevant to this article, this includes a brief stint where Aqua joins the cast of a reality dating show.

Read it at Anime Feminist!

[68bears]

[blueonwrestling]

I don't want to sit here and pretend I was a diehard massive supporter of her during her life, and knew much about her as I just had dogshit knowledge of joshis at the time, but I absolutely have to make a post about Hana Kimura.

Today would have been her 27th birthday and it still to this day is absolutely awful she passed away, just some of the saddest shit in all of wrestling, poor poor girl.

May she forever rest in peace.

[switchbladeclub]

[evileyekabuki]

GODDESS OF STARDOM CHAMPIONSHIPS

✝️🖤🪦 OEDO TAI 🪦🖤✝️

Championship Reigns: 6x

Most Reigns Individually: Yu Ishino (2)

[elitehanitje]

If your first instinct when watching/reading/seeing something about bullying, body shaming, and suicide is to laugh and boast, then there's nothing I can do or say will change your deranged mindset. The best I can do is to block and hope others won't have the same mindset. I got this type of reply on Twitter most of the time but on Tumblr? It looks like a Twitter rejection or something:

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When I wrote that post based on the news article, I mostly focused on the danger of bullying. Hana Kimura is a well-known wrestler who killed herself after she was bullied by her so-called fans and also body-shamed. I also wrote about other wrestlers, and not just from AEW but from other companies.

I thought that by doing so, people would know how a bit obtuse what a certain wrestler said about body shaming. It's one thing to say that he doesn't care that people shaming him, it's another thing that he said that he supports it and how it affects others.

If your first instinct is to laugh and say that AEW is losing to WWE and we made up stuff to "win", then maybe you are not a fan of wrestling or decency in general. You're the one who glazed over the topic and made it into something else. If you think that when suicide matter is not important enough compared to your favorite company and wrestler, then please, on everything holy, refrain yourself commenting on other people's blogs/posts. I don't care what you write on your own blog, because chances are I won't see it. After all, you're blocked.

So please, block me if you think that bullying is acceptable and suicide is okay - because I always feel that Tumblr at least has some leftover safe space for everyone who has a heart. Even in a wrestling world, be a decent fan and human.

[kelseywrestling]

Mercedes Moné pays tribute to Hana Kimura (NJPW Battle In The Valley)

[vanityangel]

[dynamitekansai]

[joearlikelikeswrestling]