50 Ups & 50 Downs For WWE's Decade: The 2010s
9. The Divas Division
The Women's Revolution was brilliant on its own terms, but it was a miracle considering just how much work needed to be done to chase away the ghosts of divisions past.
When matches and angles weren't designed as p*ss breaks or box-ticking filler, they were toxic in the extreme. Women fought over the title one at time, or men, or how Jerry Lawler's belief that "all women secretly hate each other", or Playboy magazine covers, or whatever a bunch of old white men thought young women cared about.
Natalya got the farts, Nikki Bella wished Brie had died in the womb and Alicia Fox was perpetually cast as crazy because all women were. Decent matches were forgotten whilst well-trained wrestlers and hard-working ex-models alike were all undermined.
Bullsh*t, and eventually (tacitly) called as much.