Quote:
Originally Posted by Kane Knight
People always try and change terms they believe to be negative.
People are pissed off by the word "fake" because they feel it invalidates their enjoyment. Which is retarded, but so are most people. People have tried to rename comic books, defining them as "graphic novels" (Expanding the term from the more "adult" collection), "sequential art," etc. People are throwing terms around now, looking for ones that will stick with video games, because it sounds childish (like comic books). So now we have interactive media (Though technically, we've had it for years). "Game" implies a childish passtime, it seems. Anime can never ever ever be considered cartoons, because cartoons are for kids. You know, as opposed to Pokémon.
They think it softens the blow, but it doesn't.
Even changing the description from "fake" to "artistic combat" only means the same negative connotations will be applied to the new label. And wrestling will still be looked down on. Most importantly, you sound like a fucking retard when you say "it's not fake, it's...."
|
There's certainly merit to this. However, my only objection to the word fake is the implication that every single aspect of the event is staged/a work.
Tell that to guys like Bob Holly, Droz, etc. who were seriously injured performing in a 'fake' sport.
Fake is accurate but perhaps not the most appropriate word - another poster made an analogy to TV and movies and its certainly scripted in that regard but there is also that stuntman/something could go wrong element to it. I would never call a stuntman's work 'fake.' Also, there's no way in hell I'm calling it "artistic combat".
So in sum imo, words like fixed, scripted, staged are all terms that would probably be appropriate.
I don't really know what the answer is but let's not give it more credit than it deserves, either.