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which_chick) wrote2025-01-17 10:00 pm
which_chick) wrote2025-01-17 10:00 pm
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When I was in grade school...
When I was in grade school, my brothers wrestled. I spent time at a ton of dual and quad meets on the weekends in the winter because if my two brothers and parents were going to be at the damn meet all day, I had to go too. It was before smartphones. There was nothing much to do but watch the fucking matches at the aforesaid meets when I was a kid. So, I did that. I also did a fair amount of wrestling on the living room floor with the brothers because they wanted someone to practice with. But there was no opportunity for me to wrestle in school because that was not a girl sport.
Wrestling for girls wasn't even available via a local-loophole like they let Mary Hinish play little league (she pitched) in 1980. Locally, nobody bitched and we were a tiny town that was never gonna be in the little league world series or anything. It was ok if she played because locally nobody cared. She did play softball in high school because they wouldn't let her play baseball, which she would have preferred. The explanation at the time was that "softball and baseball were separate but equal" and so there was no need for her to play baseball because she could play softball and that was the "same thing".
But wrestling was not done by girls when I was in grade school and it was not done by girls when I was in high school. There might be touching happening in wrestling or something and it wouldn't be appropriate.
You don't want to be groped, do you? Have you seen where they grab for some of those holds? What if a boy got fresh?
I know that's what people would say when I asked about it because I did ask about it and that's EXACTLY what the fuck they said. And I was made to feel ashamed and stupid for asking. Jesus Fuck, which_chick, how damn dumb are you? Girls don't wrestle, that's not a sport for girls, why would you even want to do something like that, what the hell is wrong with you? Yeah. It wasn't a particularly gentle negatory, is where I'm going with this.
I am seeing a lot of the wrestling girl (Amit Elor) on youtube shorts and stuff, and good for her. Good for her. I'm glad she got to wrestle and win gold medals and stuff. I'm glad that's an option for girls these days, at least in some places.
So I googled. How much of an option is it? The high school I went to does not yet have a girl's wrestling team, but the high school up the road does. And though there's not a girl's team at the high school I attended, at least my high school lets the girls wrestle on the boys team these days. Not ideal, but more than I had a shot at. Better than nothing.
I kinda wish it had been an option back when I'd been in school. Damn it all, I wasn't even allowed to try because I didn't have a penis. That still puts sand in my gears because they acted like it was some kind of reason and it was no reason at all.
Wrestling for girls wasn't even available via a local-loophole like they let Mary Hinish play little league (she pitched) in 1980. Locally, nobody bitched and we were a tiny town that was never gonna be in the little league world series or anything. It was ok if she played because locally nobody cared. She did play softball in high school because they wouldn't let her play baseball, which she would have preferred. The explanation at the time was that "softball and baseball were separate but equal" and so there was no need for her to play baseball because she could play softball and that was the "same thing".
But wrestling was not done by girls when I was in grade school and it was not done by girls when I was in high school. There might be touching happening in wrestling or something and it wouldn't be appropriate.
You don't want to be groped, do you? Have you seen where they grab for some of those holds? What if a boy got fresh?
I know that's what people would say when I asked about it because I did ask about it and that's EXACTLY what the fuck they said. And I was made to feel ashamed and stupid for asking. Jesus Fuck, which_chick, how damn dumb are you? Girls don't wrestle, that's not a sport for girls, why would you even want to do something like that, what the hell is wrong with you? Yeah. It wasn't a particularly gentle negatory, is where I'm going with this.
I am seeing a lot of the wrestling girl (Amit Elor) on youtube shorts and stuff, and good for her. Good for her. I'm glad she got to wrestle and win gold medals and stuff. I'm glad that's an option for girls these days, at least in some places.
So I googled. How much of an option is it? The high school I went to does not yet have a girl's wrestling team, but the high school up the road does. And though there's not a girl's team at the high school I attended, at least my high school lets the girls wrestle on the boys team these days. Not ideal, but more than I had a shot at. Better than nothing.
I kinda wish it had been an option back when I'd been in school. Damn it all, I wasn't even allowed to try because I didn't have a penis. That still puts sand in my gears because they acted like it was some kind of reason and it was no reason at all.