I have always been a little girl in love with professional wrestling. You can tell that from my “About Me.”
I was brought back in the most recent time from a friend having a Royal Rumble party.
He would draw the numbers out of a gold bingo wheel and all, and everyone had a five-dollar bet on their number. Whoever wins the Rumble with the right number wins the pot. He specifically said, “I think you will really love what is happening in women’s wrestling right now.”
I first saw Mercedes Moné when she was the other name (Sasha Banks), that night and I didn’t love her at first—something about her was off-putting at first.
By the time she would meet Charlotte and Becky for the not-butterfly belt, I was a full-fledged fangirl for Mercedes Moné.
I then decided to take my youngest son to see NXT live. It was playing at the local college, and I love live wrestling. I had not watched NXT ever; I just heard the live shows were great, and wow, what a night. I got to see American Alpha vs. FTR, known as The Revival, and chant, “Asuka’s gonna kill you.”
But the strangest thing happened that night too.
Bayley’s music came on, and I just started crying. I’m talking Kim K ugly crying. My dad asked me, “Do you know this girl?”
“Nope, I have no clue who she is, Dad.”
What a weirdo I felt like—just getting into energy and feeling so overwhelmed I was crying, only like I do when a country song hits me in feelings I didn’t know I had. That was what her music triggered in me that night.
back on topic today as last nights Smack Down has me seeing the waters we are getting into now.
I have this undying fire in my heart for professional wrestling, and more importantly than that, it is how the women’s movement is always playing out through glitz, glam, and too-tight bras.
I have a lot of thoughts about Charlotte losing to Tiffy Time, who I call Titty Time in my house, long before they put Trish Stratus on her arm to make it seem like we should treat her with credibility.
Now, Trish was my go-to hero until she pranced out telling me to respect Tiffy Time for more than the fact that no matter the size, the blonde young ones with huge puppies get the screen time.
The thing we need to worry about here is the shelf life a woman has in WWE. If we are already acting like Charlotte isn’t the WWE standard, then what are we doing? What are we saying to girls?
A 25-year-old rivalry between old men, is epic, but actually reinventing the division seven years ago is too old?
Well then.
Isn’t it nuts that Cena can be patch bald, but Charlotte can’t be her age?
This is one of those times when WWE acts like they are moving the needle on girls, but it is only for show. It is all Hot and no Heart.
I mean, Jade Cargill is a god. Anytime she comes out, my daughter tells me I’m not a right person for saying so many positive things about the womans physique. She is truly a joy to look at. But to watch her wrestle?
They have her and Tiffy, who are just carbon versions of the other in another color. Tiffy, the hot blonde, and Jade, the strong Black woman—it’s Suzi Carmichael and Angelica Pickles.
This is what we have to look forward to, and sure it is nice to look at, but as a fan of girls and living in a world where a girl can feel valued for more than her looks.
What got me today was Charlotte using Mercedes for a storyline.
Walking out to because she did not get her way instead of staying to be abused by people who have no value for her unless it is to be the Crone of the group.
They are using it to be douches, or to have Mercedes go off and cause a little rivalry rating bump in tandem?
In the end, it is Mercedes who will be the maverick of women’s wrestling while we watch the other three horsewomen take what they could get and be fine with it.
I would love to see Ashley and not Charlotte, and Pamela Rose and not Bayley, instead of having to watch them every week now and feel like I should be sending out hugs the way I did for Sasha Banks when I watched her lose to Nia Jax and Alexa Bliss and everyone else while she was the best thing the industry had ever seen.
Triple H thinks he is so progressive, and so does Stephanie, but I will remind you this was still the time of Mud Matches they come from.
The Man can stay where she is—she was always my least favorite anyway.
The disgrace is alive and well in women’s wrestling. May Tiffy enjoy her seven years until she’s replaced and showing the next fake-boobed blonde like they had Trish do. And also, why are we not calling it a MOLLY GO ROUND!?
Also, Penelope Ford is a hot blonde also doing a Molly Go Round.
Keep your heads up, ladies. It is all just part of the bigger story, but dont forget you can go your own way.
