If I could have wrestled with girls I would most assuredly have joined the wrestling team when I was in junior high school...
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Titty grab.
I started photographing high school and collegiate sports 20 years ago. There were girls and women wrestling back then. This not exactly news.
Married to a wrestling coach and mom to a high school wrestler.
We’ve always told our boys that they have our permission to forfeit to a girl and when my husband was a high school coach he told his team the same thing (not an issue in college).
What I added to my sons was that if they chose to wrestle a girl then don’t hold back one bit. Be as rough and aggressive as you can be, if she wants to be there then make her know what it takes.
Yeh just wait until they start accusing the boys of sexual harassment on the wrestling mats.
Can picture it now....He pulled a slick reversal and pinned her - but good......
How I pinned your mother.
I’m still waiting for them to allow boys on the girls volleyball or swim teams, since we are equal and all that...
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?
She was injured in her first meet? Shocked!
It goes well until a Muslim refuses to wrestle one and then the patriarchy becomes acceptable again
“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.
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.
-PJ
...so what’s the difference between sexual harassment and wrestling?
lawsuit waiting to happen. if i had a son on that team, he would be quitting immediately.
Bet the boy’s wrestling squad call it feel up time cupping to ensue.Not the greatest idea wonder about the coach’s reasoning and the mothers idea of it?.
“I like it, it’s a lot of fun,” Duncanson said. “I wanted to try something new.”