These days it’s taken as an article of faith. It’s almost like a magic trick, the way it flips a switch in our brains.
You turn on the TV (or, let’s be real, click on a video during the day’s endless scroll) and see two people punching each other in the face with bare fists? That’s a problem. That’s vulgar, somehow. Depending on the setting, it might even be a crime.
But, you take those same two people and put them in gloves? Then, something changes. Whether they’re boxing gloves or the smaller, more tactile MMA gloves, it doesn’t matter.