Posted on 11/12/2013 1:06:25 PM PST by ConservativeInPA
The quote i was replying to was:
“Girls should compete with girls, boys should compete with boys.”
There was no specific reference to touching in that comment.
If you don’t want your children to play in a contact sport that allows touching opposite sex players, then it is on you to pull your kid.
Soccer and field hockey are both contact. Swimming requires children to wear minimal clothes.
Everyone has their own personal limits. We can’t allow every individual to dictate there moral line on everyone or we will have an American Taliban.
As you can read here, the people that are closest to the sports have the least worry about coed players.
Wait until they’re 16.
First total domination 13-1 match ending with the male wrestler sporting the Abominable Woody, and it will be lawsuits by the singlet-ful.
Wait until someone accuses him of ‘grinding it in’ late in the match.
It’s a stupid idea - plain and simple.
Just have boys and girls wrestling, and leave it at that.
Here’s the thing - it’s the same for all of these situations:
When I was college age I didn’t mind playing touch/flag football with the girls...provided they did not ask or expect special treatment for being girls.
One winter a bunch of us were playing touch in the Kibbie Dome on the University of Idaho campus. I played D-line and was beating the guy across from me like a drum, so they decided to put a girl across from my, expecting my generally gentlemanly nature to slow my roll...BAD MOVE! It had been a while since I’d played any kind of football, and I LOVED the contact, and my high school coach taught us that there are no gentlemen on the football field. On the sidelines, on the street, in class, on campus - we’d darn well better be gentlemen, but on the field we were to be brutes.
Well, I beat that female opponent like a drum on a rented mule led by a red-headed stepchild. A gracious, godly couple in town opened their home to all the college aged kids in the local church. After this particular game, some of the girls complained to the lady of the house about how rough I was. LOL - her response was, “Good for him! You were playing football weren’t you?”
ANYHOW - if you want to play the game and are willing to take your licks like everybody else - I have no problem, except I think most girls (and their parents) would be foolish to compete with the boys.
How does the coach teach a move to a girl? JUST LIKE HE DOES TO A BOY! If she doesn’t like the close contact...go play volleyball or tennis or softball.
How does a boy wrestle a girl? JUST EXACTLY LIKE HE WRESTLES A GUY! Forget about the “parts”, Just get in there and put the hurt on your opponent.
Now guy cheerleaders? Now THERE’S the deal! Tell be those guys don’t have a great time!
You missed the “grab and squeeze body parts”. There is a difference in the competitions you listed and full body contact that occurs in wrestling. My son wrestled in middle school and his twin sister was a team manager. I’m glad that is as close as she got to wrestling.
To compare those who don’t think boys and girls should be grabbing each other to the Taliban is a little warped.
So now you’re going to be coy and pretend you didn’t aim that at me? It’s not cute when 0bama plays that game and it’s not cute from you either.
Haha, ok, looks like they can be competitive in the weight classes around 100 pounds too. Let me know when they win something in a class with a guy that weighs enough to actually have some muscle mass.
I didn’t aim my original post at you, when I get a thought I want to post I click the nearest REPLY button and start typing.
As I said, there was no insult in the post. There was nothing insulting there, period. There was nothing in the post warranty such a hostile response even if I did “aim” it at someone.
when the immoral ones are the ones doing the dictating, what do we have?
It was highly insulting, right?
:p
Girls wrestling in high school. is nothing new. I am surprised it is still an issue. I wrestled in HS back in the ‘80s and there were two girls on my team. I see a lot of uninformed conjecture in this thread. When I wrestled a girl the last thing on my mind was T&A. You just didn’t want to lose to a girl and winning the match is all you think about!
I wasn't on the wrestling team, but I always let the girl pin me.
It’s not insulting to say that FReepers are buying into the leftist agenda? Okey dokey.
What a screwed up country...
Equating someone who doesn’t think boys and girls should wrestle each other with the Taliban is indeed highly insulting.
I've coached hockey for years (travel and house leagues). When I coached Peewee, we had several girls who played on the team. They were decent players. By the time the kids were in Midget, not a single girl was left.
If you honestly think you can compare the abilities of 10 year-olds (where girls mature slightly faster) and teenagers (after boys have hit puberty), you are delusional to the point of ridiculousness. High-school-aged girls are inferior at EVERY sport they would compete against boys in. Even the best girl player would struggle to compete against the mediocre high school age boys. You are letting your ideology blind you to reality.
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