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#3 Continued boring lack of story progression for the Women’s Rumble
One thing that has prevailed since the women’s Royal Rumble match has been announced has been, well, nothing. A bunch of women are fighting each other in repetitive matches and pretty much everyone is spinning their wheels. The only actual story being built is the possibility of a triple threat between Alexa Bliss, Asuka, and Nia Jax. Outside of that, it’s just completely skippable because everything that happened last week is the same as everything that happened last week.
It’s a shame, and it just goes to show that it was only going to take so long until the “Women’s Evolution” became a complete buzzword. I mean, we have to be fair. From the very beginning, it was just a PR move from WWE because female athletes were in the spotlight big time a couple years back, so they capitalized on it. But if you look at what’s happening in the women’s division now and compare it to everything from before they were given their brief spotlight, and it looks eerily similar. We’re back to status quo, just with a peppering-in of “first time” matches and “historic” events. That’s all it has become. They aren’t being treated equally. WWE is just selling that to us and we’re buying it.
And even sadder, I’m not even sure if WWE realizes they’re doing it. With everything company-wide being so homogenized and sterilized, they might think that they really are giving the women better treatment than they were a few years ago. The thing is, the bra & panties matches, Thanksgiving gravy bowl crap and all of the other demeaning, degrading stuff had already been gone for quite a while before the “Women’s Revolution” began. WWE just quietly slipped back into that territory, and nobody seems to have noticed because the men’s stuff isn’t all that much better.
