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: