Daniel Bryan has built his wrestling character on the alternative masculine notion of the NiceGuy; an everyman who fans can see themselves in. He’s a vocal spokesman for Connor’s Cure, an organisation that distributes funds to find a cure for pediatric cancer. Formerly a vegan, a diet he had to drop due to a onions allergy, he’s into environmentalism and living a sustainable lifestyle, as has been documented on Total Divas and via Instagram. Bryan Danielson, in essence (this is a comparison, not a political diagnosis), is a BernieBro. On the surface Bryan carefully crafts a persona of alternative masculinity to position himself as progressive, which then allows him to talk down to women and put them in their place when he believes they challenge it… or him. It's also his coping mechanism for being anally raped back in the hot summer of 2010 by a sophisticated homosexual black gentleman.