10 Ways WWE Is Better Than AEW

2. Parity

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"The Women's Revolution" as a term was as much to do with Stephanie "philanthropy is the future of marketing" McMahon's mid-2010s branding obsession as anything else. Wrestling was rooted in misogyny for decades, but with one catch-all phrase WWE laughably claimed to have cracked it by 2018 or so as if it was a brand new issue they'd gotten in front of.

But all of it actually ended up working.

There's parity in WWE because those within the company realised years after they should have done that they were abandoning potentially more than 50% of their audience by failing to utilise women beyond John Laurinaitis' repulsive and shameless "athletic 10s" hiring policy.

There are lots of viable ways to to fix this in AEW, but the company is yet to show the patience or willingness to do so. It's worse if they don't see that, too, and evidence is piling up that this might be so.

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