DragulaRULEZ posted...
I don't know, the NFL is pretty popular.
Sure, but not with me. My criticism was mostly with the insinuation that kids and adolescents would have a shitty childhood for not liking a specific person that was a part of yours. Not saying you're not allowed to enjoy it, just that we're not all beholden to what you value and you're not beholden to us either.
My childhood was amazing without any sort of sports or announcer figures being a part of it, the lack of their presence was also not why my teenage and adult years were so shitty.
Southernfatman posted...
Never got this criticism. It could apply to almost all combat sports and lots of other sports in general. It has an air of homophobia too.
It was mostly tongue-in-cheek. However, the majority of "professional" wrestling is sweaty/oily muscular dudes wearing more often than not nothing but underwear and boots trying to dominate the other by being on top of them and slamming their 3/4th naked bodies into each other. After gay sex/porn it's like the most homoerotic thing I can think of. And then JoJo's Bizarre Adventure came along, which I do thoroughly enjoy, which is why this is more of a musing about what is easily the most societally acceptable form of publicly viewed homoeroticism and not condemnation.
Feel free to enjoy whatever you want, the crux of my point wasn't even about wrestling, however about someone taking issue with a very particular announcer/personality not being a part of a child's life.
Like, sure, it sucks that some people grew up without watching Fred Rogers as well, especially since that was one of the best human beings people can model themselves around, ESPECIALLY for the time he became popularized in, however that doesn't mean Gen Z (of which I'm not, just using them as an example) who've never heard of him or Bob Ross had a shitty childhood.
DragulaRULEZ posted...
The Olympics were all nude and the Romans had to spoil it.
This is true, so in terms of gayness it goes 1) Gay sex/porn 2) Original Olympics 3) Professional Wrestling 4) REAL Wrastling (yes this is a South Park reference) and 5) JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, of which I am open to debate for placing amongst 3-5th.