high school wrestling: girls on boys' teams

Flying Spaghetti Monster · July 6 2012, 08:32 AM

What do you think.. should girls be on boys' teams?

RoJoHen · July 6 2012, 06:35 PM

If they weren't, they probably wouldn't have enough girls to have their own team.

Mr. B · July 7 2012, 10:09 AM

Dumb idea. A lot of boys are understandably reluctant to wrestle a girl. I know I wouldn't, at least not in public. Common sense is just as important as "equality."

Carcazoid · July 7 2012, 10:44 AM

No.

There are better ways of getting girls to roll around with you.

B.J. · July 7 2012, 08:54 PM

They did it in "Diary of a Wimpy Kid". Not that *that* means anything.

iguana_tonante · July 7 2012, 09:44 PM

Are we having this whole debate again?

If the girls can compete fairly in boys' team (i.e. there isn't a large difference in body mass and muscle power), then I don't see any reason why they can't compete with them.

Gender segregation in sports is needed to ensure that female players get a fair competition in activities where different size and muscle power give male players a significan advantage.

Not because some boys could get uncomfortable touching boobies. Get over it.

Alidar Jarok · July 8 2012, 12:24 AM

RoJoHen wrote:

If they weren't, they probably wouldn't have enough girls to have their own team.

Pretty much this. If possible, having them separate makes sense, but it isn't always possible.

JarodRussell · July 8 2012, 01:03 AM

Of course.

One reason why we have to endure all this gender inequality shit, and people struggling with being uncomfortable with the other sex, uncomfortable with perfectly normal physical contact, is because we separate them for a very long time.

When there's no unfair physical advantage, then there's no problem. And then again, there are lot of sports where all that physical disadvantage talk is just a pretended argument.

Dumb idea. A lot of boys are understandably reluctant to wrestle a girl. I know I wouldn't, at least not in public.

Why? What's the problem?

There are better ways of getting girls to roll around with you.

Are you really that sexually insecure that you can only think of that one?

Gender segregation in sports is needed to ensure that female players get a fair competition in activities where different size and muscle power give male players a significan advantage.

Not because some boys could get uncomfortable touching boobies. Get over it.

Exactly!

Mr. Laser Beam · July 8 2012, 01:26 AM

Mr. B wrote:

Dumb idea. A lot of boys are understandably reluctant to wrestle a girl. I know I wouldn't, at least not in public. Common sense is just as important as "equality."

O RLY?

tighr · July 12 2012, 01:26 AM

iguana_tonante wrote:

Gender segregation in sports is needed to ensure that female players get a fair competition in activities where different size and muscle power give male players a significan advantage.

Luckily, wrestling is one of those sports that factors in size to the competitive nature. A physically fit athletic woman who weighed the same as I did would be a fair match. I wrestled in high school, and would have had no problem wrestling a girl in my weight class (at the time, 152). Shoot, a 152 lb athletic teenage woman would have been intimidating.

The reason most other sports are gender segregated is that the average female weighs nowhere near what the average male weighs.

Data Holmes · July 12 2012, 07:20 AM

All sports should be co-ed.

Roger Wilco · July 12 2012, 07:43 AM

No, that would make it impossible for girls to compete in mosts sports at all after puberty.

iguana_tonante · July 12 2012, 08:39 AM

Mr. Laser Beam wrote:

Mr. B wrote:

Dumb idea. A lot of boys are understandably reluctant to wrestle a girl. I know I wouldn't, at least not in public. Common sense is just as important as "equality."

O RLY?

Yeah, you won't find anything here which wasn't discussed the last time in that thread.

tighr wrote:

iguana_tonante wrote:

Gender segregation in sports is needed to ensure that female players get a fair competition in activities where different size and muscle power give male players a significan advantage.

Luckily, wrestling is one of those sports that factors in size to the competitive nature. A physically fit athletic woman who weighed the same as I did would be a fair match. I wrestled in high school, and would have had no problem wrestling a girl in my weight class (at the time, 152). Shoot, a 152 lb athletic teenage woman would have been intimidating.

The reason most other sports are gender segregated is that the average female weighs nowhere near what the average male weighs.

Yep, exactly my point.

clint g · July 12 2012, 02:54 PM

Seems like a sexual harassment lawsuit waiting to happen.

iguana_tonante · July 12 2012, 03:04 PM

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