1 year ago6 points(+0/-0/+6Score on mirror)1 child
Oil wrestling is Greek (and broadly balkan, mostly thracian). It has nothing to do with turks or Islam, and western turkey used to be Greece.
It's not gay at all, it's just supposed to be difficult (the reason for the oil). Back when it was created, everybody didn't scream about "homoeroticism" and shit. Now everyone has to shoehorn faggotry into everything.
Can't speak for what the intentions of modern turks are, but oil wrestling isn't Turkish and isn't gay.
It's impossible to do this sport without looking gay, but there isn't a special connotation. Even in turkey this is done right next to the border to Greece.
Greek wrestling already looked gay as fuck, even though it wasn't (modern Greco-Roman wrestling is NOT greek wrestling). So throwing in olive oil didn't really up the ante much on that front, it just made it significantly more challenging.
It's not gay at all, it's just supposed to be difficult (the reason for the oil). Back when it was created, everybody didn't scream about "homoeroticism" and shit. Now everyone has to shoehorn faggotry into everything.
Can't speak for what the intentions of modern turks are, but oil wrestling isn't Turkish and isn't gay.
It's a traditional European martial art. Greeks also still do this. Hell, the Greeks did it naked back then. The ottomans added the trousers.
https://www.akispapadopoulos.com/en/traditional-greek-oil-wrestling-w-58.html
It's impossible to do this sport without looking gay, but there isn't a special connotation. Even in turkey this is done right next to the border to Greece.
Greek wrestling already looked gay as fuck, even though it wasn't (modern Greco-Roman wrestling is NOT greek wrestling). So throwing in olive oil didn't really up the ante much on that front, it just made it significantly more challenging.