The Wwf Effect Our Chilren Essay Research

The Wwf Effect Our Chilren Essay, Research Paper

Does Professional Wrestling Corrupt Our Youth.

Media analysts have uncovered a new culprit in the growing culture of violence

among American youth, professional wrestling. Long considered boorish and pretentious,

televised wrestling is now regularly full of vulgarity, obscenity, and sexual innuendo.

Critics say professional wrestling reinforces sexual and ethnic stereotypes and

communicates to young people that violent, vengeful acts are morally acceptable. The

devastating impact of all this violence affects children, because one-third of the viewing

population is children under the age of fourteen.

Years ago professional wrestling gave up the silly notion that it was simply a

sporting event. Promoters, programmers and the wrestlers themselves admit the matches

are choreographed and a winner is predetermined. Now, there are scriptwriters who write

lines for wrestlers to recite in the ring, in backstage dressing-room banter, even in car

chases. Running story lines of feuds between the wrestlers and their women followers

have included attempted rape. Threats of killing are common in the prematch rhetoric.

Real wrestling is secondary and participants are not so much athletes as actors.

I feel that professional wrestling, especially the WWF (World Wrestling

Federation), corrupts the moral values of our youth and has taken a step in the wrong

direction, especially concerning women. It makes womanizing seem glorious and

acceptable. In the past year, the WWF has stooped to portraying violence against women.

This violence is not portrayed as women wrestling each other, but as men beating up

women.

There are many sexual stereotypes occurring in the world of wrestling that

damages the minds of children. For example, the WWF has had a character called “The

Godfather.” His gimmick is, he’s a pimp. He has women dressed like prostitutes follow

him around. He calls them his “ho train” (whore train). If he is defeated, his opponent

supposedly takes the women from him for the night. I feel that his is very damaging to the

mentality of both boys and girls. This teaches boys that women are mere sex objects and

are inferior to men. Because of the WWF little girls grasp the idea that their intelligence

does not matter, just their body. It also instills in their mind that women are not equal to

men, but of lesser value. I believe that this type of observed behavior ultimately damages

the morality of children and obscures the difference between right and wrong.

In addition to the womanizing that is apparent in the WWF, there are also many

sexual innuendoes in reference to women. I watched one episode of WWF Smackdown!

on UPN and was shocked by what I saw. Val Venus, whose ring persona is that of a porn

star, addressed the women in the audience: Tonight, I would like each and every one of

you to invest in the Big Valbowski s mutual fund. You see, it s always up more than it s

down, and I promise you there will never be an early withdrawal. Big Valbowski is

Venus nickname for his penis. Try to think of a gentle way to tell your twelve year old

daughter what he meant by that. This type of innuendo degrades and disrespects women.

Val Venus disrespect women and talks down to them like they are less than human. In my

eyes, this type of behavior demonstrates to young boys that women are only worthy

enough to be treated as sexual objects.

Millions of children are watching this on TV. This will cause many of them to

grow up thinking that this is acceptable and normal. According to Dr. Bandura, a

behavioral psychologist, People become aggressive because they have learned by

experience, observation and/or imitation that it pays. A child’s readiness to learn through

imitation is a mixed blessing, as any mother will tell you. Children pick up undesirable

behavior as quickly as they pick up desirable activities (20/20 Internet). What children

see, children do. Children are like tape recorders. In large part, they replay and reenact

what they’ve seen and heard. When they see men beating up women, the image is stored in

their minds, waiting to be replayed and reenacted later.

The ironic part of these actions which corrupt the morality of our children is that

the WWF blames you, the parent, for the trauma that is affecting your children. In an

USA Weekend interview, one of the most famous wrestling superstars, “The Rock,” says

he has no problem with kids watching his show. However, he does add this: “As a

responsible parent, it’s important that you monitor what your kids are watching. At times,

our show is edgy. At times, it’s sexual. But we’re G-rated compared to what you can see

on other television shows. Nobody gets killed or raped on our shows. For a parent to

blame what their kids have done on me is ridiculous” (USA Weekend Internet)

The problem with The Rock s argument is that unfortunately

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