Sparkybob
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 3, 2019 10:11:00 GMT -5
If it makes Vince money then sure he will do it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2019 10:14:41 GMT -5
I'm sure they WOULD, but I'm not sure they SHOULD.
And by that I mean because WWE would either do it with no class whatsoever, or try so hard to be classy about it that they ram that person down our throats.
I'm all for other wrestling promotions doing it though.
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Post by Tea & Crumpets on Apr 3, 2019 14:31:08 GMT -5
Do you think they might accept transgender wrestlers, or allow one of their own wrestlers to transition from one division to the next, without making it a joke like Santina? Do they even have any openly gay characters on their TV product that isn't a joke? I am not asking if they have any openly gay employees. I know they do and have. I mean that they have an openly gay character that isn't played for a laugh or had homophobic stereotypes used with them. They have Sonya Deville, where it's not really referenced because the core of her character isn't "look at me, I'm gay". It's just something incidental, which is what a lot of people called for as a better way of inclusive presentation (myself included). As for trans wrestlers, I suspect the sheer number of people who are trans and a wrestler and a good enough wrestler for WWE is a very small number (I literally only know of Nyla Rose and she just signed for AEW, and ASUKA who I've never seen wrestle)- but I see absolutely no reason why WWE shouldn't sign a trans wrestler if someone who is good enough comes along. For all the debates that exists regarding trans athletes competing in legitimate sports, WWE doesn't have that as an obstacle because it's not legit. We've seen Beth Phoenix square up to Khali and Nia Jax have the hoss spot in the men's Rumble, there's no debate to be had regarding trans wrestlers whatsoever. My bigger concern really is intergender matches. I'm fully in favour of it in concept, but the execution is...tough. It CANNOT go down the awful "Austin stuns Stacy cause she won't drink beer" misogyny route, but I'm also not a fan of the trend WWE had at one point that to avoid domestic violence undertones, the woman was the face/dominant/won all the time, or if a male face ever made contact with a female heel it had to be accidental, because that in itself has its own problems regarding gendered violence that hit pretty close to home for well, any man who has experienced DV/DA. It needs to be presented as strictly competitive & devoid of any gendered or moralised aspect, which is tricky given wrestling is a morality play. I don't even know that you could do that without somebody taking issue, because it's such a sensitive issue. As much as I'd like to see Asuka tear it up with AJ Styles, or Natalya go for the US Title like her uncle Bret, or Kacy Catanzaro and Cesaro as an athletic freakshow team, I don't know how you GET there without at some point getting problematic. If a company starts out that way that's way easier as it's just an established de-facto aspect of the universe that yeah men & women can wrestle against each other no biggie, but WWE would have a hard job to make the shift.
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