I was on my way to work the other morning and I heard a story on the radio about a high school boy who forfeited a wrestling match in which he could have made it to the state level. The reason behind this decision? He was set up to wrestle a girl. I found a few articles about it online because I was curious as to why someone would give up a state title just for that reason. The article stated that he refused to wrestle her out of religious beliefs because he said that he gets violent when he wrestles sometimes, and he didn't believe it would be okay to wrestle a girl. Is this really the reason? Because if she is a wrestler on the high school team, I'm sure that she can handle her own because there are not too many female wrestlers out there and I'm assuming that she had to practice with boys. Or what would happen if she won? Would he still be the man that everyone thought he was...because he did have a pretty good record from previous matches? I'm not sure if I believe that this was all done for religious reasons, but maybe instead what society has taught him about manliness.
Boy Forfeits to Girl
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I think this is a really good topic. I find it interesting that boys are taught not to hurt girls because they are "weak". So in a way by the boy forfiting he is doing it because he does not want to hurt a girl and be looked down upon.. Yet if he did fight the girl and she won, the boy would be looked down upon also, because then he would be looked down upos. Which is bad for a guy, but way worse for the girl, because it was her sex that made this whole situation start. Very interesting!!!
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