By Justin Baldonado
Class-Kin 338I Section 48
I came across an article on the yahoo sports section and read about a description in which a high school state championship was forfeited due to the beliefs of a young man did not want to engage in contact with a female. His belief was stated that he believes that wrestling is a violent sport and shoving a woman's face down on the face mat is undignified. I thought it was strange that his reasons for not wrestling the girl was either it would be embarrassing if he had lost to a girl or if in any way it was sexual. His beliefs must of been very strong since it was the state tournament and his record was very triumphant. This is exactly where the female's roles in sports are unfair and unjust. In physical contact sports, very few women participate since the insufficient amount of participants engage and the lack of funding. Title 9 used to state that women were not allowed to participate in any physical sports due to health risk and male domination. However, nowadays women are allowed to compete and it is unjust and unsatisfying for women to win by either forfeit or default due to their gender. Women should not be deprived from their talented athletic abilities due to incompetent males who believe it immoral to be in physical competitiveness with the opposite sex. The male wrestler stated that he believes in the Bible that everyone must treat the opposite sex with respect, with that said; he believes that wrestling should not be a coed sport. I believe it should be addressed that some females want to be in touch with their physical rough competitive side such as wrestling, hockey, etc. and some males want to be in touch with their soft feminine side. In that sense, players should not hold back from one another if the same amount of ambition, talent, and prize is on the line due to opposite sex.
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This whole thing about him forfeiting is stupid!! If a woman is there to compete in wrestling, dont you think she knows that she is going to get slammed into the ground and knows not to take any contact sexuallY? If a girl were to take that contact sexually, she wouldnt be in that sport am i right??
If a girl wants to put herself up against a guy in a sport like wrestling, let her, its her choice, i can't comprehend why people dont and cant understand that.
Interesting though...
Lyndsay Eden
Kin 338i section 4779/5681
After I read this article on yahoo I had the complete opposite viewpoint. I am glad that Northrup stuck to his religious standards and forfeited the match. Even though Northrup does cause reason for dislike when he states of the situation being unfortunate. It may be that this is where women's roles in sports are unfair but this was just one state. All women know that when they want to be in a physical contact sport that there are few women participations overall. Yet for wrestling there are all women tournaments in the United States events. I do not believe it is unsatisfying to win a title of high achievement by forfeit because it was just one match. What about all the previous matches that brought the women to that level? We cannot just jump all over one incident and say it’s sexist or unconstitutional. This article is a good example of a possible blown out of proportion scenario. The girl wrester's, Herkelman, father did not see this as a "boycott" against his daughter. That forfeit just allowed one win for a female in that tournament. Herkelman made history but later lost along with another female, Black, who made it into the tournament as well, after just two matches. It is a good article to document history but it is not needed for controversy I believe.
V. G
Kin 338I.S6
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