John Cena + Gay Jokes = Anti Bullying Message

Dude..Raw IS a kid's show, it's not that hard to see...ya know, Power Rangers was a kids show as well, and it probably had better storylines then Raw's had in awhile.

I thought the brokeback one was pretty funny but okay someone got mad..

So now they have to please them which isn't a really bad thing I just didn't feel it was that big of an issue.

I swear they just did an anti-bullying storyline with Morrison saving Santino from Sheamus a month ago..?

It's not touchy it's smart, of course wrestling fans are probably the last to get on board with stuff like this but when you have role models using it as insults it perpetuates the issue. Kids repeat what they think is cool, these wrestlers do have a responsibility so to speak.

Not to go off on a tangent but the treatment of gays these days is horrendous, I can't think of another group of people in which it's cultural acceptable to mock. If Cena had been like "Well at least I'm not mixed race" then this board would be on a full out war path, so why is it acceptable to belittle another group of people?

Business wise its simply stupid to allow this practice to continue, while the fans may think it's PC when you do things like this you allow yourself to appeal to a broader audience.

I've enjoyed wrestling for a good portion of my life and I have been to tons and tons of live events and sometimes I just have to sigh because there are fans who do embody the stereotypical wrestling fan. What I mean is I just shake my head when I see beer swelling, loud mouthed swearing, ignorant fans. I shutter when I hear fans swearing a live events with kids all around. Whether smarks want to admit it or not wrestling's first audience is in fact kids. Ask anyone on this board when they started watching and 99% of the time they'll say in their child hood, get a kid as a fan and they will stick around for a while. So with that in mind I get a chuckle out of people saying it's not meant for kids, because this is a forum dedicated to the business of wrestling toys.

I don't really see it this way. For the most part WWE is presented as a sport, it's violent but all competitors voluntarily engage in said violence.

When WWE does use violence outside of the ring the heel is always the one committing the unprovoked violence, the face never engages in bullying. Hell even in the attitude era where faces so typically engaged in heel behavior you rarely got a face attacking a smaller, weaker, or unprotected wrestler with out prior provocation.

WWE is violent but it has it's own sense of morality to it which is why it's somewhat enjoyable to watch. We enjoy seeing things tied up nicely how we wish they would in real life. The bad guys usually gets what's coming to them and the good guys don't do bad things. It's pretty black and white even when it's pretending it's not say like ECW used to do.

I am iffy on the Cena topic. Cena is just not funny gay jokes or not. But this isn't the only time he used these jokes. Remember back durring the Wade Barrett and Nexus feud when he used these "jokes" on Justin Gabriel. It is just painful to hear anything come out of Cena's mouth post Word Life days. I back up what WWE are doing with the anti-bully thing. Yeah, it may seem a bit picking in Cena's case, but everyone will have their opinion.

It's not so much just the jokes themselves, even though they obviously are what started this, but the context they're used within. You have John Cena, the role-model to kids and leader of the TV-PG stance going out on National Television in front of probably 20-million people worldwide telling you "Hey, I'm calling you gay, aren't you offended and upset I would suggest you're such such an evil thing?" every week. If you're the show who promotes your not for families and your an 'Everything goes' type of show, like South Park, you know what to expect and know if it's something to ignore, fight or laugh at, but a show aimed at kids shouldn't be highlighted by John Cena, the uber-face, using homosexuality and lesbianism as derogatory subjects to insult someone with who has never once said anything negative about gays, at least anything that was notable, from what I can remember.

If you want to use Sheamus' heel character being beaten up by Morrison's face character for attacking Santino after Matches as a way to say "Bullying is bad", okay, that's logical, but don't have a face, let alone your top face using sexual orientations as insults to someone who never delves into that subject and is a heel. Wrestling is entertainment, they make that clear, but promos, while still entertainment, are things people in the real World will imitate more than a Piledriver. If you're a super-John Cena fan who heard him use gay jokes, even if your parents told you not to listen to that and never repeat it, if you dislike someone so much, like Rock and Cena portray they do, odds are they're going to at least try and make a gay joke, which, in the end, are jokes that shouldn't be used as insults, but if they are, make them teach a lesson or use them in private and admit it's a "guilty pleasure", so to speak.