Everyone Either Loves Or Hates Professional Wrestling

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?

Professional wrestling basically means that it's fake. No one really entertains ideas that the wrestling we see on national television is real anymore. The wrestlers are simply actors and what they do isn't difficult. There is an element of reality in it since the possibility of someone getting hurt is always there.

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.

Over the years the male wrestlers have had female companions with them. They are generally women wearing few clothes, showing enhanced body parts, big hair, and too many layers of makeup. A few years ago a pimp-like character entered the ring with a group of female prostitutes. Sometimes these women would perform disparaging acts, shocking many parents.

This is where responsibility of media came to light. Any show that caters to young viewers has to take some responsibility of what they are showing the kids and teaching them. This is the reason why viewing of professional wrestling was banned in most homes. The changeover to the worst also had many parents wondering as to what initiated this change from violent wrestlers with catchy names and ridiculous outfits, to this degradation.

One more major issue that came up for discussion was that wrestling was being cast on television in the early afternoon - when many children were home alone without parent guidance or supervision. It was opined that television networks need to be responsible and have such controversial shows only when parents could either supervise what their children were viewing, just shut it off or watch it with their kids so they could explain certain objectionable aspect of the show without biasing the thought process of their children.

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.

Apparently it doesn't matter what adults think of wrestling, it seems obvious that kids will continue to like it. It's been with us for a long time now, and the kids love the wrestling paraphernalia that comes with it. They also like to act like their favorite wrestler. If parents are available to tell there children that it's all fake, and not to try any of the moves, it's probably pretty harmless.

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