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| 2 | Boy Forced Into No-Win Situation Abstains from Wrestling GirlI don't really see how your argument is relevant to the Iowa wrestlers case, in that she is one of those few exceptional women who made the cut. The standards are the same for male and female wrestlers; she had no institutionalized special treatment or separate standards. I agree that most men will outperform most women, and I agree that having separate standards for the same sport is deplorable. Neither of those are the case here. | /r/MensRights | 18/02/11 08:52 PM |
| 2 | Boy Forced Into No-Win Situation Abstains from Wrestling GirlYou are allowed to wear a cup, but most don't because it is restricting. You get all twisted up on the mat, and--since there are no blows--it's a net disadvantage to lose the flexibility. Edit: some wrestlers do, but I have seen many, many singlets and very seldom see cups. | /r/MensRights | 18/02/11 08:11 PM |
| 2 | Boy Forced Into No-Win Situation Abstains from Wrestling GirlGuys don't wear cups in wrestling; if you hook in between a male competitor's legs, you get the whole enchilada. | /r/MensRights | 18/02/11 08:05 PM |
| 2 | Boy Forced Into No-Win Situation Abstains from Wrestling GirlIf there is enough male interest (enough men per high school to field a team), there would likely be a separate team created. Until then, I don't see why you couldn't play in a typically-female but non-gendered sport. For female wrestlers, there are usually fewer than one woman per high school squad; there isn't enough interest to warrant the creation of a full new team. There are only 6000 female high school wrestlers as compared to 250,000 male high school wrestlers. If, suddenly, 200,000 wome… | /r/MensRights | 18/02/11 07:50 PM |
| 2 | Boy Forced Into No-Win Situation Abstains from Wrestling GirlNot in varsity wrestling. There is no girl quota, and she had to meet the same qualifications (placing in the qualifying tournament) as the male competitors. For this scenario, your argument is invalid. | /r/MensRights | 18/02/11 07:14 PM |
| 2 | Boy Forced Into No-Win Situation Abstains from Wrestling GirlBecause it's not a "boys team": it isn't a gendered sport. These aren't the Men's State Championships, they're the State Championships. | /r/MensRights | 18/02/11 07:13 PM |
| 1 | Boy Forced Into No-Win Situation Abstains from Wrestling GirlIt's high school, and she's in 3A (the highest). | /r/MensRights | 18/02/11 09:30 AM |
| 5 | Boy Forced Into No-Win Situation Abstains from Wrestling GirlIf they are his genuine beliefs, I agree that his decision is respectable. I am more upset by the supposed wrongness of male/female competition implied by the OP, and the idea that she didn't belong in States. I have nightmares about crossfaces. And cradles. He sacrificed a lot, but it was his sacrifice: it was in no way her fault and she should not be delegitimized because of it. | /r/MensRights | 18/02/11 05:28 AM |
| 2 | Boy Forced Into No-Win Situation Abstains from Wrestling GirlIt's not her fault they refuse to wrestle her. It also doesn't matter how the match is won, just that the match is won; a default or a forfeit counts as a win regardless of sex. | /r/MensRights | 18/02/11 05:21 AM |
| 1 | Boy Forced Into No-Win Situation Abstains from Wrestling GirlHer record was better than some of the boys in her bracket. Hell, her record is better than my brother's is and he qualified for states, too. If she wants to compete and is good enough to compete, why should she not? Because she has boobs? It doesn't matter if other girls don't want to do it: if she wants to, she should be able to. | /r/MensRights | 18/02/11 05:17 AM |
| 3 | Boy Forced Into No-Win Situation Abstains from Wrestling GirlAre you fucking serious? This girl qualified for States in Iowa, the biggest wrestling state in the country. She'd wrestled 33 matches during the season and lost 13 times (20-13 is a good record, obviously good enough for her to qualify for States). Did she sue the 13 people she lost to? Were they ostracized from the community? Did the government sue them? No. She's a valid competitor in a a male-dominated sport. If he couldn't handle the pressure of wrestling a competitor, he didn't deserve to … | /r/MensRights | 18/02/11 04:30 AM |
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