Where are you pulling this from? He didn't say she couldn't wrestle, he in fact he went out of his way to praise her making it into the tournament. She can wrestle whoever she wants to, and she can quit whenever she wants to, just like any other high school kid. But you want to take away
his rights.
Where were the tender guardians of female bodies when an ESPN reporter had a camera secretly filming her nude in her hotel room? Running to watch the video?
http://sportstwo.com/threads/144324...orter-nude-video/page3?highlight=erin+andrews Post 51 and 73 and 100 say hello.
Where were all you tender guardians of female bodies when we heard the chortling over Lara Logan being raped while reporting in Egypt?
http://sportstwo.com/threads/178295...s-ass-kicked-by-Egyptian-protestors?p=2538193 posts 35 and 36 say hello.
Beating up a woman is violence; engaging in a voluntary sport with a woman (or girl) is not. I mean, it's a pretty elementary distinction.
You're right, it's voluntary. And he volunteered not to, accepted the consequence of not doing so, applauded the girl for her accomplishment and moved on with his life.
Here's what going to blow your frickin' mind...your characterization of him as a sexist jerk lacking team solidarity seems that you're advocating forcing a 16 y/o boy to have unwanted touching, groping and "wrassling" with someone he doesn't want to. That seems pretty close to an advocation of sexual harassment at the least, and rape at the extreme. Maybe he just should've succumbed to the peer pressure and done it anyway, huh?
I don't know this boy and I really don't know if he truly believes that having a penis means he has a god-given right to make decisions about what women/girls can do, or if he's just a coward afraid of losing to a girl and using god as an excuse.
Of course in your world it can't be any other option, like, you know, what he actually said?
"I have a tremendous amount of respect for Cassy and Megan [Black] and their accomplishments. As a matter of conscience and faith, I do not believe that it is appropriate for a boy to engage a girl in this manner."
What about the impact on others? This boy did not just forfeit a match, the whole school did. What if this forfeit keeps them from competing for a state championship? Does he have the right to decide for the school?
You're right...we should all worry about who wins in sports instead of doing the right thing. That's what
I hope our young people get out of HS competition.
But I do think he's a sexist, a jerk, and lacking in team solidarity. And in for a rude awakening later in life when he learns that guess what, he WILL have to compete against women and some are going to be better than him.
I'm fairly certain that, later in life when he's "competing" with women, he won't be forced to grope someone he's uncomfortable with groping. And if told he has to, he's able to quit his job. And if that makes him a sexist jerk in your book, I'm assuming that he'll bear in mind that you don't share anything close to his worldview of love and respect for all and will therefore count you as another person to pray for, like I do.
