Season Analysis

Raw

Season 33 Analysis

Season Woke Score

out of 10

Season Overview

2025 season of WWE Raw

Season Review

Season 33 of "Raw" (the 2025 WWE Raw season) maintains its foundation as a sports entertainment program centered on competition, power, and factional loyalty. The core narrative is driven by classic heel vs. face dynamics, with a heavy emphasis on championship pursuits and internal conflict within groups like The Bloodline and The Judgment Day. The series presents a roster with broad racial and ethnic diversity in prominent roles, yet judges characters primarily on their performance and ability to gain power, adhering to a meritocratic structure. The most notable deviation from a classic structure is the portrayal of women, who are elevated to an equal standing with men, often dominating the narrative and occupying clear "Girl Boss" archetypes as powerful, near-perfect competitors and faction leaders. Themes of explicit anti-Western sentiment, religious hostility, or gender theory lecturing are entirely absent, suggesting the content is largely insulated from specific, explicit political agendas, prioritizing dramatic combat and star power above all else.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics3/10

A wide array of races and ethnicities are featured prominently, including the Samoan Bloodline and The New Day, but these characters' struggles focus on power, championship wins, and internal family/faction loyalty. Character success is achieved through competitive merit rather than through a narrative that lectures on privilege or systemic oppression, avoiding the highest scores in this category. Vilification of 'whiteness' is not a component of the character arcs.

Oikophobia1/10

The central drama revolves around competitive sports entertainment, not a critique of Western civilization or heritage. Storylines emphasize internal power struggles within a professional wrestling context. The focus on factions like The Bloodline, which celebrates Samoan heritage, is a form of cultural affirmation, not civilizational self-hatred.

Feminism7/10

The female performers are consistently presented as dominant champions and integral leaders of factions, such as Rhea Ripley in The Judgment Day. The women's division storylines are given 'the same fervor as the men,' positioning female characters as supremely capable and powerful 'Girl Boss' figures. Their professional careers and competitive success are the sole measure of fulfillment. The portrayal of these women as superior to or in command of male characters in their respective groups drives the score upward.

LGBTQ+1/10

No storylines or overt characterizations center on alternative sexualities, gender ideology, or the deconstruction of the nuclear family. When traditional relationships are featured, they are standard male-female pairings involved in the dramatic feuds of the show, like the conflict between the married couples CM Punk/AJ Lee and Seth Rollins/Becky Lynch.

Anti-Theism1/10

Religion is absent from the core narrative and character motivations. The show's conflicts are entirely secular, dealing with power, betrayal, and title competition. There is no depiction of traditional religion as an evil force or Christian characters as bigots, leaving the score at the lowest possible rating.