WIBTA for paying to go see micro wrestling event?

For me, it feels like it is treating a group of people as a novelty. People with dwarfism have a long history of being framed that way in entertainment, and I don't think we've entirely solved that problem. The small group of performers benefit, but I'm more thinking about what it says about how people view different bodies than about those specific people.

I think it would be different for me if I were a wrestling fan in general, and I thought of it as just another category of wrestling, but I think some people go to these events who wouldn't go to other wrestling events, and I can't help but feel like that's feeding into the idea that the bodies of people with dwarfism are inherently entertaining. To me, there's a difference between finding all wrestling entertaining, and specifically finding micro wrestling entertaining.

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