Yes!!! Darkside of the ring season 3 spoiler.

The amount of people defending sexual assault is disgusting. Just because it was 20 years ago doesn't mean it's not bad.

And, so far, the only one to be "cancelled" didn't commit a crime, he just spoke about the incident and gave his opinion on it (whether rightly or wrongly) based on what he heard. 

So we should just forget it happened then? Times change, standards change.

It wasn't fine 20 years ago, it's not fine now. There are people in this thread trying to discredit the victim. That's disgusting. There are many other people in the wrestling business that have said Flair used to do this crap all the time. Why is this one time so hard to believe?

It doesn't matter if people 20 years ago thought it was fine (it wasn't). Wrestlers get away with a crap ton of stuff because in the general public, who actually gives a crap about pro wrestling? If you don't want to get cancelled for sexual assault, don't sexually assault someone. It's not that hard.

what do you expect from a fully grown, super obsessed weirdo that has an entire wall dedicated to a female wrestler, who isn’t even aware of his existence? do you really think he has the correct mindset to be able to grasp the severity of the situation at hand, let alone know how to treat or show compassion to a woman? lord only knows what that altar was built for...

I find myself siding with Dreamer now

So a couple things...

My girlfriend watches Dark Side of the Ring with me, and she has been actually putting a lot of thought into the Flair plane ride story.

She said, "if Heidi Doyle took money to keep quiet all those years ago, isn't she going against what she was paid to do now buy talking about it?? Doesn't that go against the legal documents that she signed once accepting the money 20 years ago??"

Another thing she said, "where were the other woman at when Flair came onto Heidi?? Didn't she say there were other flight attendants up on the plane with her?? If so, why didn't they stop it from happening??"

I just find it strange that the only time I ever hear of Flair forcing her to touch his penis is now in the year 2021, when this story is pretty much 20 years old. The being naked on the plane with the robe, we knew of. Showing everyone on the plane his junk, we knew of. But the grabbing of the penis in a forceful way?? That legit was news to me!

There are people that are defending it in this thread. Go read some of the responses. Hell, one guy said that if you didn't know Flair liked to walk around with his dick out then you weren't a real wrestling fan.

Discussing past transgressions of idols and role models that were previously held up on pedestals isn't blind "hate", that IS acknowledging them as imperfect human beings. And while sexual assaults aren't specifically things that were explicitly acceptable in the recent past, the prevailing view now is that these allegations deserve to be handled with a bit more seriousness and the stigma should no longer be on the victims. No longer must the victim deserve the blame for "asking for it", or "she put herself in that situation", or "she should've done more to prevent it", or "buyer's remorse". (This isn't the norm of course, not by a longshot, but steps are slowly, painfully being taken.) And you see on here and everywhere else those lamenting for "the good ol' days" where people weren't "snowflakes", where you can openly use discriminatory and vulgar language or explicit and sexually-charged comments about a woman's looks without fear of repercussion because it's done for the sake of "comedic entertainment", as Ric's behavior would be classified as.

And I do see Flair himself as a victim of sorts. Not of "CaNCeL CuLTuRe", but of whatever issues he has coped with by wearing this flamboyant persona for the majority of his life. Many times he has described not finding contentment with a quiet life and resorting back to the partying and extravagant spending. And this behavior had largely been met positively by co-workers and fans who admired him for this "dedication". For decades, most around him and who looked up to him had welcomed and egged on this self-destructive and attention-seeking behavior because they wanted to witness "the legend" and it was just "Naitch being Naitch". Not to mention this all was occurring in an industry that is notoriously strenuous on body and mind, operating in a Wild West atmosphere of celebrity and privilege.

Whole lot of people in this thread who know nothing about how sexual assault cases work nor the trauma on its victims. There are many, many reasons why people don't speak up/wait to speak up as well as many reasons as to why they settle out of court. I've seen awful, awful things happen to SA survivors for even ATTEMPTING to speak up, and the fact that so many are quick to belittle and defame her only furthers the point.

People are kidnapped and/or killed for political protest in this country and beyond. Losing a few months of work and then getting paid to do interviews/podcasts afterwards is not being cAnCeLED and a majority of the time the SA survivors lose far more work and reputation than anyone they'd ever accuse.