8 Damaging Ways Pro Wrestling Tackled Mental Health Problems

3. Females Be Crazy Sexy Crazy, Yo

When male wrestlers are portrayed as crazy, they are dangerous, unpredictable, exciting, compelling. When female wrestlers are portrayed as crazy, it's a lot creepier than that. Crazy chicks are sexy chicks, AM I RIGHT LADS. Even when crazy female wrestlers didn't play up her sexiness, like Victoria (who was great) they were often treated more like cat fighting vixens than fearsome. Mickie James, when she was introduced to the WWE, played a woman who was romantically obsessed with Trish Stratus, at one point forcing herself on her and kissing her (to the delight of the horny fans). In a Wrestlemania match between the two, in a moment edited out of current dvds of the event, James grabbed Trish's crotch then pretended to lick her fingers. Sexy crazy sexy sexy. The crazy chick character is still prevalent today. AJ Lee was crazy for a while, before she was allowed to just be awesome instead. She became obsessed with various men, kissing CM Punk, Daniel Bryan, Kane, John Cena and Dolph Ziggler in about a year, in one long jokey, passive-aggressive exercise in slut-shaming. Alicia Fox has gone crazy at ringside, dousing herself in water, screaming then strutting around sexily. For a while Paige appeared to have psycho-lovecrush on AJ Lee. Some people might label this as a view of a 'Social Justice Warrior', but portraying female mental instability as either a joke or something to find arousing, then that just subconsciously confirms in people's minds that 'yup, B*tches be crazy', which is patronising to women and anyone dealing with mental instability.