What does pro wrestling teach children?

[saint808]

hey smalls how is wrestling any worse or less appealing than piss christ?

 

[frorider6]

raising some good points here... personally i think it is the responsibility of the TV show to raise my child. I'm sick of doing it perosnally... yes that was sarcasm and yes this strikes a nerve... how is wrestling any worse than mtv?

Well, it's just something I saw last night and got me wondering.

And I agree. I want TV to raise my damn kids when I have them too.

 

[saint808]

How much influence do you think daddy has when he's had his 5th or 6th beer of the night, Austin starts chugging and spraying Bud, and good ole dad tells his son that it's not cool to drink?

way to steretype wrestling viewers

 

[saint808]

when i sit in my trailer, eating my mac and cheese and fishsticks and am drinking my natural light... i like a little violence, ok?

 

[frorider6]

way to steretype wrestling viewers

Hey, we do what we can to make a point, right?

Really though, I believe this also applies to any parent taking a child to ANY sporting event. I'm not saying alcohol should be banned from events. Simply that parents shouldn't drink while supervising a child.

As far as the WWF, I really don't have a problem with it. I just wanted a good discussion that didn't center around karma.

 

[TheProject]

what exactly is the appeal of wrestling though? it's terribly fake, so it's not the "realism" of it...

It's a soap opera for men, really. Sex, violence, and drama based on both.

Grown men swaggering around, mouthing off to their boss, flipping people off in public, all the while spouting off clever catch phrases. It's like an adolescent fantasy given form.

My .02...

 

[saint808]

see i watched wrestling way back... when it was not cool to do so, then it became cool to watch it and it changed it for the worse... now we have all these censorship people stereotyping the viewers, when the responsibility should be that of the parents... i mean there is a v chip right? They are evern trying to make it easier for lousy parents. My parents let me watch it. In person I am about as non violent as you can get.

 

[TheProject]

How much influence do you think daddy has when he's had his 5th or 6th beer of the night, Austin starts chugging and spraying Bud, and good ole dad tells his son that it's not cool to drink?

Again, that parent is not being a good role model for his child. What's worse, that he's drunk in front of this kid or that he took him to wrestling? I'd rather a sober father take his son to a WWF show, and explain to him the difference between reality and fiction.

 

[the nature boy]

Kids learn nothing from wrestling. That's why they shouldn't watch it. Parents need to friggin take some interest in what their kids are watching.

 

[danielson]

Hmmm sounds like cartoons.

unfortunately yes

i'm not even sure they gave warnings to the oublic about unsuitability of wrestling for kids when they showed it here