Sunday, July 24, 2005
It's Official -- We're Wimps
I posted last week that I thought it was silly the professional wrestling was getting complaints -- actually about anything -- but about an Arab American character who claimed he was discriminated against and then launched a seeming terrorist attack on another wrestler.
Well, now the character has been removed from the show.
That's what needs to happen here, if this guy is a little too close to reality, they need to pump up one of the more likable characters and have at him. How could that much muscle and bravado end up this wimpy? It's just sad.
Well, now the character has been removed from the show.
A company that organizes wrestling entertainment has agreed to remove an Arab-American character from a popular television show after receiving hundreds of complaints about an episode that aired the day of the deadly London bombings.We have got to pump some testosterone back into this country -- this is professional wrestling for crying out loud -- you don't remove characters for reasons of offense or taste -- you send in someone to beat the living daylights out of them. Well, actually in pro wrestling you ignore matters of taste, by definition it has none. In the Bush 41 Gulf War they introduced Arab characters (Iron Sheik) and American military characters (Sergeant Slaughter) and proceeded to let the battle commence. The mega-super-wrestling-star Hulk Hogan wrapped himself in the flag and beat the Shiek to within an inch of his life.
That's what needs to happen here, if this guy is a little too close to reality, they need to pump up one of the more likable characters and have at him. How could that much muscle and bravado end up this wimpy? It's just sad.
