Wrestling - Trouble Seems To Be Part Of 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.

The makeover in the world of wrestling happened a few years ago when a pimp character was introduced. He had a huge entourage of prostitutes who are scantily clad with many fake body parts, huge hair, and way too much makeup. Similar is the look of the female counterparts of male wrestlers. To top it all, most women were made to demeaning acts and that had many parents shocked.

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.

Another issue that came up was that wrestling was on television in the early afternoon, when many children were home alone without parent supervision. Parents felt that it should be the responsibility of the television networks to only have controversial shows like wrestling on later in the evening when at the very least parents could either make sure it stays off the TV, or watch it with their kids so they could explain certain aspects of the show.

Regardless of the issues surrounding wrestling, it continued to gain in popularity. Major wrestling events which traveled throughout the US and Canada would fill stadiums to capacity. And major matches were even shown in large movie theatres. New spin off shows were added and even a football league. In the past few years wrestling mania has slowed somewhat but it is still a hit with many kids.

Whether or not we like wrestling it seems that kids will always enjoy it. It has been around for many years and kids love the extra merchandise that is sold, as well as imitating their favorite wrestler. As long as parents can be there to explain that none of this is real, and not to try and act out any wrestling moves, it proves to be fairly harmless.