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[-] Bahnd@lemmy.world 46 points 11 months ago

WWE is just anime for rednecks

I will be taking no further questions.

[-] stevieLipschitz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 11 months ago

I've been saying "drag for straights" for years. And I love it.

[-] Hyperreality@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

A lot of that stuff is genuinely heterosexual drag though.

I mean, I know drag queens spend a lot of clothes, but I doubt they spend as much as the average insecure manchild does on his truck and edgy bumper stickers and/or t-shirts. Some of these losers are so insecure they don't eat vegetables or wash their own ass.

Honestly makes me ashamed to be straight sometimes.

[-] squirmy_wormy@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Anime? I'd call them soap operas instead.

[-] FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

I think it would change between the two depending if the announcer or wrestler shouts the name of their move to make it more powerful

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

What if you put the audio of WWE over soap operas

[-] Ilflish@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Depends on the Wrestling Show. Lots of styles across different promotions. You don't really get the "man raised from dead" or "custody of child" shenanigans much any more. Closest you get are cults. Definitely feels a bit more like Sports anime nowadays. Or just general dramas.

Probably still the best analogy as it's a guilty pleasure for most who don't want to explain it as a mix of gymnastics, dance and storytelling. Maybe "Manly Ballet" is a better equivalent (albeit a bit non-progressive, I just can't think of a better term but hopefully the analogy comes across)

[-] BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

I think you underestimate how many liberals love wrestling

But they know wrestling is Rigged

[-] Addition@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

There's two types of people that watch WWE/AEW wrestling.

  1. Actual morons who think it's real.
  2. People who know it's not real but love the drama and stupidity.

They're hyper-masculine soap operas and kinda fun to watch, ngl.

[-] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

There's two types of people that watch WWE/AEW wrestling.

  1. Actual morons who think it's real.

Don't work yourself into a shoot

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

I wouldn't really call this "hyper masculine", unless mega gay is considered hyper masculine.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 0 points 10 months ago

Obviously being mega gay is hypermasculine, you can't possibly get any manlier.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

What's more manly than smelling another dude's asshole?

[-] Aggravationstation@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Exactly. Men having sex with women is gay as hell.

[-] DrPop@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

If the NFL was rigged they would be sued up down and out the ass by the sports betting companies. Don't these fools understand how self regulated supports are thanks to that?

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Could you imagine how much more talented players would have to be if the NFL was scripted? I could just imagine last weekend a script writer going, "Ok, Purdy you're going to throw an absolute bomb and I need you to hit the defender square in the facemask. Then Aiyuk, you're going to dive and catch the rebound off your fingertips."

The coordination required to do that on demand would be off the charts insane.

With that being said, the Chiefs sure do get some bullshit calls going their way, like in last year's Super Bowl especially. But I think that's less of an example of the NFL being rigged and more like sometimes refs unconsciously play favorites.

[-] AnonTwo@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

I mean, just cause you want WWE's scripts doesn't mean you want actual sports to have those scripts too.

I thought the XFL made that clear.

(But yes the super bowl stuff is silly)

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Oh man, that looks like a landing that would suck

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