Media still misses the point Re: Linda McMahon, adds a wacky cartoon

by David Bixenspan on Feb 17, 2010 10:42 PM EST in WWE

Over at the Hartford Courant, we have more of the same as Bob Englehart gave us this work of art along with an editorial about how WWE is softcore porn and that makes Linda McMahon unfit to be a senator. I don't get it. There's plenty of quality ammo to use against the McMahons/WWE. It became a lot more well-known after the Benoit murder-suicide, and whatever you don't know is easy to find thanks to this wonderful invention called Google. Why dwell on creative endeavors of Linda's crazy rich husband who loves dick and fart jokes? That's nothing. Between the demand for the dangerous quick release snap shackle that led to Owen Hart's death, all of the drug stuff, and even the nonsensical '80s arena tour routing where the talent was jetlagged into oblivion, there's a never-ending closet full of skeletons.

Sure, they shouldn't market certain things towards children, and they especially shouldn't encourage kids to scream that they want to blow Linda's son-in-law, but it's only getting a zillion times more press because too many people are more outraged by people having special places that their swimsuits cover (or that they go to the bathroom from, whichever you prefer to name them) than actual reprehensible behavior.

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I read that article yesterday and was so pissed off by it that I should have gone on my own blog rant about it. Women’s wrestling in America has always been about titillation, it’s just that in the past you couldn’t get away with such cleavage exposing clothing. If anything, women’s wrestling in the past was a lot darker and seedier with the women being encouraged to sleep with the territorial promoters to keep them sweet. Mildred Burke, fell so far after her divorce from the abusive, womanizing women’s wrestling promoter Billy Wolfe, she ended up peddling basement wrestling tapes that were genuinely soft-core porn. This misty eyed, romanticism that leads lapsed fans to believe the McMahons destroyed wrestling’s innocence is such crap.

Also, the big story of the LT match, the biggest match ever held in Connecticut, is that his opponent died less than 12 years later at the age of 45 from a drug induced heart attack.

by Keith Harris on Feb 18, 2010 8:15 AM EST reply actions