My Tirade

Sub Title: I Can't Be Silent Anymore.


My husband likes wrestling. Last night I was forced to listen to something that has gone too far. And yes, I had to listen. This house is small and there is nowhere I can go where I can't hear the angry shouting voices. I wear earplugs to bed in an effort to get some sleep. They block out street and most noises, but they don't work well on voices.

Bear has always liked his wrestling. So when he isn't working the evenings when it's on, he gets to see it. It use to just be an annoyance I was willing to compromise over. But for several years now, each event and each wrestling federation has been trying to top it's previous show.

It has gone too far. We've been disagreeing more and more. He sees it as "not real" and "just entertainment." So do millions of others apparently. But last nights torture made me snap. It wasn't even something that happened in the ring. (Which is bad enough.) This was one of those scenes where we are supposedly peeking in on what is going on in back. One of the old time stars was working on a young team mate. Teaching him "to be a man." "Toughening him up." With a lot of shouting, he was pushing his mates head under water and holding him. Then barely letting him catch a breath before shoving his head down again. Bad enough. But it didn't end there. Next he used metal clamps on the younger mans nipples, body still wet from the dunking, and shocked him. (But, it's OK because it's not real?)

Is that entertainment? Is that a good lesson for our young people? It's not a movie where the good side is out to stop that kind of thing because it's wrong. No this was suppose to be OK. Do impressionable children need to hear that it's OK to do that to anyone? (Let alone your partner?) Do impressionable children need to hear they need to take this kind of treatment to "become a man?" "To toughen up?" Even beyond lessons for our young generation, I shudder in wonder that adults can choose this kind of "make believe entertainment."

It's causing a serious rift with my partner. This sport (?) is escalating faster and faster in it's hope to top the previous entertainment. This morning my hubby tried again to convince me it's just a show. It's not real. Somehow, for me anyway, that makes it worse. The mindset. I can't stop trembling. ( I've cried too.) What I saw and heard last night has gone too far.

Last night was just one more step in this thing they call sport. They were advertising their next Big Event. A slew of wrestlers in a steel cage, that once everyone was locked in, WEAPONS would drop from above for them to use on each other.

I rest my case. Where's Law Enforcement?





Am I really being unreasonable?