This Kid is a class act!

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i'm thinking it was a no win situation for this kid. he fights her and wins, aw, you beat up a girl. loses? oh man....
so he doesn't fight at all, and still has people on his case.

So he's basically a chicken. Either way, he forfeited because he was afraid of what people would think of him. You're right, he's a hero.

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

So he's basically a chicken. Either way, he forfeited because he was afraid of what people would think of him. You're right, he's a hero.

You think he was afraid of what people would think of him and that made him not wrestle? If he had just wrestled, win or lose, that would have been the status quo. You don't enter into the realm of what other people think until you do something controversial, which he did by walking away from the match.

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by NTamm1215

You think he was afraid of what people would think of him and that made him not wrestle? If he had just wrestled, win or lose, that would have been the status quo. You don't enter into the realm of what other people think until you do something controversial, which he did by walking away from the match.

Read Danzig's post and then you'll understand what I said.

The point is there's nothing wrong with wrestling against a girl in a competition. There was no reason for him to forfeit and the religious reasoning is hilarious.

[Princess Doreen]

Good for him!

It's just so ridiculous. Feminism is a parody of itself at this point.

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

Read Danzig's post and then you'll understand what I said.

The point is there's nothing wrong with wrestling against a girl in a competition. There was no reason for him to forfeit and the religious reasoning is hilarious.

I read what she wrote and I read what you wrote and it looks like you're both inferred something that wasn't really apparent from the story we're getting. There was nothing about whether he was concerned about winning or losing, nothing about him or his family caring what anyone thinks, just the religious objection. Based on their respective records this year, I can't imagine he backed out because he was afraid to lose.

[dalakhani]

I agree with Nick's take. I think he should be commended for standing up for what he believes. I would imagine that a likely state wrestling title would be hard for a boy his age to pass up.

Regardless of what we believe, good for him for following through on what HE believes.

[Sightseek]

This kid is so uptight he's doomed the first time he ever does have that "familiar way," of contact with a female.

Yeah he's uptight. If he wrestles her and she's injured because of it the feigned outrage brigade will be out in force for the kids head.

It's a no-win situation for him that shouldn't be a situation to begin with. He's in this situation because people are bullies and humongous as.sholes who push the rules to the point of absurdity.

Boys and girls should not be wrestling each other competitively. It's stupid. If she wants to be a big butch and eat mad ***** that's fine.

I actually hope she gets paralyzed and her parents kill themselves over it.

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

I agree with Nick's take. I think he should be commended for standing up for what he believes. I would imagine that a likely state wrestling title would be hard for a boy his age to pass up.

Regardless of what we believe, good for him for following through on what HE believes.

exactly

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

So he's basically a chicken. Either way, he forfeited because he was afraid of what people would think of him. You're right, he's a hero.

i don't recall ever saying he was a hero. why do people think things are either one extreme or the other?? at any rate, i believe my point was that this kid was never going to please everyone regardless of what he did. wrestle, get grief. don't wrestle, get grief. apparently he decided to please himself, and to hell with whoever didn't like it.