GLAAD not a fan of Cena's recent promos.
 

from their website via PWInsideher.com

WWE Partners with GLAAD on Anti-Bullying Messages

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) will be working with GLAAD to create and promote an anti-bullying initiative aimed at their core audience, and has invited us to conduct trainings for their staff of writers and editors.

Our outreach to WWE was prompted by outrage from many LGBT viewers, about a series of homophobic taunts by wrestler John Cena on the USA program WWE Raw in late February. We reached out to WWE Incorporated, which responded swiftly and positively.

GLAAD was first made aware of the incidents by several of its members following the February 21 broadcast of WWE Raw, which featured wrestler John Cena responding to taunts made by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson with a rap song making fun of Johnson’s film roles. The song included lyrics like “You left us high and dry to play a fairy with a tooth?” and “He wore lipstick in Get Shorty, and rocked a skirt for The Game Plan.”

But the real kicker came near the end when he said: "Just don’t go racing to Witch Mountain, Rock, cause your mountain is Brokeback."

The next incident occurred on the show a week later (Feb. 28), when Cena was challenging another wrestler known as “The Miz” while in the ring with him, and had the crowd roaring when he joked about the Miz and his wrestling partner secretly being a couple. It began with Cena saying “Do you really want to look back years from now and realize you shared your legacy with another man?! ….Wait don’t answer that.” Cena continued:

“Now The Miz and Alex Riley are co-champions and to celebrate it they’re going to move in together. They’re going to buy one of those tandem bikes and ride to bed bath and beyond to buy some duvets. And every evening they’re going to relax with a glass of warm piot noir and watch The Notebook, or reruns of last season’s Bachelor. ……….You want to be a mentor and train him? Well, tonight I’m going to train you on how to be a man.”

The incidents were particularly troubling because WWE recently began promoting itself as PG-rated entertainment marketed primarily towards adolescent males. Young boys are of course the demographic most likely to experience homophobic bullying or to be bullying themselves. And there was wrestling superstar John Cena performing what amounted to scripted homophobic bullying of other wrestlers on a nationally broadcast show for kids.

GLAAD contacted WWE executives and explained the problem after receiving our first reports. They then spoke to John Cena and the show’s writers. We have been assured that not only will such incidents not happen again, WWE intends to reach out to their adolescent audience, with messages aimed making it clear that bullying someone with homophobic taunts or for their perceived sexual orientation is wrong. WWE released the following apology statement to that effect:

"WWE takes this issue very seriously, and has already spoken with our talent about these incidents. We are taking steps and working with GLAAD to ensure that our fans know that WWE is against bullying or discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. We strongly value our fans in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, and apologize to them for these incidents."

We are very much looking forward to developing our relationship with WWE, and we thank them both for hearing our message loud and clear, and for planning to send an anti-bullying message of their own.

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Jesus fucking hell

So from now on theyre gonna promote sucking penis in a positive way?

This is going to be just like the Billy and Chuck angle, and WWE is just going to completely shit on gays on the next RAW.

Ryan Clark - JBL's return explianed...

Maybe this can force Cena and the writing team to have good material.

Those were some pretty awful promos

very junior high type of material

Well...

That's pretty much GLAAD does

not really nitpicky either

they just don't want people using old stereotypes


considering the fact alot of younger folks watch the show

yeah that's what I was trying to get at

Wait, wait wait...Cena knows what a duvet is, and he's calling other people gay?

Shiny mirror, man. Shiny mirror.

It's important for young kids to learn the new stereotypes for faggots.

lol you know what I meant :)

So not too far off the target audience mark.

don't you think his promos have been awful as of late though?

His first rap, that did contain the brokeback crack, was great. Other than that he's been above average from himself, but still kind of bad.

You have to remember what demographic they are selling this shit for. Even within the little taste of the Attitude Era, they're still marketing for a young audience, and they enjoy his promos.

it just seems lame to me

maybe that's just me though

what this guy said.

Good glad someone took notice, sad thing is most of the anti-gay jokes were in the best promo he's done in ages.

Yeah, but Tyler Durden knows what a duvet is too.

it depends on how you define "manliness." if manliness means having strong character and kicking ass, then the two have nothing to do with each other and it's just stupid.

if manliness means not liking cocks up your butt, then carry on.

if that's directed at me, i pretty much said this:

so we agree. i didn't think i was being that confusing.

I seriously find it funny that people are bitching about Cena's promos. At least they are not the same BS about hustle, loyalty, respect, Cenation, and never give up...blah blah blah. His promos may suck, but at least it's not the same old Cena lines that we have been forced to swallow (insert gay joke here) on every Raw since his face turn.

Well of course these promos aren't funny if you just read them.

Lol @ who has posted in this thread. Fags.

This sounds worse in print than it played out on television. I'll say that much.

Seems like everybody makes a mountain out of a molehill. It's ridiculous. This is America. Freedom of Speech, assholes. If you don't like the promo, don't watch it.

No, he stopped doing that once he became a face.

Why are they only complaining now. Half of Cena's material over the years have been homosexual innuendos.

The Rock made his fair share of homosexual innuendos in his day as well.

Free speech does not mean freedom from criticism dumbass.

Rock likes to shove things sideways up guys asses. More like sodomy, so the gays might be down with that :y:

obviously you don't get it do you.. :nono:

WWE should start a new gimmick with that fucking Husky Harris and call him the gerbil. That would make GLAAD happy and gay

Well the Miz is the WWE Champion...

I hate Cena promos too but fuck GLAAD. WWE would openly mock them 10 years ago. Man I feel like a blast from the past. I feel for Cena here. Wish he could tell them to shut the fuck up. But not tell me to shut the fuck up

:wtf:

What does Fruity Pebbles even mean?

I wish I could understand these American references.

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g1...yPebblesHR.jpg

Cena has a rainbow of colored shirts, much like the rainbow seen in Fruity Pebbles.

At least Cena's entire career is color coded thus far

They should watch TNA..I thought that was what the whole "eliminate the hate" thing was for.

The name GLAAD disturbs me...........

Hope they don't ask impressionable people to put their Companion Cubes into an incinerator or anything like that.

Yes, but it's better my way.

That's because you're a fag.

I wonder if there's a correlation there.

Yeah, but that's Tyler Durden. I know Tyler Durden, and Cena is no Tyler Durden.

And if the two are generally equated?

No, now it's the same BS about faggots.

Why do I have afeeling that despite all my disparaging gay comments, someone's going to call me PC in this thread before it's done?

Yes it does! It means I'm free to speak and you can't say ANYTHING ABOUT IT!

...Wait....:wtf:

This was a triumph
I'm making a spoiler: CENA WINS
It's hard to cover up his homophobia....

Or something like that.

that's called a negative stereotype.
did you have a point? just felt like quoting people maybe?

I love how you couldn't even follow your own line of thought beyond a single post.

Care to go beyond "it's a negative stereotype?" Because, well....duh.

WWE Has always been Gay Friendly.

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Thanks for keeping it real KK

:)

I keep it real. Real gay. ;)

Hey, remember when WWE got all that positive press for Billy and Chuck as positive gay stereotypes a week before their "wedding?"

Now you're just being an ass :p

that storyline was awful and was not a positive image at all

in fact it was abit of a mockery

plus I can't believe GLAAD actually thought it was real

I'm not the one who praised them for it.

I'm just pointing out how fucking funny it is....

yeah it's as if the media had no fucking idea that WWE and pro wrestling was a work

it's abit humorous that a group like GLAAD actually sent them a gift for the wedding

to me though that whole Billy and Chuck angle was a ripoff of Lenny and Lodi

...

my point was that being gay has nothing to do with masculinity or physical competency. it was sarcasm indicating that equating the two is for the archaic and dim-witted, and it doesn't entertain me at all.

there, it's all spelled out for you now.

I think it'd be nice although it'd never happen if WWE put a positive spin on a gay character instead of them being portrayed as villains

Remember when TNA said they were bringing in a positive Bisexual character?

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g1...qdefault-1.jpg

They were treating them as portrayed characters. Don't pretend they thought it was real. They just thought this would lead somewhere positive.

...Which pretty much everyone and their mother should have looked at, and said..."Wait, what?"

And yet, you still couldn't follow a simple question. :) Nice retcon, but no cigar.

It's not quite the same, but Vito managed to make the crossdressing gimmick work for him. And he had some nice responses. I don't know (and I doubt) if that was the intent, but still. He didn't suddenly become a mincing little girl, he was a guy who would kick your ass.

In a dress.

Billy and Chuck, likewise, got great responses right up to the wedding and the "swerve."

Of course, a serious intent on a conscious level, beyond say, lower midcard? Probably not.

But then, when you're watching something this homophobic, it should be no surprise. And that has nothing to do with Cena. Wrestling is so homoerotic it can only be aimed at insecure males.

The gay police out in full force.

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i don't even understand this, nor do i care to continue arguing with someone looking for a forum post retard-a-thon over the internet. if you actually have questions for me, pm them. and please make sense.

this isn't the issue. it's portraying homosexuality as a weakness and something to be embarrassed about that is just so overdone.

which is what I was trying to say

but thanks for saying it

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The only way Cena can do "comedy" promos is with a bunch of bad gay jokes. Sad, yes. Offensive, no.

maybe not offensive to you since you're most likely straight

but alot of young people look up to CENA and since he says it well then they're gonna think it's ok to use those words

keep in mind there have been alot of gay teen suicides in the last several months

GLAAD needs to go straight to hell. That is all.

And, to clarify, so does any organization that wets its pants every time someone hurts their stupid little feelings. This includes NOW, the NAACP, and anyone with the word "anti-defamation" in their name.

I see what you did there.

Turn the Cenation into the Gleenation. Gays are happy.

God dammit. I so wish I could take credit for that.

Exactly the point. You're too dumb to catch on.

OMG. Were they related to Cena's promos?

It's tenuous to try and connect this stuff up with suicides because you're basically using the "TV/Video Games/movies/whatever makes you violent" argument, that the medium is actually dictating our behaviours and moralities. I know you're not referencing the kids themselves watching then killing themselves, but for there to be any sort of link, the reason has to be tied in somehow. Like, say, the people who bully them got their morality from WWE, the same way the Columbine guys "learned to kill" from Doom.

At best, you can argue it's poor taste, but I honestly doubt there's an increase in gay teens killing themselves, so it's not so much something new or shocking.

That's not to say "hur hur gay bashing is awesome." It's just saying "STFU with the Jack Thompson defense."

Though if they are Cena-related, WWE has a new gimmick: Cena has the power to rap people to death.

I never ever claimed it was because of the WWE

but I am just saying that young kids who watch WWE will think it's ok to use those words

I'll shut up now

politically incorrect humor is awesome when the observations being made are fresh or intelligent. this was not one of those times.

I see where you are coming from here but isn't it up to the parents to properly educate their children on what is or isn't okay to say?

Of course you didn't. The problem being, there's no reason to bring it up unless you want to equate the two.

Hence, the mockery.

Though WWE should totally have Cena rap people to death.

I thought this was proven true after one of the kids ran over the bodies of his victims in an attempt to re-stock his ammunition...

Apparently Michael Cole called Josh Matthews a "faggot" on twitter. Was picked up by TMZ, post was removed, apology posted.

:lol:

This. If you listen to John Cena before you listen to your own parents, thats a problem that starts at home.

From the front page:

Less than two weeks after the WWE and GLAAD teamed up to say they were going to work together to curb homophobic slurs in wrestling, one of the WWE’s top announcers tweeted one at a fellow announcer.

Earlier today, Michael Cole simply tweeted one disgusting word towards fellow announcer Josh Mathews. Cole quickly took down the tweet and apologized.

The WWE and GLAAD announced a partnership on March 17 to try and put an end to bullying based on sexual orientation after a series of homophobic taunts was made by wrestler John Cena.

WWE said at the time: “WWE takes this issue very seriously, and has already spoken with our talent about these incidents. We are taking steps and working with GLAAD to ensure that our fans know that WWE is against bullying or discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.”

A rep for the WWE tells TMZ, “WWE has alerted GLAAD to the situation and spoken to Michael Cole about his post. He has removed it and apologized for using hateful language. Michael will be included in the training session being done by GLAAD. WWE takes this very seriously and is against discrimination of any kind based on sexual orientation, gender, race, religion or other.”

A rep for GLAAD could not be reached for comment.

TMZ.com has also posted screen caps from Cole’s tweet. It should be noted that Cole earlier tweeted that he was not told to issue an apology. WWE’s statement to TMZ.com contradicts that statement. Once again, damage control at its finest folks! I can’t imagine Vince McMahon is thrilled with this either. Good luck at RAW Monday, Michael!

UPDATE: The Baltimore Sun has picked up the story. Expect a ton more in the coming days.


Are you freaking kidding me?

"TMZ.com has also posted SCREEN CAPS from Cole's tweet".

Screen Caps and all that?

That is sooooo gay.

http://ll-media.tmz.com/2011/03/26/0...l-cole-exd.jpg

lol

Haha...that's a little over the edge, I think...

...it's not like Cole said he was going to murder him or anything...

...I don't know.

LOL Cole is the man

Oh shit son, it's real now. :lol:

Wouldn't surprise me to see Michael Cole out of a job after Wrestlemania. I can see Lawler beating him so bad he is put in a coma until this all blows over. (Much like Vince McMahon after Bret shit pumped him)

:lol: Cole isn't going anywhere.

Vintage Cole! lol.

I think too much is being made of this, Cole is just being in character.

BUT if WWE made a policy for talents to tone down on slurs, then Cole is to blame.
Personally I think GLAAD is just looking for attention. Its an insult, its not saying that gay people are bad, its just a way to diss someone. Like if you call someone shorty, are short people going to have to feel insulted? lol!

Seriously? 10 days after the GLAAD announcement no less you dont see an issue with a homophobic slur being used by a WWE talent?

So we're in the Purple years now....hmmm.

I honestly think that Cole has just boosted his image even more on WWE, and you know Vince McMahon won't hesitate to jump on something like that to use to his advantage.