Willie Oleson
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Disclaimer: I'm not posting this thread for shock value or to entice distasteful or disrespectful comments.
I guess people can have a "special interest" or fetish for practically anything, and that also includes sports and the people involved with it.
In most cases it's a personal interpretation and therefore only apply to a select few (which could still be hundreds or thousands or millions of people, but the fact that it's impossible to make an estimate kind of supports that very assumption).
But I think it's different when you watch wrestling.
Now, I'm absolutely certain that there's nothing "going on" here but that's not what this topic is about.
Many youtube comments are indeed of the gay content, but even without that it seems virtually impossible to NOT to notice what it looks like.
The straight man won't see it that way, and he certainly won't feel it, but does it really take that much imagination that it could be perceived as male eroticism by (many) other people?
I probably wouldn't have bothered to post this thread if this kind of wrestling was a, say, traditional Swedish sport, but I'd assume that the straight and more conservative Americans would move heaven and earth to shield their unsuspecting audiences from visuals and activities that could result in feelings or interpretations that have nothing to do with the sport itself.
How is it possible that they're so obvlious when it comes to watching this particular sport? Mostly performed by college guys, on top of everything.
Even the hunky swimmer in the tiniest trunks doesn't automatically look in-your-face erotic, but it takes a lot of effort to think absolutely nothing of the suggestive rubbing-bumping-grabbing movements by guys in extremely revealing outfits.
This is not a complaint or rant, they can do whatever they want, I'm only saying that it puzzles me. It just doesn't make any sense at all.
I guess people can have a "special interest" or fetish for practically anything, and that also includes sports and the people involved with it.
In most cases it's a personal interpretation and therefore only apply to a select few (which could still be hundreds or thousands or millions of people, but the fact that it's impossible to make an estimate kind of supports that very assumption).
But I think it's different when you watch wrestling.
Many youtube comments are indeed of the gay content, but even without that it seems virtually impossible to NOT to notice what it looks like.
The straight man won't see it that way, and he certainly won't feel it, but does it really take that much imagination that it could be perceived as male eroticism by (many) other people?
I probably wouldn't have bothered to post this thread if this kind of wrestling was a, say, traditional Swedish sport, but I'd assume that the straight and more conservative Americans would move heaven and earth to shield their unsuspecting audiences from visuals and activities that could result in feelings or interpretations that have nothing to do with the sport itself.
How is it possible that they're so obvlious when it comes to watching this particular sport? Mostly performed by college guys, on top of everything.
Even the hunky swimmer in the tiniest trunks doesn't automatically look in-your-face erotic, but it takes a lot of effort to think absolutely nothing of the suggestive rubbing-bumping-grabbing movements by guys in extremely revealing outfits.
This is not a complaint or rant, they can do whatever they want, I'm only saying that it puzzles me. It just doesn't make any sense at all.