Wrestling is fake and gay. |
Wrestling is fake in the same sense that theater is fake, but it's still a great art-form and some people clearly enjoy it. The skill necessary to put on a scripted performance like that is definitely real.
People who think admiration of male athleticism and physical competition is gay have a problem forming a rational and healthy psychological boundary between what does or does not constitute homo-erotic stimulation, and that is a probable sign of latent homosexual tendencies in the subject himself. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Motocross is exciting, individual based, and not fake. |
I never spent as much as a minute watching "motocross", but I can confidently predict that it would not stimulate me to lift weights while watching it. Wrestling appeals to the most basic masculine instinct of physical competition, something that all animals do for social status and play.
Every male in the audience can identify with a wrestler as a basic psychological prototype, no matter how suppressed it may be in any individual. I can also predict certain "plot twists" in pro wrestling and put myself in the writer / producer's shoes as well. I even like to ponder the role that the announcers, cameramen, equipment engineers, and all other participants play in creating this theatrical illusion. Etc. But having a crude transportation device vibrating underneath your butt is purely an acquired taste, it appeals neither to my inner child nor to my higher intellect.
[...] I think bowling is kinda boring. |
This x1000!
Libertarians / capitalists always seek to maximize value, to matter if it's material, psychological, or any other kind. Bowling is meh... neither athletically beneficial nor exciting in any other way that I can imagine. It's a kind of pointless hobby that communist Culture Ministers always like to promote, to keep the public occupied and distracted, but aimed at people who can't imagine accomplishing anything else with a ball except waiting your turn and then rolling it.
I'd say golf is fairly individualistic. I vote Golf. |
I passionately hate golf, as I do $10,000-a-tiny-bottle perfume or other pointless luxury. I recognize a person's right to play golf if he so chooses, of course, but I just can't get over how freaking
inefficient it is, and how could it even be called a sport if someone else carries your clubs or you ride in a golf-cart from hole to hole! I'll have more respect for a person who uses all that land that a golf course requires to plant a
food forest and hike through it with a backpack instead.
how about Paintball or Target shooting |
Yeah, I'm big on that in principle (see also: the "
Tax Resistance Olympics" thread), but the word "sport" typically means an athletic event that people also enjoy watching. I think of target shooting as more of a part of your workout routine. Watching even the best shooter hit his targets is like watching a boxer beat the shit out of a punching bag. Paintball is more of an experience, like a video game, not something you'd want to just watch.
Plus it's more of a right-wing survivalist aesthetic, not specifically libertarian in its motivations. Some might even argue that the best libertarian would swear off from ever touching a gun - for "non-violent civil disobedience" reasons, PR reasons, as well as because being a great libertarian means using your mind, which creates tremendous economic value, while you can always hire people to carry guns and catch bullets for you for relatively cheap.