She is the most over female on the roster, but it’s for reasons based off not merit, but a combination of fetish and racism.
Rhea is amazing! No doubt about that, and in pretty much ANY other era, she’d unquestionably be THAT girl, but rocking with her while booing Bianca is strange.
It’d be fine if Rhea was cheered louder. Wrestling fans are who they are, but the nuances of what’s happening here is far deeper than just “Rhea is over and Bianca isn’t.”
Folks just can’t tell the truth because they think it’s a slight/threat to Rhea, when it don’t gotta be all that.
She just isn’t better than Bianca…like in any way. Period.
She doesn’t look better. Dress better. Wrestler better. Doesn’t have better matches or storylines. KOD >>>> Riptide. She’s clearly more feminine and marketable outside of skin color. They’re both jacked, so folks can’t even use the “Bianca is a little too muscular for most men” excuse. Only one of them looks like a man in certain lighting and angles, and it ain’t Bianca
It’s a gold medal to silver medal type situation more or less across the board.
And the crowd knows it too. That’s why they boo her so loud. It’s easier to do that than to embrace a reality where both should be loved just about the same at worst.
With how awful Rhea has been booked in this story narratively, this would be the perfect time for Bianca to be supported, but her greatness and skin color are both a threat to the fragility of Rhea’s perceived white excellence.
Bianca doesn’t have the complexion for the protection. It is what it is
Folks will use every excuse in the world rather than to look at the plain truth.
Talking about her character has gone stale as if Randy Orton isn’t getting the loudest pops of his career right now, or if it isn’t all love whenever Jeff Hardy pulls up
Cacs are very unserious.
Rhea told the truth when she told them crackers they boo Bianca because she’s too good. I can appreciate her keeping it real.
