Posted on 03/01/2011 9:40:00 AM PST by Kaslin
as a young man, and as a CHRISTian, he took the hit for the greater GOOD of the Lord...for that Im thankful...
as to the girl and her parents, what are they thinkin ??? i know that if/when my baby girl requests to wrastle with 15 yr old boys [either inside or outside of the ring], I'll not only say no, but "HELL NO !!!" and deal with the situation in a manner that protects her from her own naivete and hormones...
we dont even hafta go 'there' as far as the opportunity that some, if not most 13-17 yr old guys will seek in coed sports...
jethro could change a flat on the ole pick-up w/o a jack, and she could kick his azz...
“No.”
We have the correct answer. If girls want to compete with boys play tennis or poker.
Should Boys Be Wrestling Girls?
...only in the back seat of Dad’s ‘72 Oldsmobile.
but i completely understand yer 'situation' at 16...
I’m not sure, can you hit them with a folding chair?
What was “absurd” then is “the norm” now.
“What happens if the girl is losing, and claims an “inappropriate” hold of some sort? Could the guy be deemed a sex offender?
And wouldn’t a decisive victory make the guy look like a “brute” anyway?
Sounds like there’s no way for the guy to win.”
If the young men want to put a stop to it all they have to do is use any number of legal and/or illegal moves to hurt the girls enough to “dissuade and discourage” any future desire to wrestle.
If she doesn’t get it the first time a second or third might be required.
Do I want to see that done to them? Absolutely not, but when you put young men in a no-win situation like this something drastic has to be done.
In a weird sort of way, you just confirmed my point.
What happens when the boy and girl in the wrestling match get aroused and start banging away on each other on the mat? Gee, who’d a thunk it?
Cheap joke and very old.
Absolutely not.
Any father that allows his daughter to wrestle should be ashamed of himself. There was a girl in Illinois that played on the boys football team and actually died from an injury she suffered playing football. Men should protect their daughters.
>> Those of us who have wrestled (high school, in my case) know the answer: not a chance in hell. Wholly inappropriate.
I was paired off with a guy who got injured.
Nobody wanted more contact with girls than I at that age, but there’s no way in hell I would have wanted to wrestle competitively with them. I agree totally, but had they been around, I'd had wrestled them.
If she gets hurt, you’re the bad guy. Sometimes getting hurt is unavoidable, if I'm the bad guy for that, that's OK
If you touch her in the wrong place, you’re the bad guy. This is avoidable when the male has superior skills so it wouldn't have applied for me.
If she beats you, the other guys will never let you live it down. Never would've happened, but if it did, kicking the crap out of other guys to get them to shut up about it is typical boy behavior.
If you beat her, the win is thought of as a guy who beat a girl. There are many matches where you get someone unequal to the task, that's just the way it is, how you handle yourself in victory or defeat is what matters.
If you refuse to engage in it, you get ripped to shreds across the nation in print. Your family gets scrutinized, you’re religion gets trashed, and you are are thought of as a neanderthal. Unfortunately true for this kid, but he got to make that decision. I wouldn't have, after a season worth of work I wouldn't have surrendered the field to her
Thanks for your comments Xone.
In a word...No. Check out this clip of a 7-year-old national champion. He would destroy any girl he faced. If I were his dad, I wouldn’t want to put him in that position.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQnsQSRVZno&feature=player_embedded
Sort of like the the Klingons from Urainis.
The answer is no.
AND, Joel, you are FAR more a man than the pansies in your school district who are trying to force you guys into this.
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