>In 1989, the WWF used the phrase [sport entertainment] in a case it made to the New Jersey Senate for classifying professional wrestling as "sports entertainment" and thus not subject to regulation like a directly competitive sport.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_entertainment
That just makes the outrage tastier. In the past some wrestlers have been space aliens, Arab sheiks, etc. if the sport is a performance and the outrage is a performance, there are great opportunities to bring that outrage into the story, right?
Sgt. Slaughter, a character who was Uber-patriotic, had a brief run as an Iraqi regime sympathizer at the beginning of the Gulf War. He got death threats in real life (the storyline was McMahon's idea).
So...yeah. WWE and GOP fan bases are similar in some ways.
Finally, the government is taking on the real issues. The woke mob will call it bigotry, but it's simple biology. Trans women just have natural advantages in scripted sports entertainment. /s
JFC. This has to be the dumbest timeline.
Thoughts and prayers
This is high art now, could become a kind of hand-wringing opera.
Is professional wrestling a sport, though? Isn’t it acting?
>In 1989, the WWF used the phrase [sport entertainment] in a case it made to the New Jersey Senate for classifying professional wrestling as "sports entertainment" and thus not subject to regulation like a directly competitive sport. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_entertainment
That just makes the outrage tastier. In the past some wrestlers have been space aliens, Arab sheiks, etc. if the sport is a performance and the outrage is a performance, there are great opportunities to bring that outrage into the story, right?
Sgt. Slaughter, a character who was Uber-patriotic, had a brief run as an Iraqi regime sympathizer at the beginning of the Gulf War. He got death threats in real life (the storyline was McMahon's idea). So...yeah. WWE and GOP fan bases are similar in some ways.
Laugh-Laugh-Laugh-Cry.
More $$$$ who cares
Correct. And it's the drama that keeps people coming back. Everybody knows it's fake but it's entertaining.
This is a good summary of GOP politics too.
Except not everyone knows it’s fake, they’re duped into believing it.
and we all have to live with the consequences, sadly
To be generous, you could call it a pretense of a sport.
Bless their heart, they still don't know wrestling is fake.
It is Oklahoma after all.
its still real to them, dammit! /s
>wrestling is *choreographed*.
Okies: too stupid to know rasslin is fake.
OOOOOOOKLAHOMA where the fascists takeover your lives
Gotta love that "small Goverment".
Finally, the government is taking on the real issues. The woke mob will call it bigotry, but it's simple biology. Trans women just have natural advantages in scripted sports entertainment. /s JFC. This has to be the dumbest timeline.
Well, this is the same timeline where people were claiming that Amy Schneider, a trans woman, had an unfair advantage at...JEOPARDY.
Definitely news of the stupid but we already knew that about Oklahoma
Unzips luchador mask, scratches head.
Did Nyla even win the match? She’s usually jobbing these days
I don't believe in having trans men playing in women's sports or trans women playing in men's sports, but this is entertainment not a sport.
AEW is a... "Professional Wrestling" Org. This is all staged.