Rather than face girl, wrestler defaults

[Ksandra]

Solution: make a woman's wrestling tournament?

This^ They said other states do, I hope this convinces Iowa to do it too.

[Alleya]

soon as its over dudes are like "HEY WAY TO BEAT A GIRL ROFLOLOL"

Wrestle her and win: lol dude you beat up girls

Wrestle her and lose: lol dude you got beat up by a girl

Don't wrestle her: lol you chickenshit

Moral of the story: sexist culture

[Darkevolution]

I've wrestled a few girls before in HS . It was extremely awkward going in since my whole team basically said "if you lose you'll be a pussy forever", but I treated it as if you want to play a men's sport then I will treat you as any other match. IIRC I pinned them all in the first round but they were really cool after talking to some of them afterwards. Most of them wrestled just to prove a point that girls can do it.

[Chun Liroy]

I've wrestled a few girls before in HS . It was extremely awkward going in since my whole team basically said "if you lose you'll be a pussy forever", but I treated it as if you want to play a men's sport then I will treat you as any other match. IIRC I pinned them all in the first round but they were really cool after talking to some of them afterwards. Most of them wrestled just to prove a point that girls can do it.

Counter productive

[TheTaru]

The girl on my high school's wrestling team was decent-looking/good at rassling, and her matches were why everyone went to the meets. The look of terror on the guy's face who just learned he had to wrestle her was priceless (well, $6) every time. I completely agree that winning or losing against a girl doesn't matter in that situation; it was hilarious either way. Either no one would applaud someone for beating her, or the other school's team would laugh at the guy who lost to her.

I think the kid in the article chose the least humiliating route, though I agree it shouldn't be that way.

[Plow]

I used to play soccer in a "semi-coed" league when I was little. Basically they let guys from 2 years below play with the girls, and my sister was 2 years older than me so it worked out easily.

Anyway... Bitches were mean. The coaches loved it though, cuz I played the exact same as with the guys, which made them have to face a lot more physical style of play than they'd normally get in practice and shit. They were fucking cheap and dirty though. (wow that sounds horrible)

[Dantrag]

In high school I did crew, which we'd race against the girls but it's not like mattered while we were at practice. We would normally have a men's 4 go against the woman's 8. We'd usually still win by a good margin. One time in the men's 8 at a regatta that was close to spring break we actually had a girl in our 8 and we still ended up taking 3rd /shrug.

[Kuya]

Don't ever play soccer with women...

[Alleya]

Don't ever play soccer with women...

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[Yugl]

In martial arts i was always taught that if you can't hit girls then prepare to get your ass beat for being a condescending bitch.

This. I don't feel bad at all.

[Max™]

I was wondering what sort of straight teenage boy would refuse an opportunity to roll around on the floor with a girl, even an ugly one... then I remembered this is wrestling, which means he obviously wasn't straight.

[Gregorio]

I almost had to wrestle a girl my sophomore year. I dropped 8 lbs and moved from the 160 weight class to 152 for the match and wrestled the kid on my team under me forcing him to bump up and wrestle her. He beat her, but got a chubby in the process. And she was disgusting. We called him redwood for the rest of his wrestling career (he was a red head).

[FNH]

When I was in high school we had a girl join the football team she didn't last too long, which was good because they allowed her full usage of the locker room and we had to dress outside.

[Blarg]

I would have respected her as a strong independent woman by wrestling her and to show just how much I appreciate what she is doing for her gender I would rub my erection against her as I pin her weak flimsy husk of flesh against the mat.

[quannum]

if skill and weight are equal, the man still has the advantage. call it sexist, but that's reality. sue the school for putting you in a lose-lose situation. not enough chicks for female wrestling? quit crying and declare yourself champ, win-win.

[Foras]

I would have respected her as a strong independent woman by wrestling her and to show just how much I appreciate when she is doing for her gender I would rub my erection against her as I pin her weak flimsy husk of flesh against the mat.

holy lol

[Headspace]

My roommate wrestled throughout HS and was telling me about this. He said he wouldn't have done it and it would've been extremely fucked up if the guy did. You don't wrestle a girl, because if you win you're an asshole, and if you lose, you lost to a girl.

I told him that's all such bullshit logic. The girl wanted to be treated as an equal, hence her wrestling with fucking men.

But better she continues to get reminded that she'll never be treated with equality before she hits the real world.

[archibaldcrane]

My roommate wrestled throughout HS and was telling me about this. He said he wouldn't have done it and it would've been extremely fucked up if the guy did.

So...the guy who wrestled the other girl in this tournament, or the 25-ish male opponents she wrestled in the regular season...oh man they're extremely fucked up!

Your roommate is a retard.

[Alleya]

Yeah you're not supposed to hit girls. You're not supposed to hit guys either. Contact sports are the exception to that rule in the case of guys.

Apparently making women the exception to the exception is not sexist somehow? And all over this tacit assumption that being a woman makes you somehow inherently disadvantaged in a match, despite the fact that you can beat male opponents with enough frequency to qualify for a team?

idk mang.

[Headspace]

So...the guy who wrestled the other girl in this tournament, or the 25-ish male opponents she wrestled in the regular season...oh man they're extremely fucked up!

Your roommate is a retard.

I kept telling him that she obviously wanted to wrestle, and that him backing out and putting an excuse behind it wasn't "admirable"

He kept calling me a women's rights hippy. Dude's extremely shut off.