Nothing says "Wrestling" quite like a chunky crack-whore in a G-String.

Let's skip all the clever moralizing and jump right to the central question here:
Why the heck doesn't Vince just chill on the smut for a while?

I'm sick and tired of discussing whether or not the 'Trish' thing was right or wrong. Let's assume for a second that it just doesn't matter if it was right or wrong. The fact remains that it gave a lot of ammunition to Vince's critics. I cannot believe that even Vince McMahon could honestly belive that the 'Trish' skit wouldn't cause an uproar. In fact, let's stop playing coy about this folks, Vince WANTED it to cause an uproar. All the cutesy little "but the WWF has ALWAYS done such and such, blah blah blah" defenses on the planet won't change the fact that Vince went way too far this time, and he KNEW he was going way too far. It's extremely dishonest to take a course of action intended specifically to cause controversy, then complain when the controversy actually arrives.

So, Vince (and by extension the WWF and wrestling as a whole) have been getting the living hell kicked out of them by the mainstream media. It seems to me that a smart man would of backed off a little, especially since he had absolutely nothing to lose by doing so. But instead of just letting the whole thing die, Vince continues to rub our noses in it show after show. Replays, references, his "live sex act" skit- he reminds me of that geeky kid in high school that had no freakin' clue when the joke just isn't funny anymore.

A lot of my fellow Net Writers act like they've had the part of their brain that's capable of rational thought surgically removed. They pretend they're too stupid to see any shades of difference between Lita's thong showing and Trish acting out Vince's rape fantasies. Grow up, guys, because the world as a whole ain't buying it, and I ain't buying it either. The two are NOT equivalent.

I ask: Would Smackdown really lose ratings if they didn't resort to extreme levels of offensiveness? I'm not even saying that they should abandon T&A. However, and this is the point I really wish my fellow Net writers would understand, there' s a line where "entertaining T&A" becomes "irresponsible and harmful bullshit", and Vince has crossed it.

Vince strikes me as a guy whose ego simply will not allow him to abandon a stupid idea, even if it's hurting him in the long run. And that's the real problem with the Trish angle: it's pointless and stupid. With ratings sinking and the XFL sucking wind, now is NOT the time to be making dumbass macho gestures. Vince needs to give it up already, and just let the it die. Somehow though, I just don't see it happening. Nah, instead Vince will strut, prance, and stick to his pointless, idiotic, self-destructive guns, and all us good little fans will line up behind him, moaning "Why does the media hafta be so mean to poor Vince?"