When you see a pattern in Sinclair's gender imbalance, stymieing women anchors and journalists (as well as progressives), you get a sense of their overall priorities. If mid-management staff doesn't feel free to address these issues at Sinclair proper, you can expect that wouldn't be proper protocols set up for women to thrive in ROH.I find talk about SBG to be... less than completely relevant. The rovert1's statements about Sinclair both here and in the other thread are evidence that if such a thing happened, Sinclair would be inclined to not punish the wrongdoers without public pressure. That should not be mistaken for evidence- or even a strong argument- that such a thing actually did happen.
I used to think this was true, and that there were exceptions that could be accepted. That was until MeToo this past fall when we saw how drastically flawed these male mentor/female student dynamics could be. In Hollywood, the art world, sports, media, academia--these really prestigious institutions being compromised by irresponsible actors or outright abusers. The contrast in power is so stark--too stark. People in power shouldn't engage in these relationships. "You love who you love," to me sounds like a lot of masculine BS to cover up their unethical tracks. (Triple H's relation to Stephanie is also much different than Delirious and Mandy. I don't think you were alluding to that, but I just want to be clear.)I agree that it is not good for trainers to be dating their trainees or for the head booker to be dating anyone in the company, but at the same time, (to quote, of all people, Triple H) "you cant help who you fall in love with." It would be ideal for Mandy to be working for someone else, but... the fact is that she really isn't a very good wrestler and I can't see any company that is able to pay a living wage wanting to take her. Sometimes people fall in love and everyone has to just accept it even tho0ugh it creates a bad situation in the work environment. Not every situation like this is either "powerful man taking advantage of vulnerable woman" or "gold-digging whore/ambitious career slut sleeping her way to money/power/success." Sometimes people just fall in love.
Mandy and Klein both definitely have their strengths. Concerns about their push could also be concerns about how other womens wrestlers carve their own space. Like how a Jenny Rose or Jessi Brookes read the landscape and how they try to move in a space with uncomfortable boundaries.Also, re the pushes of Kelly and Mandy, there is a third possibility that people seem to not be considering, which was a reason people used to give for the booker of a territory pushing himself/his friends: the assumption is that as long as they are dating someone in the office, they won't leave the company out of loyalty. It's still not a great situation in that it's not the ideal meritocracy, but it's not as malicious as the "I'm pushing my girlfriend because she's my girlfriend" aspect.
Wiki's got some answers! Cary Silkin is considered an active producer, Greg Gilleland is the GM (and has been rumored to being the next Koff), Jerry Lynn is a producer as is Joey Mercury, Jeff Jones is head of social, and there's Joe Koff. Delirious and BJ Whitmer are uncredited in ROH personnel page, but they have both been confirmed to be in producer roles. Delirious also does creative, and I think has a hand in talent relations as well as the Dojo. The Dojo has several trainers, all men. There are legacy male hires that also influence the promotion like Todd Sinclair and Paul Turner. The regular announce team has always been men. Their longest-tenured women are probably Dojo graduates (Mandy, Jenny, or Klein). It's a boys club, which are notorious for ultimately valuing men over women.As for the comment about ROH not having any female executives... that's certainly true, but how many executives does ROH actually have? Is it not just Koff and Delirious? I think that's an unfair accusation to level with such a small sample size.
