Tuesday, 22 February 2011
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Wrestler Won't Get Violent with the Ladies
No one likes to lose. It's just a fact of life. I hate when my dodgeball team loses (which unfortunately, has been quite frequently this season). I hate seeing the other team bask in the glow of victory while sipping post-game victory drinks. I hate not making the playoffs and being relegated to the loser's bracket where you play "friendly" games instead of duking it out for the championship belt.
Losing sucks. Plain and simple.
But what happens when you don't even attempt to go for the W? One kid in Iowa decided a shot at the state title wasn't as important as something else.
Linn-Mar High School's Joel Northrup decided not to improve on his 35-4 record when he found out his first round opponent on Thursday was Cassy Herkelman, a female freshman with a 20-13 record. His reason for defaulting the match, giving Herkelman the victory, was a matter of faith. He said, "I have a tremendous amount of respect for Cassy and Megan [Black, a sophomore who lost her first round match] and their accomplishments. However, wrestling is a combat sport and it can get violent at times. As a matter of conscience and my faith I do not believe that it is appropriate for a boy to engage a girl in this manner..."
Pretty classy of a high school boy to admit his respect for the first two girls to ever make the Iowa state wrestling tournament. But, should he have dropped out because the sport "can get violent at times"?
Nope. I'm pretty sure the girls knew going into the season they weren't signing up for a non-contact sport. They were signing up for wrestling, a sport that can be traced back to the Trojan War. A sport defined as "two unarmed individuals [struggling] hand to hand with each attempting to subdue or unbalance the other." Squash and racquetball it's not.
Did Northrup do the right thing by going with his faith and forfeiting the match or was he afraid of the possibility of losing to a girl?
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I wrestled in high school and one of my teammates wrestled a girl. During the match he made her cry and the match ended when he broke her ankle.
Some men aren't comfortable being physically aggressive with women.
godfatherofgreenbay provides a GREAT example of why.Tee hee. Wrestlers make funny grunt noises.
I like that. If girls are going to wrestle, they should be wrestling only other women. I don't care how much feminist equality extends to anything else, some sports women are just no match to men even at the same height/weight category.
No. Also, girls shouldn't be on wrestling teams. Crying isn't allowed in sports and it gets rough. Little girl should've just done some extra credit in home-ec.
If a girl breaks her ankle, or gets seriously hurt, it's her fault for enrolling in a man's sport.
@starcrossedloversdivine@xanga - And that is why there is no such thing as gender/sexual equality. Males, females, men, women, transgenders, intersex are all too different from one another.
It was his call. If he thinks he made the right choice, that's what's important. I personally respect his decision and think he's incredibly mature for what he did.
It was his decision to make, so if he thought it was right for him then it was right for him.
In any case, I don't think girls and guys should be in the same competition. In almost all sports, men compete against men and women against women...
I commend him for his choice. I'd have done the same thing. I wouldn't want any "misunderstandings" if you know what I'm saying.
Certain non-contact sports, it shouldn't matter sex. Riflery. Bowling. Gymnastics. Volleyball. There should be weight/height classifications in some of those, but no reason to non-compete. Wrestling is a very physical sport. When a guy wrestles a girl, eventually he is going to grab a handful of boob or crotch. And that is on his mind all the time, and is distracting. She is eventually going to feel his package. And get teased mercilessly by the female classmates around her. Contact sports like basketball, soccer, wrestling, etc should be same sex only.
@SentimentalDoll@xanga - I agree.
*Xanga's Batman Out*
I absolutely agree with the young man's decision, it was right for him and his to make. To say he backed out because he was afraid of losing is rude and it belittles the sacrifice he made. He was a favorite to win the championship. His record stands on it's own, but if that doesn't convince you nothing I will say can.
Personally, I have a tremendous amount of respect for him and honestly I think he shouldn't have been put in that position to begin with. Full contact sports should be man-man and woman-woman.
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I personally think he was afraid of getting a boner.
Isn't "doing the right thing" up to the individual who is actually making that decision? Heck, I'm a girl and even I have that "I don't hit girls" mentality.
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