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RazorBack said:Not only did Carlito turn on Flair, but he turned on his girlfriend, Tori Wilson.
Carlito is so angry at the two of them, he will do anything to make them realize just how much better he is than them.
So what does he do? Get a match against Tori Wilson, act like he'll just let her walk away, and pull the Backstabber out of no where.
What does this show the viewing public? It shows them that it's reasonable to attack a woman, as long as you're really really pissy with her to begin with.
But what if a face were to hit a heel women's wrestler? What if John Cena were to hit the Miz' new valet, Maryse?
What would that show to the viewing public? That it's okay to hit women who are cheating at the same game/job you're competing in? That it's okay to hit a woman as long as she's mean to you?
All of that, plus the man on woman violence desensitizes children (the new target audience) and the viewing public against man/woman violence. The first time you see it you say "Oh ma gawd, Cena just punched Maryse straight in the jaw." The next time you say "That's mean." The third time you say "Huh." The fourth time, it's "Oh well." It's the same thing for violence in today's news and video games, only applied to wrestling and violence against women. Not quite as fast or progressed as I described, admittedly. But the same principle applies.
Let us move along from the violence against women side of the argument.
Whom does a woman facing a man in the ring help? Let's look at Chyna's reign for instance. She was the first woman to qualify for King of the Ring. She went over (an admittedly leaving) Jeff Jarrett for the WWE Intercontinental Championship. She went on to feud with Jericho over the title, becoming co-champions with him before finally losing it to him in a Triple Threat. I ask you, whom did that feud help? It's not like Chyna was ever going to win the WWE championship. And it's not like backstage said "Oh ma gawd, look at how Jericho jobbed to Chyna! He's going to be the first Undisputed WWE Champion, mark my words."
There you have it. Men should not be facing women in the ring. It helps no one's careers, it merely promotes the idea of violence against women as a valid outlet for anger, and it desensitizes the viewers towards domestic violence or generic violence against women.
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Some of the greatest writers ever, stole their material from their wives.
Which in the storyline, this caused even more emotional dispair between the two, Ric Flair and Carlito. Women can be a huge gateway to emotion. But thats not what bothers me about this match, I would like to say, I hate the way Torrie acted in this match. She acted like she was a poor defenseless little housewife, who could do nothing to big mean Carlito. What if she faught him? What if they went toe to toe. Eliminate the factor that all men are bullies to women once they get in the ring, and a woman could easily have a legitimate fight with a man in the squared circle.
Well, isn't that the point to all montor/mentee type relationships? Once it breaks off, the mentee finnally tries to prove his worth, often turning him evil.
.Incorrect, this to me shows that Carlito was slime during the time. Had the WWE only been smart and aloud them to wrestle, the story would be entirely diffrent. This would make Carlito gain shittons of heat, and allow Torrie to look much stronger in the long run
Seeing as how Cena is a 250 pound muscular beast, and Maryse is 120 pounds soaking wet, this act wouldn't/shouldn't happen.
To use this in our debate is absurd,
once again take away the bully factor that all men are better than women, and any man that gets defeated by a woman is extremely weak, then it becomes nothing.
What if Kong wrestled Cena, they're the same realitive size, Kong's bigger of couse, Kong shows MMA skills, and I could legitimately see her defeating John Cena, without Cena looking weak, if the WWE strives to eliminate the sexist fact that all men are better than women, of course.
This shows nothing to the public. It garnared heat for Carlito, and sympathy for Torrie, causing great emotional distress for Ric Flair to face his former trainee.
It also eliminates the fact that all men are better than women factor.
Granted the average female is no where near as physical, or rough as the average male.
The fact that some are, shouldn't be a problem in the real world.
I don't think this will cause the rates of any boys beating on girls at the playground. My mother is a Kindergarden teacher, and quite obviously works with Kindergardners, they show no emotions between eachother, outside of the whole "Gross boys have cooties" and vise versa.
It was getting stale.
In this sense, it helped Chyna become a believable Interconinental champion. Which was the point in the storyline anyways.
Not only did it do this, but it also elevated the logic behind Chyna being Triple H's bodyguard.
Women should be facing men in the ring.
They're just as good if not better than men in anything they do, they can preform in the ring just like any other man.
The WWE should be a gateway for all women around the world. All sports should/could be intergendered because again, women are just as good as men.
Its sexist to believe otherwise.
Are those in WCW and I just missed it? No?
That's the problem. You can pick matches from the independent circuit all you want to, but those aren't the type of matches that will be presented by the WWE.
The WWE will present the violence against women as lopsided in the direction of the man, and that is what is being judged here.
A few matches in a Mexican promotion does not the entire wrestling industry make.
She couldn't have fought him. That's the problem. WWE is an outlet for everyday life, with the wrestlers being shown as larger than life characters that are rooted in some sort of reality. What kind of reality has Tori, a 100 pound soaking wet woman, fighting and actually beating Carlito? She isn't Chyna.
I disagree. It showed that a heel can hit a woman if he's mad.
Carlito just did what heels have been doing throughout the time of the WWE, and that's hitting the woman that pisses them off.
And I fail to see how a match between Tori and Carlito in which Tori won would have been half realistic.
Not at all. This debate isn't "Should men face women realistically." It's "should men face women in the ring?" And I took it to mean as the WWE presents the battle.
Lopsided, in the favor of the male. Except for the anomaly that is Chyna.
That's the only reason men ever fight women in the WWE though. It always has a bully factor, it's always worked to where the woman buckles in 5 seconds. Unless it's Chyna, or it's a comedy match. Ala Santino and Beth.
1) In the WWE, Cena would murder Kong.
2) I fail to see how it is sexist to have men who are 250 pounds of muscle going over the likes of women who are what, half their size? Kong could be presented as a legit threat the crowd take it seriously, but kayfabe wise, who is going to believe that?
Who would believe Carlito and Tori wrestling and Tori legit beating him? Cena and Beth Phoenix? Orton and Gail Kim?
Even the strongest of the Divas and more than half of the Women's Division in TNA are only what, half the size of the men on the roster?
There is no way you can present the women as winning, especially in this day and age where women are routinely (sad, but true) beaten by men twice their size.
When I look at Cena vs. the entire women's roster..I can one man being stronger and faster than the entire women's roster.
And there is no problem being realistic. Cena is simply faster and stronger. Having a woman go over him would make no sense.
Police are routinely called in for domestic disputes in which the man is beating a woman. It's sad, it's horrible, but it's common knowledge. It's not sexist to understand that most women can not stand up to a man who gets angry and feels like punching her. That's why we have all of these handy dandy morals in society that tell me not to punch a girl. Because the girl, most likely, couldn't do anything in retaliation.
Have you ever seen a group of elementary boys after watching wrestling? When I was 10 years old all we did was say "Suck it!" or do the weird Diamond Dallas Page Diamondcutter thing with our hands.
Oh, and Steve Austin and The Rock. We would do the People's Eyebrow and act like we were giving people the Stunner. Our favorite wrestlers rub off on us more than you seem to want to believe.
Just like Cena/Orton, which we haven't seen since 18 months ago, huh?
Yeah, but where did she go from there? Gone from the company in less than a year? As soon as she lost that IC title she was given a Women's Championship and dumped soon after. What a career, huh?
It lent legitimacy to that for how long...while she was the IC champion? So, what? 4 months? 3? After that she was immediately dumped to Eddie Guerrero. What a bodyguard.
Not the women I've been seeing in the WWE.
They realistically go over a man twice their size? Which is probably literally the ratio between WWE Women's wrestler and any male wrestler on the WWE roster.
That will never happen, and you know it. Men will never compete amongst women in the NBA or NFL. You might get it in the PGA, if those old dudes wouldn't be so pissy about it. You're arguing an extreme that will never be reached.
No...it's realistic. You have Gail Kim go over Cena in a match. Go ahead. Even though she's half his size, you seem to think it'd be okay because as long as they acted competitive, people would believe it. But no one would. We're surrounded by violence against women everyday where men the size of Cena beat women the size of Gail Kim or Kelly Kelly or Mickie James or Maryse up. It's sad, but it's true. And this very truth is what makes a woman half the size of a man winning in a fake competition that is supposed to be about strength and out-lasting your opponent unbelievable.
Now, if you confronted the WWE with an entire roster of Chynas or Kongs, then we'd have a point to jump off from.