22: Wrestling's #MeToo Moment: Rhia O'Reilly

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Andrew Gold

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🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Wrestler Rhia O’Reilly is known for her signature move the Rhia-djustment. We chat about broken bones, how wrestling works and Jaffa Cakes, as well as one of the most under-reported social movements: the Speaking Out movement. It’s a bit of a subset of #MeToo, but wrestling was left behind by the media a little, which likes to pick and choose what might be relevant. I didn’t know very much about wrestling, so Rhia helped to fill me in. We also discuss whether or not wrestling is a sport - which has long been a surprisingly controversial debate! Rhiannon Stephanie Docherty was born in 1985 and is from Northern Ireland. She’s been wrestling since 2010 and she also trains other wrestlers, and is a pretty big name in the industry nowadays. Find her on Twitter at https://twitter.com/rdpixie, she’s got a big following and is very active – she’s also big on charity and works at the Big Issue, which is a great British newspaper that helps homeless people to earn an income. For the dark side of Rhia, check out her videos on YouTube. I have far few followers, so if you feel sorry for me, find me on Twitter - https://twitter.com/AndrewGold_ok - or Instagram -https://instagram.com/AndrewGold_ok - or Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ontheedgewithandrewgold - those accounts are where you'll find all the video teasers. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Very early on in my career I remember being in a locker room and someone made a comment saying like there's only one reason women should be in this locker room and it's to service me.
0:25.4	Today's episode will leave you on me. wrestler Ria O'Reilly known for her signature move, the readjustment. She was a bit of a coup to get on the show, but wrestling hasn't been all that busy in
0:29.8	COVID lockdown times and as I say this it's October 18th. It's cold, dark and depressing and we're all
0:37.8	about to go into lockdown again and I've got a very big mouth ulcer.
0:43.0	So it's been one of those weeks and we're all a bit down.
0:46.0	But luckily for me and for you listeners,
0:48.0	we got Superstar Ria to readjust our mindsets
0:52.0	and keep us upbeat. She's a really positive person with tons to say about the wrestling industry.
0:57.9	That said, we are going to chat about one of the most underreported social movements, which goes under the speaking out,
1:04.0	hashtag. It's a bit of a subset of the Me Too movement, but wrestling was left behind by the media a little,
1:09.8	which likes to pick and choose what might be relevant.
1:12.9	Loads of guys in wrestling were fired in acrimony this year,
1:16.8	it's 2020 in case you're listening from the future,
1:19.5	or the past, in which case sort out
1:21.8	those horrible male wrestlers before they do the horrible things
1:24.3	they've probably been doing for decades.
1:26.3	Sorry this was supposed to be a buoyant distraction from COVID rather than a reminder of the
1:31.3	failings of humanity but we do go into a reminder of the failings of humanity.
1:33.0	But we do go into a bit of detail on that,
1:35.0	and it looks like it's, you know,
1:37.0	wrestling starting to sort itself out,
1:39.0	which is upbeat, isn't it?
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