Posted on 02/18/2011 10:36:48 AM PST by BenLurkin
Wrestling isn't fighting. If it were, women would have a better chance of winning.
Wrestling isn't fighting. If it were, women might have a better chance of winning.
There is no legal 'hitting' in wrestling. I've seen situations where your 'ever' certainly didn't apply as well.
You would have “punished” her?
Whatever.
Mixed gender wrestling still normalizes that it’s ok to get physical with women and that should not be encouraged.
Thanks for acknowledging your lack of knowledge on the sport.
Mixed gender wrestling still normalizes that it’s ok to get physical with women and that should not be encouraged.
I don't think HS girls should wrestle against males. But since it isn't illegal if the girls want to take their lumps, I'm ok with that.
I guarantee you I would NOT have risk my years of hard work and a state championship to let some girl have the win. I would have punished her - in the hopes of her never, ever, ever wanting to wrestle again.
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And boy o boy howdy, that would have made you feel like a real man, eh? Intentionally inflicting injury such that she would never do that again, huh?
On one hand, we have a real man (the kid who didn’t wrestle due to his convictions - whether I agree with them or not) and then we have you, the kind of man who relishes teaching women a lesson when they go places you don’t think they should go.
I knew you don’t hit in Greco-Roman style wrestling.
That is beside the point. It still normalizes physical combat contact between males and females.
Good for you, that's progress. The story isn't about GR wrestling. This is the HS tourney, folkstyle where there is no hitting either..
Just a couple of thoughts.
1. I never liked wrestling when we had to wrestle in physical education class in high school. I have no interest in touching other guys in close quarters. I’ll leave that to those who enjoy that sort of thing.
2. I would much rather wrestle a female...they smell better. Would even let her win to avoid having to wrestle a guy.
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