Hello and welcome to another edition of ...And That’s What I Think! I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday season and will have a festive New Year in the upcoming week. I want to talk about a very overpopulated topic in today’s media: sex. Yes, sex is everywhere you look these day’s and with good reason. Sex is one of the very few essentials to the human race. We’re likely the only species (besides dolphins) that take sex for pleasure and not for population. WWE seems to be taking sexual preferences to a new, more perverse high than ever before. Sure eye candy isn’t a bad thing here and there, but the WWE is taking eye candy and filling up the whole jar. And of coarse if you take in too much candy you’re bound to get sick.
Like many sports these days it’s commercials are aimed at men. I’ll give you one hundred dollars on the spot if you sit through an entire NFL game and don’t see a Viagra or Cialis commercial. But unlike the WWE, other sporting programs don’t put sensual acts into the game. Sure every once in awhile when football games pan out to a commercial break you’ll see a cheerleading waving her palm-palms to the crowd, but that’s nothing compared to the WWE. I’ve seen that on their programs they shove half the show with T & A. The RAW Diva Search is an enormous example of what I’m talking about. They could have held the contest to 15 minutes on a 2 hour show, but they had to push the limits and have them on every other segment. You couldn’t go a minute on RAW without seeing one of those little girls doing degrading segments like eating a pie or making ice cream (?).
Now if that were not enough it seems that the WWE is hiring mass women with no past wrestling experience. First Christy Hemme, then the backstage announcer (I’m not even going to search for her name), and now I’ve overheard they are hiring a blonde girl with little wrestling background. Add that along with the ever growing fact that the WWE roster is overfilled with no-talent female wrestlers at the moment and you have way too much T & A to go around in a 2 hour program. If I wanted to see stupid storylines between two women (I.E. Trish vs. Lita) I would turn to a Skinimax movie because at least would know that story would end with both women screwing each other.
I also hate the fact that the WWE seems to always push the boundaries, but they never break the door down. We get the useless bra/pantie matches and lingerie tango’s, but it’s not like that is anything near shocking to display. You can see that much on the E! channel at any point in time. The WWE has always’s had a keen eye in putting provocative entertainment on their program, but their view on sex is a bit too pre-mature. Pillow fights are something that elementary school kids would find sexually entertaining. Are you telling me that a prime time show on Spike TV can’t do more than that?
My point is that WWE has a horrible view on women in wrestling and it only seems to be getting worse. I would nearly sell my soul to see Torrie Wilson be traded in for another Victoria or Trish Stratus. Instead we’re seeing the Torrie Wilson-like characters doubling in this business, while the sexy and talented Diva’s are dropping like flies. Hopefully Vince can get it in his egotistical mind that it’s okay to have tons of T & A if you’re producing a soft-core porn video, and not a wrestling company.
Thanks again for reading this edition of ...ATWIT! I guess by now most have understood that I will only be doing a column every 2-3 weeks or so and I hope that doesn’t disturb any of you. Anyway’s thanks for reading and...And That’s What I Think!
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