“It is not easy being a woman.”
“It doesn’t matter who you are, what you achieve, which path you walk down, there will always be those who simply see you as… A woman. A walking pair of ovaries, a future housewife, a second class citizen. A damsel in distress or a damsel TO distress. This Vendetta, there is “The Battle Of The Women Warriors”, where the conceit is… Hey, two women, lets set them against one another.”
“This isn’t the first time either. You remember, right Narcissa? Me, you, Candy Kane and Gemini. You were the OSW World Champion, and the best management could think up for you was ‘lol woman’. That night, I beat you. Instead of ‘someone who has defeated champions’, each week I watch the show back to hear Matt Ruby go ‘I WISH SHE WOULD WRAP HER LEGS AROUND ME OMGROTFLOL’. That last bit is not easy to say out loud.”
“So here we are again, pair of tits versus pair of tits for male titillation, the way society likes it. Like a chat show where a man cheats on his wife, and then the wife and his lover come out and yell at each other for 20 minutes whilst the husband just sits and laughs the whole time, nobody saying a word about him, the choice he made or the trust he violates. When something bad happens, it is all about the women. When something great happens, it is all about the men.”
“Joe McBlowhard’s wife wins gold in the decathlon! Cletus Diddler’s daughter gets rave reviews! Crazy Carol found guilty of GBH. Stephanie Murray’s business folds. I imagine by now you know that feeling, huh? Rather than being seen as Narcissa Balenciaga, in the public perception you are just ‘Zeus’s bitch’. Though in that case, I guess it is a bit of a blessing, right? I mean, you don’t have a long list of virtues to be attributed to you, do you?”
“You’re a fashionista who has seen trends like retro, glamour, geek chic and the plunging neckline and thought ‘you know what the world needs next? Bondage clown’. You lost your title, you hid like a little bitch, then you pop back for a rematch when Tombstone has done your dirty work… And ended up face down after an ambush you sprung, all at the hands of a cripple. I bet being ‘just a woman’ is a blessing right now, huh?”
“It’s not a blessing for me. It is a war I am fighting every day, and I have no intention of giving up. I am making a name for myself as a fighter, not as someone’s slampiece, not as someone who gives up and sure as fuck not as some basement-dwelling incel’s wank material. You being a woman is not enough for me to want to fight you. You being a disgusting piece of gutter trash most certainly is, and I will take immense pleasure in reducing you to a catwalk that I strut my stuff on, middle fingers to the photographer.”
“Enjoy life in the background.”