10 WWE Moments That Made You Extremely Uncomfortable

8. WWE Books Two Miscarriage Angles

To say that the Attitude Era was not renowned for its sensitivity towards women would be an understatement. Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, women were primarily used as sex objects, oiled up and wheeled out to perform in bikini contests and catfights. Bikini contest veteran Terri Runnels would have no doubt taken strutting her stuff in something skimpy over the deeply uncomfortable angle she was given in January 1999. Runnels claimed to be pregnant, blaming both her real-life husband Goldust and Val Venis, the latter of whom dumped her when he heard the news. Classy. Runnels then claimed to have suffered a miscarriage after D-Lo Brown had accidentally knocked her off the apron, in one of those 'too close to reality' angles. Of course, it was a set-up all along, a Vince Russo classic, as it later transpired that Terri had never been pregnant in the first place. You can never trust a woman can you, eh, Vinny Ru? WWE had the gall to run another miscarriage angle in 2004, this time with Kane falling on top of supposed mother-to-be Lita after he had been blasted by a Gene Snitsky chairshot. In the weeks that followed, WWE filmed Lita and Kane at the hostpital, with a comatose-looking Lita simply lying in the bed and starring straight into the camera. Weird. What WWE should know is that most people like to watch wrestling as an escape, a way to be entertained for a couple of hours and take their minds off their daily troubles. They don't want to watch wrestling to see such close-to-the-bone angles as a woman suffering a miscarriage. A miscarriage is a very real, painful thing and should not be used to further a wrestling storyline.