Sports
Related: About this forumLunabell
(7,309 posts)How can anyone tell you how to feel about something? That's not how it works.
a kennedy
(34,707 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(11,699 posts)a kennedy
(34,707 posts)LakeArenal
(29,949 posts)Srkdqltr
(9,037 posts)Teacher, parent or just someone who would like to watch?? Need more information .
a kennedy
(34,707 posts)sports, and its just now been introduced as a sport in girls high school sports.
Srkdqltr
(9,037 posts)Girls/women can do any thing they want to.
a kennedy
(34,707 posts)boys and men sports.
Ya know a sport that wasnt started for guys and men. JMHO. Although that double Dutch jumping rope sport is pretty much dominated by young women.
Love that.
Srkdqltr
(9,037 posts)we can do it
(12,959 posts)True Dough
(24,879 posts)I remember girls high school wrestling about 25 years ago in a few areas near where I lived at the time. I don't know for sure all these years later, but I don't believe any of those girls turned out to be serial killers. They are probably well-adjusted despite all that time on the mats.
What always concerns me, however, is men coaching high school girls teams. I'm sure 90% of those men are honest, upstanding citizens with no ill-intent. But we've heard so many stories of volleyball coaches, and gymnastics coaches, and basketball coaches and so on sexually exploiting their young female players. Wrestling, with its physicality, strikes me as a very vulnerable space for the young ladies with "handsy" male coach.
So should men not be allowed to coach high school girls sports? Of course they should! But I think at least one woman should be present during all practices and games to ensure there's no funny stuff taking place, or at least limit the opportunity.
70sEraVet
(5,040 posts)(You remember that game, with the big plastic mat with different colored circles?)
Less belicose.
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(13,648 posts)MomInTheCrowd
(339 posts)a kennedy
(34,707 posts)Rebl2
(17,129 posts)wrestling in high school, so I would feel the same thing as high school girls wrestling. I hate wrestling men or women.
madinmaryland
(65,611 posts)Your account.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(24,443 posts)Builds strength and cardio.
What's not to like?
MuseRider
(35,007 posts)then I think we should support them. Why not? I would think it is healthy for their bodies to build the strength it takes to do this. I am not a fan of it myself, my brother used to wrestle and I really did not like having to watch but I would have never tried to stop him either.
That is my feeling but you have to do your own.