Given that information, I skipped over the Mickie James/Layla El match on Smackdown, and I'm glad I did, because I probably would have thrown something at the television. Apparently, Michelle McCool interrupted the match in front of a farm backdrop, making light of Mickie's "weight problem" by calling her "Piggie James". Furthermore, this isn't all just some angle; it's part of an attempt by management to get Mickie to drop a few pounds because she doesn't fit the Diva image.Bull-fucking-shit. If Mickie James is fat, then that makes me three Yokozunas. Does she have love handles on her lower back? Kinda. She's a bit round, but you know what? That's what people call HEALTHY! Take a look at Michelle McCool by comparison. Don't look at her face (in fact, from the pictures I've seen of the offending skit, the pig get up she had on improves on her god-awful looks), look at her body. You can almost see her ribs. She's skinny as a rail. I don't know where guys get off thinking that only Kate Moss/Nicole Ritchie types are attractive. Kim Kardashian, Salma Hayek, Jennifer Lopez and other women who actually have a little meat on their bones get the fires stoked for male (and lesbian) America... why can't the WWE take a cue from them?
This isn't anything new for the WWE though. They've had an image-obsession problem for the longest time. It's just that it never really came through for the women until recently, when they ran the reprehensible "Molly Holly is fat" angle. The image obsession has always been with the men of the company. Historically, tall, statuesque and usually roided-out-of-their-minds talents were the ones who got big pushes, and the smaller talents were left to mill about as job fodder until they went to either WCW or now, TNA. Sure, Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels back then, and CM Punk and Christian now don't fit that mold, but there are exceptions to every rule for one, and two, well then and now are special times in the company, times where it was and is under fire for steroid abuse and distribution.
At times, this obsession lead to the company pushing guys who clearly weren't talented enough to hang. Still, wrestling is becoming more and more a smaller man's game, now that the genetically gifted freaks are more going to other sports, and McMahon can't afford to be a chooser when he's been reduced to being a beggar in the market. So with the genetics out the window and the government sniffing his ass for steroids, well... he kinda has no choice.
But with women? You don't need great genetics or illegal performance enhancers to look good. You just need two bags of saline or silicone in the chest, two fingers down the throat, and if necessary, plastic surgery to turn offending body parts from liabilities to assets. If McMahon can't play the superficially obsessive game with the men, he sure as hell will do it with the women, blindly ignoring that it's variety that's the spice of life, and that if he's going to insist on putting EVERY Diva he signs into a wrestling ring, actual wrestling ability has to factor in at some point.
Of course, Mickie was vindicated last night at Survivor Series with her team reigning victorious over Queen Fugly. There's probably an entire shitty feud upcoming between Mickie and McCool which will go far in showing whether the Piggie James stuff was just feud fodder or whether they're really set on burying their most talented female wrestler because she's a bit doughy in the middle. Regardless of how it turns out, the Piggie James stuff sends the wrong message. For a fanbase that is as shallow as the WWE's is (remember, Vickie Guerrero was heeled for being "fat and ugly"), it's a bad way to differentiate a heel from a face in that manner. Plus, it's just bad form altogether.
Anorexia is bad, people.
look you rat bastard she is realy a pig you horny piece of shit
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