• hansolo@lemmy.today
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    1 day ago

    I always thought of it like porn.

    There’s minimal plot to explain why the guy in a leather banana hammock is mad at the guy in a spandex banana hammock and vest. If you’ve never been to a ballet, other than the ring, the set, and not singing the interludes, very little is different.

    I honestly love the athleticism. Though, I prefer watching the ladies jump around. Their outfits are more interesting, anyway.

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      1 day ago

      This is exactly how I tend to think about it. It’s like the plot in fighting games. It’s just used to ferry the audience from one fight to the next. The actual pretext doesn’t really matter that much, because that’s not why the audience is there. The amount of sheer athleticism that gets displayed on a weekly basis is honestly astounding.

      Sure, pro wrestling is fake. But there is no way to fake a hit like this. The fact that those men didn’t leave on stretchers puts them on par with stuntmen.

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        20 hours ago

        I think it takes asking the question of “what is faddle and what’s not?” Jumping off the top of the ropes onto a folding table isn’t fake. The reasons why, sure.