Thread 18766171

>>18766171 (OP)
Ok, by that logic, wouldn't all performance be drag then?

>>18766181
"We're all born naked and the rest is drag" - Lou Thesz

>drag for straight guys
so... clothes

>>18766190
dipshit

>>18766181

People like this can't help but see everything as sex and attraction. These are the same faggots that say men and women can't be friends. Everything is sex and gay to them.

>>18766183
That's a George Hackenschmidt quote, you moron.

>>18766195
>These are the same faggots that say men and women can't be friends.
Self-report, found the queer

>>18766171 (OP)
>wrestling is um like totes drag
God these people are insufferable. Like the people who'll watch a random movie and think the subtext is about being le trans.

>>18766171 (OP)
Explains the behavior of people like Harley Race who were involved in both scenes

>>18766171 (OP)
They’re correct in that they both share unique characteristics that other live performances don’t

>>18766201
>>18766195
>men and women can't be friends
I think they can, but only if there is zero physical attraction mutually

>>18766210
memes aside, there are rumors that Gorgeous George was inspired by early drag not Harley race

>As we saw in the last chapter, romantic relationships between the men and women of carnival troupes was extremely common. But, more surprisingly, there was also ample space for same-sex desire in the carnival, even if it existed mostly outside the view of paying patrons. Among women, it was primarily found in “back of house” workers, the group of younger runaway girls and older, carnie lifers who provided domestic duties like cooking and cleaning to the group. Among men, however, same-sex relationships were quietly located in more outward-facing figures, particularly the hypermasculine, visually specular performers who proved to be among the most popular attractions in the entire carnival. Indeed, in many troupes, there was something of a “queer fraternity” that developed between the “strongmen” — towering giants who awed spectators with feats of physical prowess — and the “wrestlers” — brawlers and technical athletes who engaged in choreographed combat with each other, but who would sometimes challenge audience members to real fights. To prevent the con from being exposed, the wrestlers had to be particularly secretive, traveling in an insular clique that was incredibly hostile to outsiders — and that certainly had no room for female interlopers. By necessity, then, wrestling crews were male and male-only, and over time the grueling travel and physical toll of the matches themselves led the men to seek comfort and pleasure in the only place they could find it: each other. Of course, the rampant homoeroticism of wrestling’s carnival roots endures in professional wrestling today, as the half sport-half performance sideshow has long been the home to gay men cloaking their tender inner desires in the guise of a outwardly rugged “tough guy.”

— from Diana Hamilton’s new book, “Under the Tent: The American Carnival Tradition” (2025), p. 205.

>>18766171 (OP)
AEW in a nutshell.

>>18766181
Are they who i think they are?

Wrestling is
>drag
>redneck anime
>theater-in-the-round
>FOR EVERYBODY

>>18766201

I'm friends with a lot of women that I have no interest in. I know this is revolutionary concept, but I don't need to fuck every single girl, I can choose.

>>18766218

Or when the friendship is never worth the risk of losing over forcing a romance that doesn't naturally occur.

>>18766230
>“Under the Tent: The American Carnival Tradition” (2025)

>>18766171 (OP)
Typical edrone

>>18766249
It’s not out yet, an anon here is a proofreader for a publishing house

>>18766249
>AI still sucks at searching in 2025

>>18766262
post book cover then

>>18766276
do you think some anon is skitzo enough to write all that?

>>18766282
Yes, yes I do.

>>18766194
LMAOOOOO shut the fuck up

drag and wrestling are actually way closer than people would like to admit. especially vince style wrestling.

>different kind of queens like stunt queens, beauty queens, comedy queens etc
>different kind of wrestlers like workrate wrestlers, body guys, comedy wrestlers etc

>both are all about the live performance and doing crowd work
>both are about creating personas and embodying them while returning to normal outside of the show

>vince and rupaul have the exact same humor

>the current state of both is a real the marks are in the ring moment, lots of young drag queens grew up as drag race marks, like how a lot of younger wrestlers grew up as wwe marks
etc

>>18766181
This is the scene of a human decanter..

>>18766354
I'm not much for poetry

So true
All the performers are faggots and the women who try to replicate the male workers are all bad at their jobs

>>18766195
Because they can't big dawg. You sound ugly as fuck

>>18766171 (OP)
pretty much 97% of the women wrestlers look like drag queens and the men all seem like fags

>>18766418
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>>18766171 (OP)
That part.