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Heh-heh. So there are some gentlemen in the making.
I remember watching a news clip about a girl who had sued her way onto a wrestling team in Albuquerque. They showed one of her matches. It was heartrending to see the emotions wrestling on the face of her opponent -- reluctance to wrestle a girl mixed with prurient anticipation of pinning her mixed with horror at the thought he might lose.
My recollection is that she didn't win many matches.
What is the father going to sue for? Does he think he can get a court to forbid the private school boys to forfeit their matches? Does he think he can the private schools to forbid their boys to forfeit the matches? Or is he simply out to get the private schools expelled from the league?
This is insane.
I heard a lot about the guy's daughter's rights, but not much about the boy's rights. Nevertheless, I would be shocked if the girl doesn't win in court. Seems withdrawing the wrestling team from the league may be the only option - that way everyone can lose out.
I would have wrestled the girl. Just to win a match. I always had to wrestle one weight class higher and nearly always lost since I was lacking size and strength (5-10 pounds can make a diff when you only weigh 115).
But no, bless those boys for not wrestling girls. I can't believe a girl could wrestle any boy her weight and win. You'd have to be a real spaz to be on a wrestling team and lose to a girl.
A couple of years ago a girl forced a team to let her play high school football. She got messed up really bad. Her parents sued to make it happen. They should have been arrested to child endangerment.
I currently play co-ed sports - for some sports, it would not be a problem (soccer, softball/baseball, volleyball, etc.). But wrestling, football, or hockey? That is plain nuts.
I havd no problem with coed non-contact sports. My sons are enrolled in a coed soccar league. I played coed basketball in high school, and the only problem was the time a budding young felon on the other team found a reason to knee me below the belt in front of the girls. Then again, maybe some of the girls took away a useful object lesson on the effectiveness of the most commonly taught rape prevention technique.
But contact sports? Especially one like wrestling? As a hormone-charged teenager, I would have been thrilled to have society's sanction to physically force a girl to lie face up underneath me. Forgive the indelicacy, but that's what wrestling is, isn't it? Fortunately, society did not give its sanction to any such thing at that time. Real adults were running things, not the Peter Pans that seem to dominate the boomer generation.
With due respect to the late pontiff, ours is not a culture of death, but a culture of impotence. The flood of prurient material and compromising situations in current culture has the perverse effect of dulling the normal sexual response.
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