Then when they think you're being cheeky, they feel the need to follow-it up. Like they feel like you're so dense for believing in something fictional, they feel the need to hammer the point across. Some possible follow-ups you may get:
"The storylines make no sense" - Oh I'm sorry, I guess every TV show you watch has had a perfectly flawless story told start to finish and you've agreed with everything it's ever done ever.
"They don't really hit each other" - Are you telling me men don't normally whack each other eleven times in the head unprotected with metal folding chairs and drive each other's faces into piles of thumbtacks? Oh fuck off!
"Guys don't flip around in fights" - Bruce Lee would dare to call you a chicken shit and kick you twelve times in the balls in three seconds for that remark.
"Their characters are so fake" - So Robert Downey Jr. really was flying around in a metal suit all these years?
"It's Not a Real Sport" - I would venture to say that pro-wrestlers have more of a chance breaking their necks in the ring on a pile driver than softly trotting around a baseball diamond or throwing layups into a basketball hoop. You know, unless something blatant happens.
Is it really something worth saying? That's like pointing at a picture of Batman and saying "Batman's not real, you know." Like of course Batman isn't real, you nimrod, but thank you for pointing that out. Boy, I sure was confused on that. I don't get why people feel the need to point out that wrestling is fake when so many other things are fake. Like... wrestling's a show. Just like any other live-or-TV show. The term 'fake' is incorrect; 'scripted', 'pre-determined', 'staged' are terms that would moreso suffice, but those can also be designated to anything. What is it about professional wrestling that people feel the need to point out its illegitimacy moreso than other illegitimate things? Is it the fact it's presented as a platform of genuine competition? Hey, so is The Bachelor/Bachelorette, but if you buy into that then... well, I have some unsettling news.
You should go out of your way to really explain some of the finer details about pro-wrestling to them, see if they still believe you then that it's "absolutely fake". Have them look up "blading", "potato", "Owen Hart", the background of the "Montreal Screwjob", Mankind at King of the Ring 1998, Shawn Michaels' 1998 back injury and wrestling with said broken back at WrestleMania XIV that year... and what 'fake' fall he went through, and other legitimate wrestling terms and see if they think wrestling's so fake. It's entertainment, but with a twist of semi-legitimacy. There's always the risk that an athlete competing in the ring could get seriously hurt, or even die, just like any regular sport. A drastic neck or brain injury could easily happen on any complex move or series of moves. A wrestler could get hurt on a bad fall or taking a chair shot the wrong way, falling off a ladder, getingt set on fire (happened a couple times, look up Kane and his "inferno" matches), falling off the stage, through the ring, off the freaking titantron. "Jeff Hardy's 2008 Monday Night Raw Swanton". So many things about pro-wrestling make it both a show and for realsies. Granted, in all fairness, it is pretty cheesy with its storylines, characters and dialogues. Where professional wrestling is professional wrestling is in the ring, during a match. I think a lot of what people consider to be "professional wrestling" is when they're backstage talking to each other with sexy female wrestlers by their sides and saying stupid things to one another.
...and hell if they're still not convinced, if they still go out of their way to enlighten you as to the already well-apparent illegitimacy of a lot of the sports entertainment of professional wrestling, well then you can now go out of your way to enlighten them that there are a few other things that are also completely phony and made-up as well:
- Spider-Man
- Batman
- Superman
- The Simpsons
- Star Wars
- Star Trek
- Harry Potter
- Marvel movies
- DC movies
- Pretty much the idea of 'super powers'
- Dawson's Creek
- Saved by the Bell
- Family Guy
- F*R*I*E*N*D*S
- Seinfeld
- Santa Claus
- Heat index
- Wind chill
- The Walking Dead
- Vampires
- Frankenstein
- The Mummy
- The Wolf-Man
- The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- The Power Rangers
- Breaking Bad
- Doctor Who
- Pokemon
- Fifty Shades of Grey
- Digimon
- Super Mario Bros
- Game of Thrones
- The Legend of Zelda
- Star Fox
- O.J. Simpson's innocence
- Casey Anthony's innocence
- Dragon Ball
- Naruto
- Dungeons & Dragons
- Televangelists
- James Bond
- Much of "reality" TV
- Resident Evil
- Scientology.
...and then some.
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