Posted on 05/09/2005 12:33:59 AM PDT by beaversmom
Edited on 05/09/2005 12:42:57 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Girls who wrestled for several Puget Sound-area middle schools this year easily won their matches against boys from two private schools.
The girls stepped onto the mat. Their opponents from Tacoma Baptist and Cascade Christian stayed in their seats. The referee then raised the girls' hands to signal they'd won by forfeit.
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You're quite right...Sign Me.....Ex-wrestler!!
Maybe they were taught that gentlemen don't put little girls in an armlock or leghold and force them to submit or hurt them - are you a wrestler?
Men wrestling women is just wrong, on a number of levels, and religion has nothing to do with it.
Wrestling well takes a certain amount of "killer instinct", of animal intensity.
I can certainly appreciate that psyching one's self out to put the hurt on a 13 year old girl might be a bit daunting to any man, "feminized" or not.
I have wrestled, and to put it mildly, one grabs certain areas, and finds one's face in very close proximity and contact with certain areas in the course of a match.
Idiot PC Crap! You train boys to not hit girls, not to treat them roughly, and then the idiots from PC lala land put girls on male wrestling teams and get mad if boys refuse to wrestle them. How much longer are we gonna put up with this crapola of either sex being interchangeable and no differences , etc.
Any excuse will do for a wimp.
There are just some people who were raised in such a way that they simply will not raise a hand against a woman (or a girl).
When I was in college, I took a Tae Kwon Do class, and the teacher insisted on co-ed sparring. It was something that I just wasn't capable of. I told the teacher that I wouldn't spar with a girl, but I'd be happy to spar with any of the guys. I was told to get on the mat with a girl, or I'd fail the class (1 credit). So, for a few weeks, I had to spar with both guys and girls.
I was very popular with the girls for sparring, as they got to use me as a human punching bag. All I'd do is cover up as best I could. I was also pretty unpopular with the guys as a sparring partner, as I got pretty grumpy being used as a punching bag by the girls.
After about 4 weeks, even though the teacher saw that I was capable of sparring with the guys and making some improvements, he refused to allow me to only spar with the girls, so I dropped the class.
Mark
Probably correct. Ain't it a shame?
Why would you think they would have dances? My Christian high school didn't.
It seems to me that these boys are using the forfeit in a manner somehat akin to the boycotts used during civil rights protests. They are essentially boycotting those matches that violate their principles. I see nothing wrong with that approach. They take the forfeit, lose the points, that's it. They are following the rules of the sport. When you get into "why" they are using the rules a certain way, then it's Thought Police mode. The girls don't have any "right" to beat boys at wrestling on the mat; the girls have a "right" to participate in the sport, by the same rules that govern everyone. Those rules allow forfeits.
THAT would be most amusing to watch. I'll bring the popcorn.
I think that's the real issue. No junior high school boy wants to lose to a girl and at that age. Up until the age of 13, my daughter frequently competed against boys the same age in full contact karate, and she won most of the matches.
I have had it with the double standard!
Now I am definable going out for the women's volleyball team.
Checked calendar...it's not April 1st...
This isn't from the Onion...
(Shakes head)
Theres obviously somebody else behind this. Those ACLU bas*stards want to bring everything under state supervision.
I mean, the girls get the win, and you still want to compel the boys to wrestle? You would hope the local wrestling association would rise up against this. I can't imagine this happening in my State, and I live in one of the most liberal of all of them (Md).
What is this crap? Since when do girls wrestle boys???
Can someone please explain to me why they don't just have a girls wrestling team?
Or would that just make too much damned sense?
Regards,
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