Stereotypes In Professional Wrestling

To people high school and college wrestlers leave a negative notation in their mind which might be because they don’t fully understand us. A misconception is a view or opinion that is completely incorrect and a stereotype is an image that is for the most part painted wrong but has some truth to it. The stereotype that wrestlers are aggressive is a view that people may conceive to be true about all wrestlers and this is not the case. Another would be that wrestlers are rude and carry themselves with no manners. People also seem to believe us wrestler enjoy to engage in violent acts. In all of these examples laid out every single one of them are viewed through the wrong lens and for the most part wrong. These stereotypes are here because of the sport they are in which can involve slamming others onto the mat and forcing them to their back, so

However, Women play an interesting part in professional wrestling, mostly because wrestling matches are often predicated by a fabricated story in which women usually remain the center of discourse, but only in relation to men. WWE created a division to classify women wrestlers as the WWE Divas. WWE Divas participate in wrestling matches, but are also expected to perform in background scenarios to enhance the conflict between two male wrestlers. Simultaneously, WWE Divas are used to confirm the heterosexuality of male wrestlers by participating in false love stories that turn into wrestling matches between two men fighting for their love.

“Stereotypes are generalizations or assumptions that people make about the characterization of all members of a group, based on an image about what people in that group are like” (Burgess). People use stereotypes everyday. It is our human nature. Everyone is labeled under at least one stereotype, if not more. Some people agree with their stereotypes while others are offended by them. Often we don’t give people a chance at something just because of stereotypes we have heard about them. Many people stereotype athletes. People think that athletes are self-centered, unintelligent, bullies, and drink under age. I know that the stereotypes about athletes are not true for me.

Basketball, football, and hockey are considered the most popular sports in America as of today. However, sports in the early 1950s were not as popular as they are now. According to “An Exercise in Subtleties and the Transmission of Racism: An Analysis of Sports Illustrated Covers” by Eric Primm, Summer DuBois, and Robert M. Regoli, they stated that American love their sport and that “each year they would spend billions of dollars on sports-related items and activities.” The media help promote the popularity of the sports in America. Consequently, sports media “plays a key role in perpetuating the types of racial stereotypes about minority athletes in sports” (Ismond, 115). The thesis of this writing project is with some racial stereotype reinforcement

People are judged for their appearance all over the world, every day. People with brown, ragged clothes are assumed to be less intelligent, or homeless. People with long hair are assumed to be female. There are many stereotypes that limit the social actions of many people, and it is not just in real life. Rodman Philbrick shows that these stereotypes are not always true in the book “Freak The Mighty” in the form of Maxwell Cane, Kevin, Loretta, and Iggy Lee. All of those characters are misjudged by others, and in some cases, even by themselves. The message that your appearance does not determine who you are is very important, and applies to everyone everywhere.

The sports media in America has a lot of power. How the media portrays athletes and how it is perceived can be polarizing. Sports media depicts athletes based on race. It is becoming a daily occurrence for sports media to portray Caucasians is a positive light and African American in a more negative light. When an African American commits a crime it reinforces the negative stereotype and makes national sports television. But, when a Caucasian athlete commits the same crime the information is difficult to find on a local newspaper. The media’s portrayal can alter the fan’s experience. Which is the case for two current active NFL players. In 2011, USA Today reported Ben Roethlisberger the quarterback of the Pittsburg Steelers was accused of rape

Professional wrestling that plays on the Marxist view of the bourgeoisie versus the proletariat. Furthermore, Jenkins proposes that wrestling allows to play out a narrative in which professional wrestling will overcome the upper class, the bourgeoisie. Professional wrestling is a way that men can express their emotions, opposing to common philosophies that men should keep their feelings intact. (Jenkins, 35) Jenkins states that WWF appeals

“You can’t really divorce women’s struggles in the world from women’s in the cinema. As long as there’s hierarchy it means that women are somehow secondary or second class or less than” (Sally Potter). While moving pictures, “movies,” have existed since the late 19th century, it wasn’t until the early 1900s that narrative films grew into such a significant part of popular culture. The occupation of screenwriting involves developing and creating scripts for movies and television shows. Since the birth of the industry—as far back as silent movies—women have played roles in filmmaking, whether it be directing, producing, or writing. While female screenwriters in Hollywood do not arrive in large numbers, women are more than capable of meeting

Today we face a pandemic tearing the very fabric our country stands for. As some of you may know, some famous sports athletes are refusing to stand for the national anthem. Some of you may not know the reason but I’m here to tell you that the reason of this protest has ALWAYS been about race. Period. Colin Kapernick, former Quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, is best known not for his actions on the field, but what he has done on the side lines. During the national anthem he refused to stand and instead took a knee. This inevitably caused a media uproar, some people calling him unpatriotic and disrespectful. He shook the nation to its core when asked for his motives, he said in an after school press conference “I am not going to stand up

The numbers are there. The passion and following are there, but the lack of physical exertion is going to be a large hangup for people. Esports is fighting the same the same stereotypes that gaming in general does, but esports is making a strong argument to actually be considered among the “real” sports. It seems only to be a matter of time before esports gets the recognition it desires and frankly deserves. The chances of a game appearing on ESPN recap is slim to none, but gaming in itself has always been a niche system. A system that is growing at an alarmingly rapid pace.

In the article by Forbes, writer Alfred Konuwa discusses the newest sensation in WWE that is women’s wrestling. However, with a title like “WWE’s Future is Gender-Neutral and Filled with Tears,” it is no surprise that the article itself is inherently incredibly sexist. Throughout the entire article it is obvious that Konuwa shows distaste for women in wrestling and feels that they are changing the industry for the worst. The basis of the article is to discuss how women wrestlers cry after their competitions, especially after their wins, and Konuwa makes sure to directly bash them for doing so. It is incredibly clear that Konuwa is discussing the crying in wrestling in a way to make it come off as though women are weak and emotional, and he

The media constructed the wrestlers as “clowns” in order to provide entertainment: men by extending their “macho” athlete role to contexts outside the wrestling environment, and women by framing and holding them up for ridicule inside the sport context. It goes without saying that the media representations of wrestlers as media clowns strongly contradicted their self-perceptions as athletes, more so for females than males. Referring back to Miss Representation women were viewed as sex object, uneducated and underestimated for their value with mocking images of media, while being violated on the cover of magazines.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship also known as the UFC is known to be a bloody and brutal sport as many people would call it in society. Everyone thinks that UFC fighters only train each day and they are dumb thus making them look like they only want to fight. Many people in society don't really know the truth of UFC fighters or the sport. That's when misconceptions and stereotypes come in and give fake information about that group of people or society . They are two different problems in society and they affect many groups or people.

How is gender and gender roles socially constructed? Soulliere states that gender is a cultural creation that is frequently developed by and represented through popular cultural media such as advertisements, music, sports, and entertainment television (Soulliere 2006). The article “Wrestling with Masculinity: Messages about Manhood in the WWE” by Danielle M. Soulliere (2006), examines messages about manhood revealed by televised professional wrestling (Soulliere 1). Messages concerning masculinity and manhood were investigated and compared to the cultural version of masculinity (Soulliere 2006). Soulliere’s research proves that the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) depicts messages, which supports the dominant hegemonic form of masculinity (Soulliere 2006). To further grasp and understand Soulliere’s hypothesis, we must first examine her research methods and outcomes.

The year 2016 saw the rebirth of women’s wrestling in the WWE. The WWE Divas Championship was cast aside in favor of the WWE Women’s Championship, and although this new championship doesn’t share the same (mostly) outstanding lineage as the one that preceded it, it marked an important change in the way that women were presented by the WWE. The WWE Divas needed to go; they were treated badly by the WWE creative teams, the female demographic was growing, and NXT was proving to the world that the women could be as good as, or even better than, the men. However, WWE couldn’t just delete the division; some care was going to have to be taken to clean up the mess they had made.