“My take: get over it.”
My take of your take: shut up. It will always and forever be a lose-lose situation, no matter how you pretend to feel about it.
Oh, and also grappling with girls is unseemly.
It is. My son wrestled in high school. He had to wrestle a couple of ladies. The girls are good in the lower weight classes and at the freshman level with their lower bodies. Once the guys start to mature and gain upper body strength it is over for the girls.
I watched a good hockey player in 9th grade get beat by a girl. Well you know how that went.
I always told my son. She is stepping on the mat knowing full well what is going to happen. Now BEAT her. Period.
“Oh, and also grappling with girls is unseemly.”
My take also. I would not want my boys wrestling with girls, or vice versa. And the parents of this girl? I don’t care who they are. I would not want my daughter participating in a sport where men’s hands were all over her.
Years ago I had a neighbor who had a beautiful daughter, who was perfect for modeling. She did not go for it, because “everyone’s hands are always all over your body”.
The author does seem to have relished losing....
Just my opinion of course.
So is grappling with boys. I consider wrestling to be unseemly, period.