Trouble Seems To Be Part Of Professional Wrestling
Popularity of Professional wrestling is to a large extent not viewed too favorably by parents. While children love this phenomenon, parents find certain wrestling styles to be offensive and disturbing. In many homes, children are banned from watching professional wrestling on television. This does lead us to the question of - Is all the fuss justified, or is professional wrestling really just a soap opera for boys?
Professional wrestling basically means that it's fake. No one really entertains ideas that the wrestling we see on national television is real anymore. The wrestlers are simply actors and what they do isn't difficult. There is an element of reality in it since the possibility of someone getting hurt is always there.
Where the controversy lies is not in whether professional wrestling is real or fake, but people wonder what it's teaching our children. Wrestling is extremely violent, that much is true. But in recent years wrestling seems to have taken a shift into uncharted territories. Wrestling has always played on certain stereotypes of race and ethnic background but many parents are objecting to the sometimes verbal, and even physical, abuse towards the women of the wrestling world.
Most male wrestlers have often had their female counterpart, a scantily clad girl with certain fake body parts, huge hair, and way too much makeup. Where many think the turning point is came several years ago, when a pimp character was introduced and his entourage was prostitutes. The girls would often be made to do demeaning acts and many parents were shocked.
This is where responsibility of media came to light. Any show that caters to young viewers has to take some responsibility of what they are showing the kids and teaching them. This is the reason why viewing of professional wrestling was banned in most homes. The changeover to the worst also had many parents wondering as to what initiated this change from violent wrestlers with catchy names and ridiculous outfits, to this degradation.
A second issue in this controversy was the fact that professional wrestling was being shown on TV in the early afternoon. Kids were often home from school while their parents were still working. Parents believed the networks should schedule these programs later. The parents would then have the option of either turning off the television, or at least explaining to their children what was going on.
Regardless of the issues surrounding wrestling, it continued to gain in popularity. Major wrestling events which traveled throughout the US and Canada would fill stadiums to capacity. And major matches were even shown in large movie theatres. New spin off shows were added and even a football league. In the past few years wrestling mania has slowed somewhat but it is still a hit with many kids.
Despite the choice of parents, children would continue to love professional wrestling and would continue imitating their favorite wrestler with suitable merchandise. The issue at hand is that parents need to explain it to their children that none of this is real.
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