[Professor S]

This is for anyone who has replied to a wrestling topic just to comment on how stupid wrestling is and how its "fake". This is not intended for those who simply dislike wrestling or even hate it, but keep their opiniuon to themselves:

You claim you don't care, yet you care enough to comment about how you don't care.

You get angry at wrestling and the fact that its popular, but what did wrestling ever do to you?

For some reason bashing professional wrestling has become a pasttime in its own right. From Bob Costas, to ESPN, to the general media, to some members in this forum bashing professional wrestling is evidently as fun as beating a sack of monkeys.

But why? Why is there such a massive disdain for something that is inherently silly and tongue in cheek? I don't see anybody screaming about clowns and how thats not a real car they're all piling out of after all. The PTC isn't going after Shrek and its obvious masturbation references (watch the scene where the king or whatever is having the mirror replay video of the princess over and over... then call me nuts for saying it).

So why all the hostility guys? Here are my theories:

1) Inferiority complexes. Its the adult equivalent of being a bully in school. You feel comfortable making fun of wrestling and its fans because you feel the majority of people make fun of and don't like wrestling. This makes you feel better about yourselves and more a part of the "group" because you have rationalized that wrestling and its fans are "beneath" you.

2) Emotional Scarring. You were once a wrestling fan when you were a kid, but you realized it was "fake" and felt betrayed. This is the equivalent of realizing that Santa Claus isn't real. The reason why you hate wrestling and not Santa now is because wrestling actually exists, but it is not what you thought it was. You have still not gotten over this and every time you say you hate wrestling and someone asks you why, you answer exasperated: "Because its fake!!"

Wrestling never claimed to be legitamate... EVER. The business protected itself well and never admitted to not being "fake". Its called "kayfabe"; wrestling's "don't ask-don't tell" policy.

So which is it guys? Are you a conformist coward or emotionally unstable? If you are the latter I have a picture of the Easter Bunny you can throw darts at.

If you are going to make a comment, make it something interesting. Explain your disdain for the business beyond a simplistic "its fake". But if your just commenting for the sake of bashing something you claim not to care about in the first place, please keep yourt opinions to yourselves and save us the bother of having to read them. After all, you DON'T CARE ANYWAY.

Thank you

*steps off soapbox*