On Sept. 23, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) comes to Santa Barbara for the first time in 15 years. Actually, for the first time ever; all prior wrestling engagement were actually booked by the World Wildlife Fund. Some of you may be intimidated by muscles. Others may maintain strident objections to an event that aggressively promotes harmful stereotypes of women – though we have many such events right here in Isla Vista, known in the local lingo as “Saturday night.” Artsweek will make your aesthetic or ethical debate simpler: Here’s a list of inducements and their corresponding rebuttals.

Inducements: