August 22, 2001
I'm Angry About Something
I'm so angry about this. I just saw on CourtTV this thing about how pro wrestling was evil because people were getting injured trying to imitate it. Just because people have been hurt fighting doesn't mean it was because of wrestling! Sometimes, someone gets mad at someone else. They might attack that person because they're angry at them, not because they wanna be like some dude they saw on TV. When a kid gets into a car accident because he was speeding, do people blame professional racing? Do they say he was trying to imitate a NASCAR driver? No, because it is ridiculous. Just as ridiculous as blaming pro wrestling for people fighting.
Also, people claim wrestling doesn't do anything to dissuade children from watching. Right when it starts, and also an hour into the show, a box shows up in the top left corner of the screen that says "TV14." TV-14. There's no way for them to prevent people from imitating them. Most normal-thinking people would look at it and say to themselves "Hey, it would probably be dangerous for me to do that." By this standard, I could start drinking gasoline, and then sue the gas station for not saying to me "Hey you, it's dangerous to drink gasoline."
The people who do harm or kill someone else because of their imitating wrestling are people who shouldn't be watching it in the first place. They are people who take everything WAY too seriously. How can they be prevented from watching wrestling? One word: Parents. Instead of blaming wrestling or music for violence, how about maybe blaming the parents? If a parent doesn't care about their child, and they ignore the child, then when he goes out and kills someone, don't blame wrestling! Blame the negligent parent for a change! Ahhh!
And what about sports? When high school athletes are injured playing sports like baseball, football, hockey, etc., do people blame pro sports? No. Why not? The players are imitating their favorite pro athletes. I know, you're probably saying "Well, they have trainers & permission and such." Well, what about kids who play sports in their damn backyard?? When they get injured, who do they blame? No one! Apparently, there are some interesting standards in backyard gaming. If someone is imitating pro sports, then it's ok. If someone is imitating wrestling, it's obviously wrestling's fault.
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