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"Most of the situations I've described would be considered criminal acts in the real world," says Marcia Merrill, a Burlington accountant and past president of both the Vermont Federation of Business and Professional Women and Burlington Business and Professional Women. "A generation of children is learning to laugh at and enjoy violence as normal. It's no wonder that bullying in schools has become such a huge problem."
About 73 percent of WWE's audience is 18 or older, [Gary Davis] adds, and should be free to attend any event that abides by the laws of the community. "I don't think anyone who walked into Memorial Auditorium didn't have an idea what to expect," he suggests. "And, I think our storylines generally show women to be very independent, very tough and very resilient, which aren't necessarily negative images for women in our society. These women are not victims."See the full content of this document
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Pro Wrestling; Burlington Women Try a Smackdown
Each week, performers get hit with metal chairs, trash cans and sledgehammers; they degrade and humiliate one another with racial and ethnic slurs, act out scenarios involving ...
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