Everyone Either Loves Or Hates Professional Wrestling - By: Burt Dymond, Posted on: 2007-02-13

Professional wrestling is a very popular phenomenon with children of all ages. However, in recent years parents are finding that certain wrestling is becoming offensive and disturbing. Many have even banned their children from watching professional wrestling on television. Is all the fuss justified, or is professional wrestling really just a soap opera for boys?

There will practically be no one who entertains the idea that the wrestling that we see on national television is real. The mere word Professional wrestling annotates that it is fake. We feel that these wrestlers are very good actors and what they do is not too difficult. However, the fact is that there always is a great possibility of someone getting hurt in the sport of professional wrestling.

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.

The makeover in the world of wrestling happened a few years ago when a pimp character was introduced. He had a huge entourage of prostitutes who are scantily clad with many fake body parts, huge hair, and way too much makeup. Similar is the look of the female counterparts of male wrestlers. To top it all, most women were made to demeaning acts and that had many parents shocked.

Even if the children had no idea what was really being portrayed, many adults believed that shows with children in the audience should take more responsibility for the content. Before long wrestling was banned in a lot of homes. Parents have been wondering why the already violent sport featuring people with wild names, changed into something even worse. They decided that their children shouldn't be exposed to this behavior.

Another issue that came up was that wrestling was on television in the early afternoon, when many children were home alone without parent supervision. Parents felt that it should be the responsibility of the television networks to only have controversial shows like wrestling on later in the evening when at the very least parents could either make sure it stays off the TV, or watch it with their kids so they could explain certain aspects of the show.

Even with these issues, wrestling continued to become ever more popular. When major wrestling matches toured the US and Canada, the stadiums would be packed with spectators. Some of these big matches were projected on the big screen in movie theaters. Networks added spin offs and a football league. Wrestling has lost some of its pull recently, but a lot of kids still love to watch it.

Whether or not we like wrestling it seems that kids will always enjoy it. It has been around for many years and kids love the extra merchandise that is sold, as well as imitating their favorite wrestler. As long as parents can be there to explain that none of this is real, and not to try and act out any wrestling moves, it proves to be fairly harmless.

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