WWE SmackDown! 5 Blasted By UK Government as "Pornography"

[The Dork Knight]

-- There's currently some controversy in the UK over the new WWE game 'Smackdown: Here Comes The Pain' as reported by the Birmingham Evening Mail newspaper.

-- A Midland MP and a rape counseling charity have blasted WWE over the option of the 'Bra and Panties' match, which the object of the match is to undress your opponent.

"It's very lacking in taste," said Caroline Spelman, Tory MP for Meriden.

-- She said that the game is currently being marketed with this feature and according to her it's "leaving a bad taste in the mouth."

"This game is degrading to women," said Maggie Williams, project manager of the Birmingham-based Rape and Sexual Violence Project.

"It's giving people, particularly children and teenagers, the message that it's okay to attack women, which is very wrong."

-- Williams also fears that kids playing the game may copy what they see in the bra and panties match and do the thing in real life!

"To me this screams pornography. I think it should be banned and a review carried out on computer game content."

- The Dork Knight

[Jade_GL]

Silly. As a woman, I am not offended by the bra and panties match.

Sure, it's not your typical Elimination Chamber match, but it's on TV and a part of the WWE. It's pretty much just a submission type match where you grapple the woman and pull off her top and bottoms, leaving her clothed in her underwear. That's it. Oh, and it's two women fighting. The way they talk about it makes it seem like it's a man vs. woman type match, which is just untrue.

And of course, they seem to forget that 90% of the game is men beating up men, not bra and panties matches. I guess it's ok for men to attack men, but women fighting other women is taboo.

Get over it, it's a game and you never have to play a bra and panties match if you don't want to. The only way you can play is to set up a match in Exhibition or to choose to play one in season, if the option comes up, but you never have to because you can't play as a woman in season mode.

Oh well.

[Nin-Nin69]

Copy the Bra and Panties match in real life? So you're telling me the average 9 year old kid in the UK can easily set up a backyard wrestling ring and convince 2 girls to wear their sunday best and rip each others clothes off. Thats what you're saying right? And you're trying to twist that stupid though in your heads around and add sexual preferences that involves actual rape in the ring. Am I getting warmer here? In conclusion the Bra and Panties matches in the WWE are considered violent acts of forced rape and shouldn't be seen by younger audiences.

Now correct me if I'm wrong here, but wasn't it first called an Evening Gown match? And wasn't it first started by male wrestlers in the WWE, but then done by women like Sable in the future to boost the ratings. And now the perverted and annoying people of the WWE such as The King dubed the name of this match Bra and Panties because the fans rather see women tear their clothes off than men. Thus angry brittish mothers in a confused act of fury tear down Buckingham Palace in order to regain women's rights.

I'm going to now state 3 things about this whole argument.

1) Just because the female wrestlers are tearing each others clothes off, doesn't mean they're comiting those same sexual acts your sick little minds would think of children copying. It's an elimanation match. And believe me most of the women in the WWE are well trained and are very strong. So they can take care of themselves.

2) Children are still confused by the actions shown on the game and the TV as well. Most kids find it funny or entertaining compared to the plot at hand when women get into a cat fight over each other's man or whatever the stupid plot may be. Nobody in the game or the wrestlers on Smackdown comes out and scream, "Now put your wang in her mouth!" It's all part of the show. Not a big deal here. Although I don't hear you crying this when the guys rip each others attire. Other than female rights, you're claiming this to be an act of rape victims. Don't forget there are male victims too.

3) The case you have put against the WWE and THQ will be thrown out the window because you've failed to realise what you said.

[Boy Wonder]

Stupid British people (I mean, the newspeople). They seem IMO to have the most negative opinions on EVERYTHING!