It kind of makes me wonder what they’ll eventually do to Maxine. I’d hate to see her go down the Hoeski line because she’s one of the best newbies for the Diva’s that I’ve seen in a long time.

The secondary argument that John Cena should know better than to take part in a segment encouraging a crowd to verbally bully a woman (all while proudly wearing a Be A Star patch on his sleeve) in the ring (albeit a heel) is a seperate matter, and one that cannot be simply excused as being “OK in the Attitude Era.” Times change, and so does acceptable behaviour. As Chris Jericho took a hammer to Chyna would that be OK now? HHH having sex with a corpse? Mae Young giving birth to a fake hand? The death of Al Wilson? Akeem the African Dream? There’s a reason that these things are cringeworthy when looked back on, and that they don’t tend to do this type of storyline any more.

I agree that WWE is only a smaller part of society as a whole, but the fact is that they are a highly influential organisation with millions of viewers of all ages. As someone who was also raised primarily by women, and has 3 younger sisters, it’s not the kind of thing I would like them to watch. And I’d like to think that any group trying to push a PG product would admit with hindsight that they have missed the mark on this one.

This sounds more of a feminist post to me, and if that was what this post was about, mission accomplished. And before you think I’m against respect for women, don’t get it twisted. I was raised MOSTLY by women for 25 years, and I have a sister who I will protect at any cost. I don’t respect Chris Brown and would like to see him get his due. This wasn’t a problem during the Attitude Era, why is it now? If this is such a problem, then you might want to talk to whoever control society, because WWE isn’t the only one that has this “awful” mind process. BTW, I’m not so much defending WWE (as they have and still do some stupid, tasteless stuff that I refuse to defend them on, ), as I’m trying to make a point across.

I fully respect your opinion, and by no ways are you wrong whatsoever, but I feel this is being made into something much deeper than it needs to be. Simple as that.