10 Problematic WWE Storylines That Have Aged HORRIBLY
9. "Tim White's Lunchtime Suicides"
Attitudes towards every subject matter change over time, and this is a good thing.
Frightened, change-averse people whipped into daily frenzies by whatever an app is throwing at them that morning disagree, but change and development is a core constant in human history and one of the few great adverts for this disintegrating ball of gas we find ourselves trapped on.
The language of mental health is commonplace like never before, and thank goodness for that. As societies and communities, we are encouraged to think of problems in our head like problems with our arms or legs, which has shifted wider attitudes about suicide far towards the sympathetic side. That it didn't exist there the whole time is perhaps a minor shame on all of us, but again, growth through time.
It's not that Tim White attempting to kill himself in cartoonishly stupid ways back in 2005 was a profound failure to read shifting public sentiment, but more that WWE felt emboldened to do the bit at all. Lots of entries in this list fall into that bracket - the sheer arrogance and stubbornness of Vince McMahon wanting to produce them in the first place is substantially more offensive than the end product featuring performers that require a wage.