Non productive grumbling
Jul. 19th, 2004 04:19 pmThis is one of those bitch sessions that isn't meant to solve anything or even really express much beside non productive grumbling.
Pre-emptive grumbling, I guess. So it doesn't fester.
Read M. Hardy's latest update a couple of days ago and gave it a big eyeroll. Gosh, yes Matt! It would be just keen if the internet was a big ball of positivity... especially when it concerns itself with your microscopic dot of the universe.
Normally, all Matt's little lecture would have inspired from me is a raspberry and maybe a little snark. But his lecture came on the heels of two other lectures and I guess, I'm sorta getting pissy about it.
A month or so ago, Bradshaw got pissy on the fans--apparently wrestling fans are homosexuals who play checkers with their mothers. Ok. Whatever.
And before that, Samoa Joe, ROH champ, when talking about Rob Feinstein mentioned that Feinstein avoided getting buddy-buddy with the wrestlers because he didn't want to look like a "dork or a mark"
The Samoa Joe thing ticked me off at first-- why is being a wrestling fan a bad thing? Are indy wrestlers that fucking cool that you have to be careful not to offend their privacy or dare to know their business. Like shouldn't you be more concern about making fans rahter than being too above them...
But anyways, I wasn't going to get too upset over Rob Feinstein. Then along came Bradshw's little vent.
Now, in my heart and brain, I know they're bitching about the kneejerk smarks and the idiots who go from one end of the spectrum to the other in liking or hating something. And I also know wrestlers are as ignorant to the business of being a fan as we are to the business of being a wrestler... but at the same time: Go pound sand.
It's not my fault I don't adore everything that gets put on a wrestling program. It's not my fault I enjoy some wrestlers more than others. It's not my fault pregnancy angles suck.
I try to be understanding of their povs. And I do understand how rough on the ego many of things that get said are. However, other professional athletes get their performances rated on the gd nightly news. No one my take my internet rambling seriously, but tons of people buy what ESPN has to say about Shaq or A-Rod or Bertuzzi. The gd Equirer probably has a sales 1000 times that of the Pro-wrestling Torch. How many people care that Jeff Hardy is a crackhead? How many people care that MaryKate Olsen is a cokehead?
Wrestlers live in a bubble, and it's not the fans' fault that not everyone thinks it's as shiny as they do.
Pre-emptive grumbling, I guess. So it doesn't fester.
Read M. Hardy's latest update a couple of days ago and gave it a big eyeroll. Gosh, yes Matt! It would be just keen if the internet was a big ball of positivity... especially when it concerns itself with your microscopic dot of the universe.
Normally, all Matt's little lecture would have inspired from me is a raspberry and maybe a little snark. But his lecture came on the heels of two other lectures and I guess, I'm sorta getting pissy about it.
A month or so ago, Bradshaw got pissy on the fans--apparently wrestling fans are homosexuals who play checkers with their mothers. Ok. Whatever.
And before that, Samoa Joe, ROH champ, when talking about Rob Feinstein mentioned that Feinstein avoided getting buddy-buddy with the wrestlers because he didn't want to look like a "dork or a mark"
The Samoa Joe thing ticked me off at first-- why is being a wrestling fan a bad thing? Are indy wrestlers that fucking cool that you have to be careful not to offend their privacy or dare to know their business. Like shouldn't you be more concern about making fans rahter than being too above them...
But anyways, I wasn't going to get too upset over Rob Feinstein. Then along came Bradshw's little vent.
Now, in my heart and brain, I know they're bitching about the kneejerk smarks and the idiots who go from one end of the spectrum to the other in liking or hating something. And I also know wrestlers are as ignorant to the business of being a fan as we are to the business of being a wrestler... but at the same time: Go pound sand.
It's not my fault I don't adore everything that gets put on a wrestling program. It's not my fault I enjoy some wrestlers more than others. It's not my fault pregnancy angles suck.
I try to be understanding of their povs. And I do understand how rough on the ego many of things that get said are. However, other professional athletes get their performances rated on the gd nightly news. No one my take my internet rambling seriously, but tons of people buy what ESPN has to say about Shaq or A-Rod or Bertuzzi. The gd Equirer probably has a sales 1000 times that of the Pro-wrestling Torch. How many people care that Jeff Hardy is a crackhead? How many people care that MaryKate Olsen is a cokehead?
Wrestlers live in a bubble, and it's not the fans' fault that not everyone thinks it's as shiny as they do.