by koberulz on Sat Mar 17, 2012 3:33 am
Nothing the Rock is doing is making Cena's character look fresh. Cena going out there and actually being serious and not treating everything like a joke is what's making his character look fresh. Because it is fresh (2004 flashback aside, of course). Rock, on the other hand, is doing exactly what Cena's been criticised for, with added sexism and transphobia. And that's what's bothering me the most. A fair percentage of the roster are shitty promos, and that'll happen and I don't really care, but WWE's endorsement of the notion that women/transpeople are inferior to cismen is disgusting. And it is an endorsement, because either they're writing his promos, or they're not telling him to cut it out. And he's doing it in the pre-taped bits, too, which they'd have complete control over.