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Post by classicfan on Jun 27, 2007 19:09:41 GMT -5
I was just kinda wondering what insults have been thrown at you guys for watching wrestling. Please tell some stories if possible of times when it has happened. ---- I'm lucky enough to have at least one friend, out side of here, that likes it. When me and him talk about it together, alot of people laugh. I just ignore them. Actually today, he and I were discussing the whole Benoit fiasco while taking our summor classes and a guy kinda butted in and asked if we were serious. We both answered yes and wrestling was gay. I just said, "aahhhh no." and turned back to the conversation. He then proceeded ask why anyone would like to see a bunch of sweaty dudes touching themselves for money. I just shook my head and told him to  off. My favorite insult has to be the one where they sit there and ridicule wrestling for being a bunch of sweaty mean touching eachother but then say, "Now UFC, that stuff I like." The same thing goes on in the octagon my friend...except with more rubbing together on the ground...  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2007 19:23:15 GMT -5
I just say "By making up propaganda about people you don't like being homosexuals means you may be covering up for your own sexual preference."
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2007 19:27:33 GMT -5
I'm not sure why society is so anti-wrestling. I've observed the situation, and it seems that most anti-wrestling fans are smaller people, perhaps self-conscience about their size. I've never seen a physically imposing person that was anti-wrestling. Most media analysts that are against the performance art of professional wrestling are nerdy looking wealthy people.
Perhaps because wrestling is generally a "big man" performance art, people are anti-wrestling because they view wrestlers as threats to their manliness. They justify their hatred by accusing wrestling of being gay (the old "sweaty men touching each other" argument), or being a performance art "for rednecks."
I've come across many anti-wrestling fans since I started watching in '99.
It's easier to just ignore them.
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Post by classicfan on Jun 27, 2007 19:32:26 GMT -5
Well Plaster, the guy that that confronted me and my friend today was easily 6'2, 275lbs.
I'm 5'10, 135lbs.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2007 19:34:23 GMT -5
Well Plaster, the guy that that confronted me and my friend today was easily 6'2, 275lbs. I'm 5'10, 135lbs. Awww! You could've taken him! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2007 19:38:41 GMT -5
Well Plaster, the guy that that confronted me and my friend today was easily 6'2, 275lbs. I'm 5'10, 135lbs. Build kind of sounds similar to Benoit's, give or take a few inches height-wise... Run for your life! |
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Post by classicfan on Jun 27, 2007 19:39:02 GMT -5
Nah...Lol...Plus, this is my only chance to make up a class. If I get kicked because of a fight, I have to graduate high school a year later.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2007 19:43:14 GMT -5
Nah...Lol...Plus, this is my only chance to make up a class. If I get kicked because of a fight, I have to graduate high school a year later. Knowledge is very important so I am deffinatley going to say graduate...... ....THEN KICK HIS ASS! |
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Post by vivalaraza1331 on Jun 27, 2007 19:46:08 GMT -5
I wore a Chris Benoit shirt in tribute and had insults hurled at me all day Tuesday. Little kids--and this is the sad part--kept asking me why I was wearing the shirt of a murderer. I may have deserved it but it was still, in the very least, sad.
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Post by wwe4ever on Jun 27, 2007 19:48:00 GMT -5
One guy at my school said "Wrestling is gay, it's just another excuse for you to see half naked men touch each other". I told him to right off and the idiot never said anything to me from that day on. |
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Post by Spevo™ on Jun 27, 2007 19:50:59 GMT -5
once i was indirectly insulted by a teacher. she said that she once went to a wwf event and that the people in the crowd smelled like, and i quote "old hoagies". She also said that famous analogy that wrestling is like a soap opera, and that she doesn't get why people like it. Also my girlfriend's father insults me all the time. He says the whole how its "fake" thing and how that anyone who likes it is stupid. I always say something along the lines like "I want to see you go and slam your self on the ground a few times or jump off the tope rope of a wrestling ring and then youtell me how "FAKE" it is when your whining in pain" He usually laughs at me and says something like "OK, whatever"
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Post by Greg Weinstein on Jun 27, 2007 19:53:30 GMT -5
I'm not sure why society is so anti-wrestling. I've observed the situation, and it seems that most anti-wrestling fans are smaller people, perhaps self-conscience about their size. I've never seen a physically imposing person that was anti-wrestling. Most media analysts that are against the performance art of professional wrestling are nerdy looking wealthy people. Perhaps because wrestling is generally a "big man" performance art, people are anti-wrestling because they view wrestlers as threats to their manliness. They justify their hatred by accusing wrestling of being gay (the old "sweaty men touching each other" argument), or being a performance art "for rednecks." I've come across many anti-wrestling fans since I started watching in '99. It's easier to just ignore them. ...Wow. |
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Post by Flyrfn144 on Jun 27, 2007 19:56:04 GMT -5
I always have people say "Oh wrestling sucks, it's all fake. blah blah blah" and I always tell them that they are completely wrong because yes the story lines are fake, but the wrestling itself is 100% real.
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Post by inrogers29 on Jun 27, 2007 19:56:14 GMT -5
Its fake.
So are movies and tv shows, so I guess were not allowed to enjoy those either.
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Post by JTG on Jun 27, 2007 20:01:53 GMT -5
There's this one buddy I have who says that "it's just a bunch of oily men in speedos touching each other". I just come back with "yeah...and you watched the OC". He shut up pretty quickly. Also when I'm talking with one of my friends about wrestling there's always some guy with us that's like "You know it's fake right?"...me being the easy going guy I am am like "NO! It can't be! It's fake...thanks for ruining it for me". I just shrug it off when someone gives me crap about it. It's a T.V. show. I know it's not real. It's like watching NCIS, CSI, or According to Jim. It's entertainment and I watch it to be entertained. I always say that and the people are always like "Yeah, as long as you only look at it that way".
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Post by Bubba Ray DJ on Jun 27, 2007 20:03:04 GMT -5
I've heard alot of really dumb things from non-fans over the past two days from this Benoit stuff. Pretty cold hearted stuff too.
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Post by jomoishollywood on Jun 27, 2007 20:03:52 GMT -5
I get insulted about it alot.
I tell people its just what I like.
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Post by JCF on Jun 27, 2007 20:08:39 GMT -5
My friends mom was like, Thats just grown men making fools out of each other. Thats like the worst i've ever been told about it
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Post by plasticsuperstar on Jun 27, 2007 20:38:48 GMT -5
If someone see wrestling as gay then that says more about them for how they are perceiving it.
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Post by Stevo on Jun 27, 2007 20:46:11 GMT -5
"For those who don't watch wrestling, no reason is good enough. For fans, no reason is needed."
-paraphrased from Jeff Jarrett
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