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Originally Posted by theginger45
Just watched the entire PPV again. That paragraph at the end of Best and Worst summed it up. I'm incredibly proud to be a wrestling fan right now.
Having said that, something weird happened tonight. I live with work colleagues (work for a charity, we have to live together) and me and a buddy were watching the PPV tonight in the living room. Hungarian girl who works/lives with us asks why we're not watching something that everyone wants to watch rather than just us - we reply that no-one was using the screen anyway and go ahead watching the PPV.
Our boss, a girl from Romania, had never watched wrestling before but she was there for the first match and didn't seem to mind it (was impressed by the athleticism, thought some of the guys were hot, whatever, etc), but after like 20mins of sitting there the other girl goes "Guys, you are stupid, this is totally stupid. I believe that a person can just have their health and be happy, and..." and then pretty much storms out and doesn't come back down.
Can anyone offer any insight into how someone might be so offended by wrestling?!? I was totally stumped. It's obvious she's a little judgemental and humourless but I was honestly just sitting there for like 10 minutes afterwards trying to work out how someone could react so negatively. WWE airs on TV in Hungary so it's not like it's culturally incompatible or something. :S
Not sure really, but maybe something to do with the violence aspect? I dunno, seems pretty dumb, but it wouldn't be the first time a chick is offended by wrestling.
The other good one is "you know it's fake right?". It's like they can accept most other TV shows are scripted and go on about Gossip Girl or some other horrible show and that's alright, but when it comes to wrestling it is stupid because "it's fake". Zero logic, but I hear it all the time.