I have had it with the double standard!
Now I am definable going out for the women's volleyball team.
Father: "Boy, you will put your sweaty palms all over my daughter's body or I'm going to take you to court."
Oh, the irony...
Before long, dating only people of the one sex will be seen as discriminatory against those of the other sex, and heterosexuality and homosexuality will be illegal, in favor of bisexualism, which is more politically correct...
'Connors, a former Episcopal president and one-time pastoral assistant for social justice at St. James Cathedral in Seattle'
Heh.
I'm shocked...SHOCKED...I tell you. Yet another idiot like the Pledge of Allegiance guy...using his children for political purposes.
Only, this one is so pathetic he actually encouraged his daughter to wrestle. I come from a background where wrestling is a major sport; I was very good friends with many wrestlers. Any father who not only encourages his daughter to do it...but also expects her to wrestle with these GUYS is one sick puppy.
Let me just say...there are some really disgusting health issues...I'll leave it at that.
It's wrong that boys are being forced to wrestle with girls.
Ironically, this is the kind of crap that helps advance misogyny, IMNSHO.
I just want to cry reading crap like this
Indeed. . . and incredible. . .and inescapable:
[As a seventh-grader, (Shiosaki) wasn't McMurray's best wrestler in her weight class, so she wasn't on the varsity squad. . .Still, she came home upset when Shiosaki got forfeits. She told her father she felt degraded, like an "object of lust.]
Tennis anyone?
I am just SOL. . .sick of Liberals.
These are my favorite lines of the story:
"If my religion says that once a year on a full moon, I had to get into a hit-and-run accident, I think the cops would take exception to that," he said. "That's an extreme example, but if you come into the public domain, you can't develop a policy that discriminates against people."
"What if, for religious reasons, people said they were not going to wrestle African Americans, or wrestle people of different religions?" she asked. "When you put it in those terms, you can see how the person who is not able to compete is being harmed."
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How about the boys that lose to the girls, can you imagine what happens to them. I wrestled in high school and there is no way that i would have wrestled a girl for that very reason.
When are boys going to be allowed on the softball teams? (maybe they already are, its been awhile since i have been to school LOL)
I have been a feminist since I knew what the word meant (but in the mold of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, NOT Gloria Steinem, thank you very much!). I am 100% in favor of Title IX. But boys and girls who have reached puberty should NOT be wrestling together. How can we tell boys that NO means NO, and then say, oh, except in wrestling, that is, when you are supposed to pin girls and make them submit? This is not a good thing to be planting in impressionable boys' minds. If there are enough girls in the sport now that boys are regularly refusing to wrestle them, then there are probably enough girls to just wrestle each other. Boys and girls can compete at the same meets; just not with each other.
You have to wonder about a father who would let his daughter wrestle with male counterparts.
I would bet that this idiot father would be the first one to file rape charges against the boy if he wrestled with the girl in the back seat of the car.
I don't like this at all.
Those people up in the Socialist State of Washington have gone completely nuts.
GIRL WRESTLER: Should girls and boys should be able to wrestle on the same mat?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1304453/posts
All this clown will end up doing is convincing the Christian schools that they need to pull out of the wrestling program altogether.
Which might be his intention.
Some of these so-called 'secular' elements in America are getting crazy.
The guy ought to get his daughter to gain 400 lbs. and go for Sumo lessons in Japan...
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.
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
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.
I have had it with the double standard!
Now I am definable going out for the women's volleyball team.