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So I promised something lighter for this week, and we’re going to go right for the jugular with that one. I wanted to get as far away from Chris Benoit and all Chris Benoit-related stuff, so last night, I hosted a viewing of Wrestlemania 3. I invited a professor of mine who has been interested with wrestling since I began talking about it to her, as well as a colleague who watched wrestling in the late 80’s, but hasn’t really watched since. Along with them was one of my roommates, who is not at all a wrestling fan and thinks we’re all freaks for liking it (she comes in around the 10 minute mark). The idea was to have a fairly upbeat discussion about how wrestling is interesting and worth studying, not necessarily that it is horrible and a reason to incarcerate someone. And for this, there’s really nothing more suitable than the WWF in 1987

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"But that’s what they (the mainstream press) are doing. They’re taking the easy answer and that’s characteristic of the mainstream press. And it shouldn’t surprise us that Ann Coulter is attacking Bret Hart for taking steroids and trying to turn this into a villainizing case where she’s the righteous and we’re demonized for enjoying sick steroid abusers. But there’s one thing that connects the mainstream people and the internet community. Absolutely none of us know why this happened. For the mainstream press, the easy answer is to go into attack mode. For us, it’s to defend pro wrestling, and to defend it with an iron grip, and to hide in the crevices of where wrestling is safest. What I find interesting is that nobody is taking a stance that, while benoit did was awful, it doesn’t affect wrestling. What Benoit did was unforgivable, but they still love wrestling. And you should see that opinion and it should be there. But I’ve gone to dozens of wrestling sites now, sites I haven’t seen since the boom period seven years ago that I thought had been shut down. And I went there looking for different opinions besides “wrestling is great.”"

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