Parents taking issue with forfeits when boys don't join girls on mat

[DesertFox]

Girls who wrestled for several Puget Sound-area middle schools this year easily won their matches against boys from two private schools.

The girls stepped onto the mat. Their opponents from Tacoma Baptist and Cascade Christian stayed in their seats. The referee then raised the girls' hands to signal they'd won by forfeit.

But the easy victories didn't sit well with the girls, including Meaghan Connors, a seventh-grader at McMurray Middle School on Vashon Island. Her father, Jerry, is prepared to go to court over what he considers a clear case of sex discrimination.

For years, schools in the Rainier Valley League, including McMurray, have honored the ability of the two private schools to forfeit matches rather than have a boy wrestle one of the handful of girls on the public-school teams.

League President Dan Petersen said it was the same as honoring desires of other religious schools not to compete on certain days.

He noted that wrestling rules allow a forfeit for any reason.

"I don't care if it's a religious school or not," he said. "If a person chooses not to wrestle, they don't have to wrestle."

More (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002266666_wrestling07m.html)

[DesertFox]

So if one of these girls gets seriously hurt wrestling with a boy and, say, loses a breast (or, more likely, a nipple), then her idiot parents can sue for a fortune.

What a farce. These people need to get lives.

[Rink]

Boys shouldnt be 'wrestling' with girls.

Period.

[DesertFox]

Girls should rassle girls, boys boys.

In 2000 I had a female cadet who played football. By her junior year the coach was letting her play at the ends of games or in blowouts, and she was convinced he was sexist. I told her he was looking for all the players, including her. Boys hold back when they see it's a girl opposite them. That protects the girl, but on a football field the most likely time you get hurt is when you hold back. When you go all out your chances of getting hurt are much smaller.

She still insisted she was a victim of sexism.

[ConservativeYouthMovement]

Girls were never intended to wrestle, ever. Whoever decided they should was sexist for not caring if they got hurt. They were especially never intended to wrestle with guys.

[S-T]

What are they going to do, force the boys to compete? Political Correctness strikes again. This is BEYOND stupid.

[Wyatt_Junker]

Boys hold back when they see it's a girl opposite them.

I can promise you Fox. I wouldn't hold back. Not an inch. Not half a dozen inches neither.

I would go all the way.

[S-T]

Connors, a former Episcopal president and one-time pastoral assistant for social justice at St. James Cathedral in Seattle, believes religion should play a role in public life. "But there's a limit," he said.
Haw haw haw!

I completely overlooked that.

If that's not a perfect summary of this whole inane story I don't know what is. This is a perfect example of how people fall away from Christ when they get focused on things of this world. I would bet you don't hear Jesus or Christ mentioned at all on the average Sunday at this guy's former "church".

[EveningStar]

Connors, a former Episcopal president

Episcopal. Figures.

[Bluemoon_Rising]

Twilight Zone.

[The_RANDy_Corporation]

I have seen boys bashed and bloodied in wrestling, all within the rules and completely unintentionally.

And, come on, how do I say this, the boys have to wear those thin singlets, and with a girl on the mat, rubbing . . . well, you know . . . it would be terribly embarrassing for the boy to get a . . . a . . . . woody.