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> 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."

Admittedly, the commercial does have Brock supposedly winning a bra &
panties match against Torrie, which is misleading, and granted, I'm not sure
if it would necessarily make a difference, but I am curious whether or not
this woman knows that this match is solely between female characters & not a
mixed male/female match.

As far as degrading to women, well, they may have a point, but as far as
/attacking/ women, it seems that it wasn't noticed from the previous games
that the women involved are WRESTLERS & beat each other up much the same way
the male characters do.




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