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Originally Posted by Burninator
I often wonder that too. How many times a month does this exact same story get played on the news? A bunch. Of course none of those will get the same national air time as this one will. But because we have seen someone on tv/movies/etc it almost seems to hit closer to home for some. While I feel sympathy for everyone involved in this terrible situation, it is only the same sympathy I can offer to other complete strangers in the same situation. If this same thing happened to someone not known in the mainstream, everyone would be piling on top them and I don't think we would have anyone saying we should know the person before we pass judgement.
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Feel free to pass judgement on this murder-suicide situation in Toronto last night . . . . three dead.
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/229465
The aggrandizement of professional wrestlers is bizarre to me . . . .
Back in 1980, I actually reviewed one professional presentation passing through a small town, describing both the good (one guy having a big, bloody scrape across his forehead from a knife butt end, indicating genuine violence) to the bad (an obvious staged presentation to let the good guy win) to the humourous (a 15 year-old punk in the front row making an ass of himself while waving a whisky bottle had one of the wrestlers mysteriously land on top of him, smashing the bottle, the kid and the chair he was sitting on).
I was pretty surprised and filled with not a little trepidation (okay, my pants were filled) when a bunch of these guys stopped in a few days later for a little chat . . . . . turns out they wanted to shake my hand and were not at all offended that I had essentially characterized them as entertainers rather than athletes. Hit it dead on they said.
That's why I'm sitting in the middle of this thread wondering why you guys elevate these people to hero status when the outcome is generally pre-determined.
The tragedy part of this I can easily understand. The rest? Nope. And I was a fan of Stampede Wrestling before colour tv was invented.
And that's all I've got to say about that.
Cowperson