The Argument for Girl-Boy Wrestling

christianitytoday.com/women ^ | February 22, 2011 | Caryn Rivadeneira

[freedom_forge]

I guess the general notion that girls should not compete in the boy sport simply because the boy might get aroused, have a fragile ego, or errantly/intentionally make questionable contact, are weak positions. Been fun.

"Errantly/intentionally" make questionable contact??? No, I don't think you ever wrestled. There's no choice but to grab her chest and crotch or inner thigh and then, with all your weight drive her face into the mat. She'll, of course, be doing the same thing to you if she can get an edge.

Perhaps neither of you will consider this sexual but how will the parents and students watching consider it?

Or, maybe worse, you can, from the bottom position, execute a sit-out and switch, driving the back of your arm into her more fragile shoulder joint, possibly doing real damage. Normally, this wouldn't be dangerous for wrestlers in the same weight class. But a woman's upper body is in a lower weight class than her hips and legs.

But later you can always go out on a date together and grab her chest and crotch and get slapped or arrested.

[justice14]

The poster, above this, who responded to your post hit the nail on the head. Wrestling isn’t like many other sports. Even football there is equipment over body parts. Like I said, I don’t mind playing sports with girls. I just don’t like playing competitive sports with girls. It’s just not the same in any aspect.

[SgtHooper]

I wrestled for years. You assume the girl’s parents are totally ignorant of these facts? As well as the audience? And of what importance is that anyway? As you would know, only the knowledgable audience typically attends wrestling matches.

The fact that she gets damaged in some way is irrelevant given that she willingly participated in the first place, and knows the risks. You seem to want to protect her more than the boy by preventing her from participating in the sport entirely, when it is her decision. What about the boys she beat?

[SgtHooper]

Like coed water polo. :-)

I agree generally with the posters on this one point to keep the sexes in separate sports, and too bad for those that can’t muster the teams. Any mixers, no surprises, so face the consequences.

[TigersEye]

When man pins woman, the objective is usually physical intimacy, even if doesn't end in sex.

LOL Must be nice to be eternally 12.

[TigersEye]

It wasn't the losers who were getting a sexual thrill. Just like straight men, there are some gay men who get a sexual thrill from physical domination of others.

Sounds like good motivation for the loser to try harder. I sure don't remember anyone, in all my school years, ever being intimidated by a queer.

[3niner]

I sure don't remember anyone, in all my school years, ever being intimidated by a queer.

Maybe not, but I have heard gays brag about getting turned on by wrestling. Both times, it was in the context of the gay wrestler succeeding with a move that had sexual overtones.

At the time, the bragging was not explicitly sexual, it was only suggestive, and nobody reacted overtly to it. It set off alarm bells in my mind, and I stayed far away, after that. Years later, it became common knowledge that both wrestlers were gay.

[TigersEye]

Years later, it became common knowledge that both wrestlers were gay.

Then I guess there wasn't a victim there was there? I get the feeling that you never wrestled competitively in school. It's one of the most demanding sports there is and requires a lot of discipline and requires a lot of endurance for pain even just from the effort you have to put into it never mind what the opponent can dish out.