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To: GunRunner

I have a real problem understanding why a girl would want to wrestle...or for that matter parents who would allow their daughter to do so.

My son wrestled so I do have some understanding of the sport and disagree that this contact made is not grouping or foundling or whatever word you want to call it. It IS a “contact” sport....where hands reach to all places for the holds. Why would a parent even think of putting their daughter in that type of contact sport!


36 posted on 02/17/2011 10:59:26 PM PST by caww
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To: caww
I don't know why a girl would want wrestle either, but if she can get on the mat and beat guys, then I don't see the rationale for telling her she can't.

If a man and a woman grappling with each other to score points in a match has some sort of sexual connection, then one could make the argument that two men grappling with each other is somehow 'gay' (which my non-wrestling friends would occasionally raz me about).

This isn't a 'contact' sport in the same way football or boxing is.

The risk of injury due to the strength difference in men and women is much lower.

39 posted on 02/17/2011 11:14:46 PM PST by GunRunner (10 Years of Freeping...)
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