TNA Wrestling Releases New Pride Month & Mental Health Awareness Shirts
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Showing Support: TNA Wrestling Releases New Pride Month & Mental Health Awareness Shirts
TNA Wrestling continues its long-running tradition of supporting charitable organizations, worthwhile causes and local initiatives.
TNA Wrestling is celebrating June’s Pride Month with a charity t-shirt, available in black and purple, featuring the company logo emblazed in the rainbow colors.
The shirts are available at tnamerch.com and a portion of all Pride shirt sales will be donated to the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance (NAGAAA), an international sports organization dedicated to providing opportunity and access for the LGBTQ+ community to participate in organized softball competition in safe environments.
TNA Wrestling started its partnership with NAGAAA in 2022. Gisele Shaw was the Special Guest Speaker at the Opening Ceremony of the 2022 Gay Softball World Series and has been the grand marshal in recent years for the Pride Parades in Toronto and Windsor, Ontario. Gisele will be speaking at Amherstburg Public School in Amherstburg, Ontario, on Monday, June 10, as part of its Pride Month celebration.
Another new shirt available at tnamerch.com supports You Are More, a Chicago-based local initiative founded in 2022 by mental health advocates Luis Mendez, Melissa Resendez and Shannon Mulcahy to promote mental health awareness and advocate for suicide prevention. You Are More (@youaremore988) has collaborated with global ambassadors, TV personalities and wrestling superstars.
TNA’s mental health awareness campaign aligns with TNA’s support for “Suicide Prevention Month” in September.
Proceeds from TNA’s You Are More t-shirt sales will be donated to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.
“TNA Wrestling and You Are More are tag-teaming to ‘Suplex The Stigma’ for mental health awareness,” said You Are More’s Luis Mendez. “Your financial contribution helps to create a world where all people affected by mental illness can experience hope, recovery, wellness and freedom from stigma.”
More pandering nonsense. This would be a big move in the right direction if the pure intention wasn’t to sell tshirts.
I’ll watch TNA, now!
Irrelevant company pandering to the irrelevant woke mob.
Irrelevant fascist and sexist pandering to the irrelevant transphobic right wing mob.
Agreed. This is merely pandering to the likes of Blackrock, just as some companies are now starting to abandon these silly, astroturfed, divisive psyops. But please be mindful to treat those that are in these groups who do not agree with the propaganda as human beings.
Lots of potential cross-marketing with those shirts.
And if anyone was offended by that, let me refer you to the article above where they mention that one of the goals is to reduce the stigma around mental illness. Stating factually that someone has a legitimate mental illness should not be seen as a negative thing; the problem is we’ve used it as a pejorative for so long that we can’t see the distinction. People with gender dysphoria, much like people with body dysmorphia, eating disorders, clinical depression, etc., are in need of support and care as opposed to derision and harassment. However, that does not mean indulging the inaccurate perceptions of themselves brought on by their illnesses, but rather supportively and caringly helping them see themselves as they truly are.
@Really?
Thing is, people with serious mental illnesses (we all have some minor ones) will never be treated the same. Let me ask you a question: would you get on an airplane if you knew that both pilots and the entire flight crew are mentally ill?
The problem isn’t the stigma, that’s already the “broken leg” stage. We should do something to keep the leg whole, address the problem at its source. And one of the solutions is to control human reproduction. Not everyone should have kids, not every couple is compatible.
But yeah, that’s not happening, so break out the band aids…
It depends on the mental illness. Someone who was born male but thinks he’s a woman? That probably doesn’t affect that person’s ability to fly a plane. Someone who thinks there are goblins hiding in the walls who will steal his soul if he isn’t constantly vigilant? Could be more of a problem. Either way, both examples are people in need of support and care to be guided back to reality. That doesn’t mean treating them the same as everyone else, but it also doesn’t mean making them pariahs.
It also depends on the situation. Someone born male but thinking he’s a woman could fly a plane with no problems. But I wouldn’t let him on the girls’ swim team or in the women’s bathroom, because a) that isn’t fair to the girls/women whose self-perceptions match their biology and are just as deserving of safe, gender-appropriate spaces as those who don’t, and b) that’s indulging the inaccurate perception, and the goal should be helping people overcome/manage the illness, not playing into it.
And I might be misunderstanding you here, so please correct me if I’m wrong, but if you’re talking about using eugenics to screen out the genetically inferior or undesirable, that’s already been tried. It didn’t go over too well.
@Really?
First, I can’t really speak for or about people with gender confusion or whatever the hell the politically correct term is these days. I may agree with you, but it’s easy to take a position like this when you’re like me, comfortable with my own junk and a fan of the opposite kind of junk. But that doesn’t mean I see them as lesser people. It also doesn’t mean I know how to help them.
I definitely wouldn’t use the word “eugenics”. What’s been done there was always done by people with their personal agendas, they weren’t trying to reduce mental illnesses or increase comfort, it was always more about the physical side of things. I’m talking about informed and conscious decisions, common sense based on science.
So like I said, it’s not happening. People are obsessed with politicians, celebrities, religious leaders, toys, bodies, tattoos, fake nails, fake tits, fake… This list could go on forever. They really don’t have time to think about not hurting their future kids.
Who cares, it’s a money grab but their is potential to maybe help someone
@Luke: OK, I feel better about that; we’re probably closer to agreement than I thought. I understand where you’re coming from regarding people with gender dysphoria/transgenderism/whatever. I’m also in the “comfortable with my own junk” camp and I’m certainly not a mental health professional, but you don’t need to have a mental illness yourself to help someone with a mental illness. The high-level stuff is, of course, best left to professionals, but anyone can support and care for someone in a way that doesn’t validate what their illness is telling them but also doesn’t invalidate them as a person.
I’m thankful that eugenics is off the table, but I still think what you’re talking about with reproduction is a slippery slope – what about people who are genetically more likely to have a child with Down’s, for example, since that has both physical and mental effects? Advising them of that possibility is certainly a valid thing, though I don’t think they should be in any way pressured not to have children based on a chance. I’m with you, though, in that more information is always a good thing. I suspect we also agree that taking genetics out of it entirely, some people are just not ready to have children (mentally, emotionally, financially, etc.) and that should also be considered more.
Of course, that also depends on how much of this truly is genetic. In terms of gender dysphoria and the like, it’s definitely possible that there’s also a “social contagion” aspect to it. While some people are truly suffering, some could be simply jumping on a trend, or however else you want to refer to it. Sure, you could say that more people are self-reporting now because it’s a more “tolerant” environment than it used to be and there’s less need to hide. But if that’s the main factor, there would be a vast increase across generations – a slew of Gen Xers and Boomers coming out, for example – and this still seems to be mostly Gen Z-driven with the only other significant uptick coming from Millennials.
As for the last part, I’m 100% with you. Whether it’s self-centeredness, lack of long-term thinking, worship of things that don’t last (celebrity, beauty, status, materialism, etc.), or any of a number of other factors, there definitely isn’t enough thought given to things beyond the self and/or the moment.
@Really?
I can’t agree with you about leaving stuff to professionals. Plenty of them are anything but.
I don’t think people like those should have kids. It’s the kids who suffer in such cases. But again, personal opinion, not gospel.
But that’s not the main problem. Most people aren’t born with mental illnesses, they’re driven to them by their parents, families, the society in general. See, most people are stupid (hell, how many people do you see comment here who should never have children? Even adopted?) and incapable of thinking for themselves. Plenty of people want to have kids because it’s expected of them and they don’t have the brainpower to see that it’s an option. I’m in a country where you literally get paid to have kids, a check every month until your kid turns 18. How do you think that will end? Then you have the “if I get pregnant, he won’t leave me” morons. Sure, that usually works in the short run, but again, not for the kid (and not for happiness, but that’s a different matter). Point is, the stupid reproduce waaaaaaaay more. And the stupid rarely have kids that turn into anything more but them (although it definitely happens).
Remember Idiocracy? It used to be a comedy. Now it’s starting to look like a documentary…
I guess what I’m getting at here is that the most common and therefore the most dangerous mental illness of all is stupidity. And no one is even thinking of treating it, because stupid is the new normal.
TNA wishes New Pride Month & Mental Health Awareness Shirts all the best in their future endeavours.
There’s a lot to digest there. Native Americans have a term for someone that is for example, born a male but identifies as a female, and wishes to transition. They refer to the as “Two Spirits”, as in two spirits inhabiting one body. No one thought they were mentally ill. They accepted them as part of the community. And I agree with that stance.
I don’t understand the hate companies get for pride month. It’s an illogical irrational fear have of people of the LBGT community. I keep seeing people complain that it gets pushed in their face. I’m old enough to remember people flipping out over interracial marriage and their complaints of how that would be pushed in their face. As we speak, there is a movement to overturn Loving v. Virginia, which would give states the right to outlaw interracial marriage. And the same wrong-minded thinking behind the push to overturn Loving is the same wrong-minded thinking behind those that protest Pride month.
@Luke: I think we agree about a lot more than we disagree about. What we’re agreeing about is pretty sad, but like you said, it’s how it is right now.
@Disgruntled Jobber: Native Americans, of which there are many tribes with many cultures, beliefs and languages with no one monolithic body, have had many different terms for non-gender-conforming people over the years. The English term “Two Spirits,” however, was coined in 1990 at a conference for gay & lesbian Native American and First Nations members and is not universally used by those tribes. It’s hardly “ancient wisdom,” and some tribes’ historical terms for and attitudes toward members of the LGBTQ… community have more closely mirrored those of the settlers of their lands than the paragon of virtue you’re implying.
What I don’t understand is the instinctive reaction to brand any disapproval of a practice you approve of or disagreement with an opinion you hold as “hate” or “fear.” Don’t get me wrong, those things do exist. But I hope you’re not lumping me in with that, or else you haven’t read my previous (admittedly long) posts talking about how the people in question should be supported and cared for, not harassed and shunned. I also looked for more information about your “movement to overturn Loving v. Virginia” and all I found was a bunch of 2022 think pieces from left-leaning outlets trying to scare people into believing that once Roe was overturned Loving would surely be next, but no concrete steps being taken. If you know of any serious specific ones (bills being introduced, cases being brought, etc.) I’ll look at them, but I think it’s probably limited to the smallest, very rightest-leaning fringe of the right-leaning and will rightfully not get very far. I mean, earlier this year Utah passed a bill strengthening its protection of interracial/ethnic marriage. UTAH. Unofficial nickname the “think you’re redder than us? hold my non-alcoholic beer” state.