10 Architects Behind WWE's Demise
8. Stephanie McMahon, Again
Stephanie McMahon has lost sight of whatever the f*ck any of this is meant to be offscreen and on it.
She was raised to feel above all of this. She snarls to let you know. She ushered in the era of hacks scribbling squabbles in crayon, and she played perhaps the most damaging character in the history of WWE TV. As the Authority, Stephanie expressed her perpetual disappointment at the state of things. Nobody was worthy of the mythical 'A' in the longest-running episodic job evaluation in history. She rolled her eyes at the faces, the heels, the General Managers. Everybody. You could only weep, violently, and wonder what you were still doing.
Imagine Stephanie b*llocking Stan Hansen. She would have.
An exhausting and obnoxious source of drama - people work hard and scared all day to not be reminded of administration when they escape at evening - there was no resolution to it. It was like getting nipped in the blue balls for about three years. It was all so abrasive on a sensory level. That voice. That voice. That smug cadence, that screeching bravado. Of course you can tell Brock Lesnar to get out of your ring. You are management.
This is all for you, Damien.