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I've got to be honest, I don't tell anybody I like wrestling, and I really never intend to. The only people who knew were my immediate family, but they even probably think I've grown out of it, since I haven’t lived at home for a few years, and I never mention it to them.
I know that I don't have a great conception of what most wrestling fans are like, but from the couple of shows I've been to in my life, a good percentage of them seemed pretty tacky and shallow to me, not really the type of people I'd want hang out with. Obviously, there are exceptions to that, as a good percentage of this board seems pretty with it, but the prevailing culture of people who watch wrestling to me seems like it more or less fits the stereotypes. It turns me off big time when characters like "Umaga - the Samoan Savage," or "Jimmy Wang Yang - the racially confused Asian cowboy," or even guys like "Chris Nowinski - the spineless intellectual college snob" debut. When the majority of the crowd seems to enthusiastically react as they're prompted to, it turns me off even further. I've long thought that the world of professional wrestling is an undiscovered goldmine for anthropological research. That, I've recently realized, along with the fact that it's something that I've watched for almost my whole life and simply habitually follow at this point are really the main reasons that I still watch.
That said, I would never judge anybody for watching professional wrestling, as a) that would be pretty hypocritical, and b) because of obvious exceptions to what's probably a plurality, rather than a majority of wrestling fans.
I admit it's rather cowardly and what not to keep my interest a secret, but honestly, it's something that I'd rather watch by myself anyway, and I really don't care enough to be willing to deal with the extreme negative stigma of being a pro wrestling fan.
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