Posted on 02/18/2011 7:24:48 AM PST by mattstat
In Iowa, girls can now wrestle with boys—and not just in cars in the parking lot at the Friday night dance. But in the rings and on the mats. The news reports that one young man refused to wrestle with his female opponent in the State final. He did so because he was a gentleman of the Old School. We commend him. But his forfeit allowed the girl to “win,” thus beginning an accumulation of statistics showing equality between girls and boys.
Of course, at the distant end of the 1970s at good old St. Mary’s High where yours truly matriculated, allowing boys to wrestle girls would have produced a surge of enrollment on the wrestling team. But today’s youth are more in tune with the near desperate desire for equality, it having been inculcated in them in every class in every grade. So most will play along.
However, that pesky boy-girl dimorphism will haunt equality efforts. In that same Iowa tournament, the only other girl lost her match with a boy not as reticent as his teammate. Yet equality must be had! So how long before the first sexual harassment charge which will be used to cancel a boy’s win? How many new rules—in football, basketball, wrestling, and on and on—will be instituted delineating just how hard, when, and especially where a boy may touch a girl? These rules will be implemented not just because some women hate the idea of boys touching girls, but to increase the advantages of the girls whose biology otherwise limits them.
Constraining and restraining boys thusly will, of course, bring the object of desire, but it will also hurt the sports themselves. Who would want to watch football game where the boys are not allowed to tackle the girls? Or a wrestling match were the boys must maintain a strict distance between his hands and most of the girls’ bodies?
Remember folks: it was predicted here first.
LOL.
I googled the quote and the first hit brought me back to my own posting.
Go figure.
Some day, maybe I will be credited with this quote.
That’s one way to fame!
The dominant educational theory today is to treat boys as if they were dysfunctional girls.
Lose/Lose situation for the boy.
If he wins, he is a loser for beating a “girl”, and if he loses, he was beat by a girl, try living with that in High School. I have to agree with him, dont wrestle.
Based on wrestling moves I’ve seen or just heard about, if those things were done in any other venue, the guy would be charged with sexual assault. It is simply not appropriate for boys and girls to wrestle on the same team.
The ‘libbers’ will not rest until every gal has a penis and no tits, and every boy has a period.
There is no rest for the ‘libbers’ until every gal has a penis and no tits to go bad and every boy has a period.
Sparring - yes.
Competition - no.
YMMV on that.
I think the young man was being very practical. It’s kinda hard to wrestle with a gal without getting a stiffy.
good for him. the whole “equality” thing is a scam and at worst, deadly.
before i was deployed to iraq in the army, i had to go through “combat lifesaver” training. one of the drills was to pick up your buddy (in smoke and with a soundtrack of shooting and bombs going off) in the firemans carry and run 50 yards, and put him over a 4’ tall wall. the two females in our class were paired up and given a stretcher. I though “gee, i hope if i get shot her friend is there with the stretcher”. (fortunately, I got home without being shot).
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