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| It doesn't matter who she's banged Photo Credit: WWE.com |
Kelly Kelly's release has caused a lot of reaction across the wrestling landscape, and most of it hasn't been flattering. She was the epitome of what was wrong with the John Laurinaitis-era of recruiting female "wrestlers." She was plucked right from the modeling circuit based on her looks, and she never really showed anything, at least to me, that suggested she had any natural aptitude for wrestling, acting or anything that didn't involve looking pretty. She wasn't good, and I thought that she was the worst working wrestler in the world before she left the company.
This kind of criticism is warranted to me, because it involves a discussion on her worth as a performer. However, with her release, there has been an insidious amount of people piling on her because according to people in the business (who may or may not be exaggerating things), she may have had more sexual partners than is acceptable for a female according to chauvinistic and hypocritical men. This isn't the first time that this undercurrent has bubbled to the surface. Remember when Randy Orton got into trouble for talking about Kelly's proclivities in a radio interview? However, she's not with the company, so it's open season, right? Look, even Colt Cabana's getting in on the fun too!
Well, I hate to break it to everyone, but no, Kelly Kelly's libido or alleged promiscuity is not fair game. It doesn't matter if she screwed one person or everyone in WWE or the wrestling industry on the whole. That's her business.
Women have battled sexual inequality forever. If they fuck more than an arbitrary number of guys in an arbitrary amount of time, then they're labeled as sluts. They get stigmatized by other women and sneered upon by men. Hypocritically, men enjoy sexual freedom to bang however many women they want. The more women conquered, the better.
This attitude is no more prevalent than in the wrestling industry, especially WWE. This is a company that employed Dave Batista, a guy who allegedly banged anything that moved. He had sex with Melina while she was still with John Morrison. Batista wasn't stigmatized at all, but it was Melina who was labeled a slut because she cheated on Morrison. Obviously, that cheating was an issue between Melina and Morrison, but why wasn't Batista stigmatized for being a man slut? Or how about stories of John Cena or especially Vince McMahon going outside their marriages for side pieces galore? It's a heinous double standard.
I'm not saying that we should be attacking men for being promiscuous. Honestly, whatever happens in their bedrooms is their business. I don't care if Cena cheated on his wife, as that's an issue between those two people. However, I also don't really want to hear about how women, even someone like Kelly, is a swamp whore or a slut or loose because she happened to have more than one sexual partner. Who she has sex with is the business of her and her partner. That is as true now as it was when she was a WWE employee.
This isn't a problem just in wrestling, but in society on the whole. Still, just because "everyone else does it" doesn't mean we should be accepting it in wrestling, especially a guy like Colt Cabana. I mean, his best friend has run through nearly every woman in wrestling twice, and he's lauded as being a stud. Why should Kelly feel scrutiny for "giving everyone in WWE release" when CM Punk's habits are ignored at best and praised at worst?
Americans' obsession with what goes on behind closed doors is insane. We would all be better off if we stopped trying to regulate behavior of people while in their bedrooms. If Kelly Kelly wants to bang everyone in sight, then that's her right as a human being. She doesn't deserve our judgment or scorn. Save your harsh words for the retrospectives on her wrestling "career." The fact that she was employed by WWE for as long as she was without ever learning how to run the ropes is the embarrassing thing here.
