Agree or Disagree: Political Correctness is one of the biggest reasons why the WWE is ruined?

[Majour]

Spot hit the nail on the head.

 

[edge4ever]

Spot hit the nail on the head.

I'll hit you right on the head.

 

[Jacob Fox]

Nope. It's bad because the writing is bad.
And a writer who has to resort to "edgy" and "non PC" stuff to get a reaction is not that good a writer to begin with.

Absolutely. That was very similar to what was in my mind.

There's plenty of good wrestling out there that doesn't deliberately spit in the face of political correctness.

Even before WWE started moving towards the PG orientation, the product had begun to suffer. The pre PG era gave us Lita being forced to marry Kane and Snitski causing her to have a miscarriage and we ended up with Snitski sucking Mae Young's foot at Wrestlemania 22. The Attitude Era gave us Mae giving birth to a hand. The Invasion gave us Steve Austin as a crybaby when he thought Kurt Angle waa going to kill him.

Point being that sucky writing existed back then too.

 

[The GOAT]

Absolutely. That was very similar to what was in my mind.

There's plenty of good wrestling out there that doesn't deliberately spit in the face of political correctness.

Even before WWE started moving towards the PG orientation, the product had begun to suffer. The pre PG era gave us Lita being forced to marry Kane and Snitski causing her to have a miscarriage and we ended up with Snitski sucking Mae Young's foot at Wrestlemania 22. The Attitude Era gave us Mae giving birth to a hand. The Invasion gave us Steve Austin as a crybaby when he thought Kurt Angle waa going to kill him.

Point being that sucky writing existed back then too.

I actually enjoyed the whole Kane/Snitsky/Lita angle myself.

 

[Snowman1]

When reading the OP, the main thing that came to mind was when ADR was bitching about "getting backstage heat" over him going to a kid in the front row and ripping up a Ziggler sign. WWE got upset because he was "hurting the experience for the kids in the crowd" but really, that's how lifelong fans are made. That kid must have smiled so big at Ziggler punching this ass in the face over that sign.

See also: the babyfaces being told backstage to "smile and no-sell losses".

You don't need to result to Attitude Era BS (although a LITTLE bit of that every now and then is fine) but when you're getting in the way of what makes pro wrestling work just to be "politically correct" then it's a problem