Posted on 01/21/2018 4:12:25 AM PST by SandRat
I’m still waiting for them to allow boys on the girls volleyball or swim teams, since we are equal and all that...
At the time we told them that, they were in elementary/jr high and we didn’t attend every tournament. It’s a no win situation for a boy, so we wanted them to know ahead of time that it’s ok to choose not to wrestle a girl. That’s what I meant by permission-we’d back them up if the coach got after them. Forgive me for writing in the present tense. Our youngest son hasn’t started wrestling yet (we wait until about 4th grade) so I was thinking of him in a couple of years.
Different situation as they got older-our son wrestles at 182/195 not many girls at that weight:).
My son wrestled for 11 years from first grade thru his senior year in high school. He wrestled the upper weights and only had to wrestle two girls in his career. One was tough but the other was a push over. It’s rare in Michigan to see a girl at the high school state finals actually place, but they are always the fan favorites.
Same here-a girl makes it to the state tournament and it’s front page news on the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Seems that often girls who wrestle have dads who were wrestlers and no brothers.
How much real estate on the female wrestler would be off limits, either by rule or by chivalry? Quite an advantage. And how soon will some poor young male wrestler’s life be ruined by his female opponent making a groping claim?
Best defense against that, Eat Lots of Garlic and don;t brush your teeth. hehehehe
OH, ... I forgot, ... and a bad case of personal Felicitous (FARTS).
lol
She was injured in her first meet? Shocked!
I would not have told them to think about a forfeit but to wrestle on like they were against another guy. If the girls want to get in the ring, let it be a genuine experience for them.
Was She GASSED?
It goes well until a Muslim refuses to wrestle one and then the patriarchy becomes acceptable again
Titties aren’t the only things that will be grabbed.
It is really a no win for the guys:
You win, “Oh, big deal, you beat a girl.”
You lose, “Oh, you got beat by a girl? Ha Ha Ha, loser.”
“But, she got injured early on.”
Count on more of this.
If they’re really competing within the same weight class, the guys will have more muscle mass.
Broken collar bones will be the norm for the girls.
That being said, I view wrestling as a good form of self defense, and I would encourage girls to take up such a sport.
Getting away from the topic of wrestling though, I talked with a woman who was very proficient in karate. She was working with a guy who had a tendency to put his hands on her and she warned him more than once to stop it. So, one time he grabbed her and she broke his arm. The supervisor laughed at the guy and told him he should have known better.
Not only do they have more muscle mass, we know that boys have more upper body strength. I would expect that if they let them compete with boys that they would absolutely have a higher rate of injury.
Exactly.
Whenever this comes up, the stories come out. “Oh, there is this girl who is an expert in [fill in the blank here] who could kick the boys asses in [again, fill in the blank].
This is really stupid. Girls are physically weaker, less aggressive and less structured for combat and the sports and games that simulate combat in one way or another.
The physical rivalry that some want to see between the sexes will end one way - humiliation for the girls and backlash against their male competitors.
Why add to this mess. Girls should be girls.
I don’t remember, but that WOULD have been truly funny.
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