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Tom Van Dam's avatar

You touch on several issues in more detail than I have seen from others, and I can appreciate that, but Hunter needs you to change your name, because he's already got two Stephanies, and that can cause trouble at home. 😉

As I get ready to launch "The Stroke," I have found myself reaching out to the people that also write about professional wrestling. It's my first time reading your work, and I oftentimes find that the female voice is under represented in the industry. Your words shout this out, intentionally or not, and they are effective because there's always been a way women have been presented in that industry, despite the fact that there's been a surprise surge in their importance.

I'm going to find you on X, and we'll hopefully chop it up some about this, because I feel like you have a lot of important things to say, and I'm going to root like hell for you to be noticed.

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Sam Brown's avatar

I enjoyed this Stephanie and found myself nodding throughout.

I absolutely agree with your last points about AEW and the media, they are coming up short against some heavy hitting PR strategies and the least they could do is treat the media that are there to cover them well. It's not a matter of 'rolling out the red carpet' but respecting their time and the expense they went through to be there. AEW has a lot going for it but it has too many self inflicted issues that they should have addressed by this stage of their life as a company.

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